CEO Simulator: Startup Edition

https://ceosimulator.vercel.app/

by atorok • 1 year ago

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code_martial• 1 year ago

I can’t watch the tutorial because YouTube insists on a sign-in. -_-

thih93• 1 year ago

Same here. Opening the tutorial video directly [1] in a different browser and with clear cookies worked for me.

I rarely see this login wall, usually it happens in combination with hn posts.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dSpE4wgQGnY

thih93• 1 year ago

It’s hard to read cards on mobile.

If I tap a card to read the full text, the card then covers other cards. If I tap on another card, it now covers the rest. And if I tap the original card to remember a detail from the description, this now plays the card.

Edit: Looks like clicking anywhere else “deselects” the active cards - this way it is possible to read the description of all cards at any time without playing any.

MIC1323• 1 year ago

You can tap off of cards to shrink them back.

0wis• 1 year ago

But then you choose it. I misselected several times

atorok9• 1 year ago

I modified the behaviour so that tap and hold will straighten the card and magnify it. When you release it just goes back to the original position. Short tap plays the card.

ipnon• 1 year ago

It’s hard to believe you used to be able to get a normal job at a local company in your hometown and afford a house, car and children working 40 hours a week.

DANmode• 1 year ago

Q: Is working overtime mandatory if I don't have enough hours?
A: No, overtime is optional and comes with risks to CEO Mental Health.

hnthrow90348765• 1 year ago

Like the game, it's still luck. You can luck out and get a 20 hr/week job writing simple code from home and coast.

jjice• 1 year ago

It’s fully dependent on your hometown’s COL. my home town is a moderately sized, but mostly forgettable city in the eastern time zone. This is absolutely possible there if you’re in probably 80% of the suburbs, but you may struggle to be in the very nice few towns.

01HNNWZ0MV43FF• 1 year ago

They say taxes were higher at the top end, might be worth a shot

aprilthird20214• 1 year ago

Instead multimillionaire property owners in California pay no property tax because they're old and people who just bought a house with young kids pay all the tax. Most regressive tax system ever devised, designed to keep us underpopulated and our government services underfunded

sepositus3• 1 year ago

Have you spent much time in non-urban areas? I live in a <10k town and it's very much possible to achieve that here. I mean, not working at McDonald's, but our industry zone has plenty of good-paying opportunities in the mechanical, electrical, engineering, and even aerospace fields (drones, mostly). I have plenty of blue-collar friends working in these areas, and they all have homes with families.

We also have a huge green energy sector due to the natural geography. Our local community college even has a full program you can go through and come out making $35-40/hr.

macNchz• 1 year ago

My rural American hometown has surprisingly expensive homes because of highly restrictive building codes, many of the houses are owned by retired people or wealthy people from out of town, there's little industry to speak of, and multiple people from my 30-student 8th grade graduating class who stayed in town and did not leave for college have now died of heroin overdoses.

behringer• 1 year ago

Don't bank on it unless you're well skilled and/or have an in. Also let's hope you're OK working in factory/industrial jobs. A desk job in rural areas pays half what they do in the urban areas.

I'm guessing industrial jobs pay just as poorly compared to those in the cities.

viccis2• 1 year ago

I live somewhere like that. Houses have doubled in cost over the past 5 years.

dyauspitr• 1 year ago

Seems like an anomaly. Most <10k towns have jobs at Walmart, auto repair, landscaping, construction, electricians, plumbers and barbers/hairdressers.

aprilthird20214• 1 year ago

I moved from Memphis, TN to Silicon Valley and it took me 10 years of working in software to be in the market for a home. Meanwhile my friends who worked odd jobs in sandwich shops or theatres or filming / taking photographs for magazines all had homes a few years after we graduated.

It's a failure of the government that they allowed the old, senile landed gentry in parts of our country, especially California, to effectively be able to veto all new building while paying no property tax to fund our public services.

guywithahat• 1 year ago

Is it the old people? It feels like it's the new, young people moving to the city that do this.

When people do investigative reporting on the SF housing market, they find a bunch of people who have been spent 8 years trying to convert dilapidated buildings into an apartment complex, but have been getting blocked by environmental reports on what shadows the building will cast, or other bureaucratic nonsense.

This is a famous video demonstrating that point; where even if you're rightfully zoned to do something, it can take years and years of fighting bureaucratic nonsense if you haven't bribed the right people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExgxwKnH8y4

bigfishrunning• 1 year ago

I'm doing this right now, north of Pittsburgh. It's still possible

nickpinkston• 1 year ago

I was just back in my hometown of New Castle (~1 hr north) for TG, and it's the same story there.

