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Thank you, I'm glad to get validation from someone directly involved with recruitment!

I think a lot of people overlook how important it is to account for people doing recruitment related tasks. Scalability and simplicity really shine for that.

My first two games were built with my own hacky web sockets implementation. From a software perspective it's pretty messy, but it gets the job done haha.

I actually had built an alpha version of my 3rd game with my own networking code, but because it is more of a real-time game, there were tons of bugs. Switching to use Hathora for the back-end logic has made the game much more stable so I can finally work to release the game.

You can check out my first two games here: https://gomobo.app/. They play kind of similar to Jackbox games, but with more strategy board game elements. Would love to hear what you think!

Not dsiddharth, but for what it's worth I am using Hathora for my upcoming game (it's almost complete!). Their product still very new, but they have been extremely helpful with every step of the process building with Hathora.

They have two products - an open-source dev framework (free) and a cloud-hosting product (paid).

My games will likely never reach millions players, but my first two games led to over 1,000 sign-ups and I've made over $1k in revenue (which I'm super proud of). I can report back with how my newest game does after it launches.

I’ve gotten to know Harsh and we even built a game together with Hathora. We made a digital board game together in a week.

I’m a dev that makes web games (gomobo.app) but I’ve always wanted to spend more time building the game logic and UI and less on the networking and infrastructure stuff. I think Hathora is a great way to make your next game idea wayyy faster.

I was looking for something like this, thanks for sharing!

Can I ask how you are sourcing/populating your data?

It's a one-time payment for all games. And only one player needs to own the game in order to host and play with anyone.

Games are priced between $8-12. Once I release my third game I am going to sell my games as a bundle (similar to Jackbox Party Packs)

I feel like it has the Streisand Effect[1] on me and I often end up reading them. If anything because of a morbid curiosity haha.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

Isn't that a bit overly pedantic? I agree that some of these examples are far-from passive, but this wouldn't be much of a thread if everyone just listed some form of passive investing. I think the heart of this thread is near-passive income sources, like 1-2 hours per week.

This is great, my main use case for my Paperwhite is to read in bed with the other lights off. A warmer yellow light would make it a lot nicer for that.

I feel like having a meme generator as a tool at work is just a bad idea for even mid-sized companies, let alone a company of Google's size.

Someone's pursuit for laughs will inevitably lead to some people feeling offended or hurt.

I am personally fine with my current phone speeds. I even use my phone as a hotspot for my laptop when I do coding at the park.

Curious what the bottlenecks for people are that make them want 5G so urgently?

Thanks for sharing, I found it really cool and informative.

Also, just a great example of an innovative marketing strategy: provide legitimate value to people who are part of your target market.

Pretty simple stuff, like a hat or a triangle.

I think the major hangup for this discussion is that each of us probably have a different definition of what counts as a friend. I think there's certainly a gradient between "friendly" and "friend", but I honestly don't think the exact label matters much. For the sake of my discussion, I will consider a "friend" someone that I would want to hang out with 1-on-1.

But I think there are certain boundaries that both sides must be respectful of. For example, as a manager you need to make it clear to your employee/friend when you are communicating as a manager vs as a friend. That distinction should not be left ambiguous as that will make things potentially awkward if there is a disconnect.

As an employee, you need to respect that fact that your manager cannot tell you everything, and understanding that being their friend doesn't mean they will give you any special treatment. You should be extra careful to avoid this, as your manager will be sensitive if they notice you are trying to take advantage of the friendship in any way.

In the end, I think these boundaries can cause the friendship to not progress past a certain point if you are actively working together, mainly because it is just extra work to move past a certain level of friendship if so.

Really cool idea, although it does seem to label most of what I draw as "line", "stitches", or "rain".

Your assumption requires that no one actually wants or will buy the 256gb option. I for one definitely would consider it, all my current computers have only 256gb and I haven't had issues (external hard drives are cheap).

gmail.com (which redirects to https://mail.google.com)

Do you have proof??

Honestly, if the relevant content they showed be was actually relevant and interesting, I wouldn't mind at all. That is a big "if" though.

I think a point of confusion is that "startup" means different things to different people. I believe the parent comment here really means "average, early-stage SF startup" in place of "startup".

But them making a decision to benefit themselves is not necessarily mutually exclusive to a decision that benefits other developers and the OSS community. Your point is valid, but just want to clarify that it isn't necessarily all negative.

I agree that it is pretty obnoxious when logged out, but I find it to be fine when I am logged in. What parts bother you?

Yeah definitely, from reading the article it sounds like they just want the freedom to do what they want to do (and that likely could come with bonus income). The article mentions the programmer's wife is an optometrist and is still working actually.

You do bring up an interesting point. Apple's (expected?) responsibility here is to protect their users from malicious apps on their devices. It does seem reasonable for me what they are doing, but of course if they were to lose sight of their users' best interests, then this could become problematic. However, I think for issues like that we need to just trust the market to correct for that. If Apple were to destroy user trust, then I would not doubt that people would flock to their competitors (Google, Samsung, etc).

As long as the loot boxes are for cosmetics and are not deceptive in any way, I have no issue with games including them.

It's explicitly not a subscription because you can still play the game without purchasing the additional expansions. I have played Destiny 2 consistently since it was released for PC, but I play it almost exclusively for PvP (Crucible). I can continue to play PvP without purchasing the new expansions. The main difference is that I won't always be able to unlock some of the new guns (which is fine by me).

I would have preferred AWS D2B.

I'm guessing if you would have included this reasoning in your original comment, then it wouldn't have been downvoted.

I totally agree with you. And to add to your point, the impact of having a dominance in the market of "personal project repos" extends far beyond individual developers paying money on their personal accounts and/or becoming paying customers when they start their own companies.

If you think about mid-sized software companies (~10-100 devs), if 80% of your developers have a strong preference for Github over Gitlab or Bitbucket, then that company is likely going to stick with Github or decide to move to Github eventually. I think this is where Github captures much more than that 12% revenue that they are giving up right now.

I am confused by this sentiment. Wouldn't moving to another product (like bitbucket or gitlab) put you in the same boat (since they also offer free private repositories)?