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DrawAFish.com Postmortem

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Re: DrawAFish.com Postmortem

#21

You can also upvote any fish without auth, limit is 20 votes per minute per IP POST https://fishes-be-571679687712.northamerica-northeast1.run.a... {"fishId":"xxxx","vote":"up"}

That's actually intentional desgin - I think you can like a fish a little or like a fish a lot, and therefore should be able to upvote/downvote to your hearts content :)

Re: DrawAFish.com Postmortem

#23

I wish there some screenshots of the vandalism. Here in Zurich there's a mural of maybe twenty dinosaurs (not accurate but something that looks like it would be in a children's book). One day someone drew a dick on every single dinosaur. Even the flying pterodactyl had a big dick hanging off of him. It was so puerile and primitive it cracked everyone up that saw it. No tags. No football club graffiti. Just dicks ever…

There's a screen shot of a certain site in the footnotes of the blog and if you visit it, you can probably find some screenshots in the 30-something page thread about OP's game.

Edit: yes, the site too terrible to name as evidenced by the reply to this comment becoming dead within minutes l-o-l

Re: DrawAFish.com Postmortem

#25

Great post-mortem, especially since it's a vibe-coded app. Curious if you were inspired by Lego's build-a-fish* exhibit at the Lego House? I visited recently and it is ridiculously addictive to see a fish you create swim with others :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYs3ne0HCwM

Oh! I hadn't seen this. I was more inspired by the St Louis aquarium (where you color a fish and it swims) and Google's Quickdraw (a memory from like 2016)

Re: DrawAFish.com Postmortem

#26
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Great project and a good post too, you write well and are funny. Would like to see more for my rss reader :-)

…if you had RSS…

I was 15 years old when they killed google reader, so can you blame me for forgetting about RSS?

Added :) https://aldenhallak.com/blog/rss.xml

Re: DrawAFish.com Postmortem

#29
I read the HN thread first, and the first comment I saw from the author was about AI nazi symbol detector they put in... I wonder how many orders of magnitude that comment increased interest in making offensive fish?

Later I saw images of the attacked site posted elsewhere and thought they were both predictable and hilarious.

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