Though most professional people need to drive to Pittsburgh or similar big city to get a decent job.

tptacek• 1 year ago

This is what most homeowners do.

michpoch• 1 year ago

But isn’t it still the same? You just need to be reasonable what a „normal job” is.

mlna• 1 year ago

Great game. I love it so much.

binbag• 1 year ago

Brilliant. This is my life.

atorok9• 1 year ago

Ah this is a quote I was looking for :D

saaaaaam2• 1 year ago

Love this. However, when I got a high score I appeared twice on the leader board for some reason. Another time I appeared just as “name” and my high score which would have put me at #1 at that point (12090!) didn’t get entered at all.

I also got duplicate cards a few times - which might be intentional, but was a little annoying.

Very addictive in a silly fun way. Well done :)

atorok9• 1 year ago

Lova your last comment :D

I fixed the first issue: I got also an alert at the same time that I ran out of quota on the db so had to increase it. You should see your point now. The duplicate cards issue is strange.. I'll have to debug that a bit more

ChosenEnd• 1 year ago

SAM, I can see your score, I just dethroned you with 12280.

saaaaaam2• 1 year ago

MONSTER! I will vanquish you when I have time from my actual job which startlingly resemble this.

chelical• 1 year ago

I also got a score that would have put me on the leaderboard, but the leaderboard did not update sadly.

atorok9• 1 year ago

Did you check the console to see if there were any error messages?

dijksterhuis• 1 year ago

Tech Debt score of +5 at the end. Is it obvious I'm a software engineer?

bug notes

- couple of times a card seemed to get magically selected for me, i've got "tapping = clicking" disabled on my trackpad, so not sure how those happened, hopefully was me fat fingering. usually i didn't even have time to see the new card though, which makes me think it might be some bug with noticing inputs? could be my fat fingers tho.

- When I have spare meeting time left over, I was able to select an objective that had moved as a result of a card at the start of the day, could infinitely roll the dice with nothing happening. I could at least select a different objective to make things move forward tho.

atorok9• 1 year ago

Thanks, lol, you deserve a well-architected wink ;)

Thanks for these bug reports, nice and detailed so I'll be able to find a fix for them

pkkm2• 1 year ago

I was able to select an objective that had moved as a result of a card at the start of the day, could infinitely roll the dice with nothing happening.

Same bug here, in Firefox 128.

Also, while we're making suggestions, would it be possible to replace the tutorial balloon boxes with something that's less in the way? I like built-in hints and don't want to turn them off, but sometimes they can be a bit annoying when they cover up parts of the game UI. I would prefer some kind of animated glow behind the parts of the game I'm supposed to click on (cards, bars, or the die) plus a statically positioned explanation box to the side or on the bottom. That would make the hints unobtrusive enough that there would be no need to provide an option to turn them off.

atorok9• 1 year ago

Can you refresh the browser and see if it's fixed? I also made the hints slightly transparent as a quick temp fix, that needs a bit more time and testing

thomasjudge• 1 year ago

"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."

esafak• 1 year ago

Some CEOs are clearly winning. Global thermonuclear war has not broken out yet either :)

ilikehurdles• 1 year ago

I played a card that said tech debt drops by 4 thinking it’s a good thing, but it knocked me out of the game

intelVISA• 1 year ago

You thought too much, that makes investors uneasy.

atorok9• 1 year ago

ROFL this comment made my day

alberth• 1 year ago

I didn't understand how people were scoring so high until I saw in the Settings that you can increase the Working Hours to 24, and your Hand size to 10.

The game immediately became less fun. I was able to max everything out in green in just a few days.

gwerbret• 1 year ago

"Note, modifying these settings means your score will not be added to the leaderboard!"

KronisLV• 1 year ago

If you set the amount of working hours per day to 14, the game suddenly becomes easy. :')

forty• 1 year ago

Why are the cards overlapping? There is enough space on my mobile screen to display them all if they were not tilt

notnmeyer• 1 year ago

fun game, but annoying to read the cards on mobile. would be nice to have an option to have them laid out without being fanned and overlapping

Bjorkbat• 1 year ago

Related, if you like startup simulators, then you'll love The Founder (http://thefounder.biz/).

Incidentally Francis Tseng also worked on Half-Earth Socialism, which is also quite fun, and both games happen to be open-source (https://github.com/frnsys/)

atorok9• 1 year ago

Lol, thanks I'm trying them out!

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