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The inspiration for “The Deck” came from a situation many of us have experienced. Imagine gathering with friends for a game night, only to realize that nobody has the necessary cards. Frustrating, right? This dilemma sparked the idea of leveraging technology to create a solution.

This feels like a lot of work compared to popping down to the corner store for a pack of cards.

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On the other hand, it would be prohibitively expensive to, say, auction off the whitespace of each card to the highest bidder in a realtime auction.

With apps players may get this functionality right out of the box.

Leaving aside the efficency of the solution, I find it hard to believe that the problem is all that frequent. Yes, there are people who don't keep around decks of cards or other basic game components. But do those people organize game nights?

Seriously, I feel like if you say "hi I am Having A Game Night" then this kinda implies that you're gonna bring along some games to wherever you're getting your friends to gather, maybe they'll bring some too.

This project maybe gains potential when the number of games it can play far exceeds the number you can bring physically to a game night, especially if predicting which games people will want to play is difficult with that group or at that time.

A feature to allow users to create their own game rules for playing and sharing would be a great addition, IMO.

Neither of these points changes the mind of anyone who would rather play with the physical board game, but I think the ideal market for this is probably not that group.

Really? It looks like everyone just opens the app, one person hosts, and everyone scans their phone. Done. Works over wifi. No "searching" for the hosted server.

20 seconds vs. 30 minutes to drive to the store and back.

I mostly meant the effort involved in writing it.

Have Doordash drop off a deck.

This feels like a "neat, but why" project. Odds are the app is going to be difficult to use compared to a real deck.

I agree

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