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- tool to analyze and explore unity3d build size reports

- tool to manage examples dataset for another ai application

- macos transcribe app that allows me to hotkey to speak to notion page, with a little status bar menu to select pages

All relatively trivial but I'd never bother to create them manually

dotplay.games | Founding engineer | Full-time | Remote or Berlin or Valencia

Learn more about business at https://developers.dotplay.games

We're creating an alternative to appstore and playstore for mobile games. By building a portal to publish the games and more importantly technology toolset that allows to optimise successful games to work well on the mobile web.

We're looking for product oriented engineer with extensive experience in either web development or game development (ideally with unity3d). And with interest to lear about the whole stack.

You'll be working on creating the platform backend for game services and our porting toolset.

Backend: c#/f# asp.net, python, postgres, docker Data: airflow (for now, probably migrating soon), dbt, metabase Frontend: react, shadcn

email bartosz@ company domain

Building transcription app that lets me dictate notes to notion.

Doint a lot of exploratory work for my day job and trying to establish practice of good documentation so i hope being able to ramble as i work will make this easier.

At this point it's simple macos flutter app that toggles recording on global keyboard shortcut.

For my use cases: web development with python, c#, react and unity3d extension development. Claude is significantly better.

I switched over few months ago and still test GPT from time to time, Claude wins every time

dotplay.games | Founding engineer | Full-time | Remote or Berlin or Valencia

Learn more about business at https://developers.dotplay.games

We're creating an alternative to appstore and playstore for mobile games. By building a portal to publish the games and more importantly technology toolset that allows to optimise successful games to work well on the mobile web.

We're looking for product oriented engineer with extensive experience in either web development or game development (ideally with unity3d). And with interest to lear about the whole stack.

You'll be working on creating the platform backend for game services and our porting toolset.

Backend: c#/f# asp.net, python, postgres, docker Data: airflow (for now, probably migrating soon), dbt, metabase Frontend: react, shadcn

email bartosz@ company domain

Find a company that does things you are interested in that is also hiring people with your skills (webdev?). Get a job there as backend Dev and after a while ask to transfer internally into role that's more interesting. Before you can ask for the transfer hang out and learn from people that do thee job you want

Almost any idea you'll ever have will be out there, usually with small differences not exactly the same but still pretty close.

I would not be bothered and continue working, if you build it right and speak to your customers your idea will evolve 100 times before you realise

The startup is still going 5 years in. We had great run intially up to raising series A in 2019. Then covid hit us hard we had to lay off most of the team. We are growing slowly again but not quite out of the pit

Now one of my co-foundes pushed out other one last year and now is quitting himself with most of his equity vested.

At many points in the last few years my decisions to stay in the business were much harder because of unbalanced equity. Running a business is hard, hardest thing I've ever done. Last thing you want is feeling someone is going to profit from your effort and you get nothing from it, it's especially risky with your setup because your VC friends might eventually get pref shares. And don't count on your personal relationship with them, end of the day they are running business and have obligations to their investors

Finally raising seed money is not the success, building product people want with supportive business model is, running 18 months with your seed money and failing anyway doesn't sound much better than 18 without investment. I don't have that much experience in investing but I'd also think that cap table like this would make getting more money from other investors hard

I've joined a start-up as third co-founder and agreed to only 10% equity, regretted it few years in. From now on I'd not accept any offer that's not equal split between funders (few % difference at most)

For your situation if they'd be more engaged I'd suggest equal equity split what you describe sounds like normal investment albeit with fairly hands on investor. They should be getting 20%, 30% if you feel generous.