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I created https://plaintweet.com/ primarily for myself. I posted it on HN sometime back and many people visited it. It is completely free and doesn't use any analytics so I don't know how many people use it (if any). It runs on a $5 VM along with some other small projects, so it doesn't cost me much and hence the outcome doesn't matter.
I built a satirical social network called shlinkedin. It started as a way for me to learn elixir and make fun of thought leadership with my roommate, and has gradually gotten bigger. It’s all open source and a ton of fun to work on. Everyone is an alter ego (think Beff Jezos or Office Spider), and it’s hilarious to see how much people commit to the characters they create. And I can’t say enough good things about work…
I launched a stupid game last week: Let It Slide. (if you like Altf4/getting over it/painful games) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1778910/Let_It_Slide/ It was my first entirely finished project: gameplay, 2d elements, sounds, musics (but not 3d). I'm just proud I finished this project, having a tendency to get bored extremely easily and only motivated by new stuffs (oh a bird!)
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The title image is so reminiscent of Age of Empires ;). No harm there. Is it safe to assume that AoE series was an influence? As it appears to be targeted only for Windows, I will not be able to try it (on Mac). But the premise sounds good and pretty unique! Best of luck with it.
Thank you! Yeah absolutely it was influenced by AoE, more in a thematic sense rather than the gameplay which is more influenced by grand strategies and Total War. Come to think of it, there's really no reason I can't release it on Mac since it's Unreal Engine, apart from me not owning a new model that can run it. If the game's a success (hopefully!) it would definitely be worth getting one so I can build for it.
Title of the thread: "I don't care if this succeeds"
;) Anyway, best of luck, the idea sounds awesome! I've added the game to my steam list.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/singletab/hjohicao...
The gist of it is feedback on how you play videogames via comments on videos that you upload. This is really the tip of the iceberg but you can see it in action here:
I built a satirical social network called shlinkedin. It started as a way for me to learn elixir and make fun of thought leadership with my roommate, and has gradually gotten bigger. It’s all open source and a ton of fun to work on. Everyone is an alter ego (think Beff Jezos or Office Spider), and it’s hilarious to see how much people commit to the characters they create. And I can’t say enough good things about work…
HN hug of death. And well deserved, I had a great time with this one.
I think that specialised search engines are gaining ground, it has become easier to set one up, thanks to elasticsearch/lucene. They can be quite good, for a limited domain, and they don't have to invade your privacy in order to find out what you are looking for. I think that what is missing are tools like this, that would aid the discovery and use of these search engines. I hope that this will allow them to eat into the market from the 'low end'.
The projects source is here: https://github.com/mosermichael/duckduckbang
Unfortunately they don't invest too much into !bang operators at duckduckgo, however that's my input data...
The idea is to put the shortened links in social profiles to the content user want their visitors to visit or just use it as a URL shorten-er.