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matthew.martori [at] gmail.com
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mattmar96··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
Https://htwins.net/sotu2

I ported the flash app Scale of the Universe to WebGL. I asked for payment as a portion of ad revenue and make about $500 a month.

mattmar96··on Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL
Absolutely. You can email us at scaleoftheuniversedev [at] gmail.com - thanks!
mattmar96··on Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL
I had checked it out on my phone but I just spent 20 minutes playing with it on my computer. I absolutely love it! The performance is really impressive.
mattmar96··on Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL
This is incredible! Bravo.
mattmar96··on Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL
I appreciate that! No pressure, but you will be credited
mattmar96··on Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL
Ah so many bugs. Going to take care of all of these soon. Glad you enjoyed.
mattmar96··on Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL
Interesting, I’ll take a look at the docs. Appreciate you pointing that out!
mattmar96··on Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL
Its just a matter of who volunteers to translate.
mattmar96··on Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL
Appreciate the bug report. I’ll take a look.
mattmar96··on Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL
Not sure on the original, but I spent about a year working on it on weekends here and there. Hard to find time with full time work and other projects mixed in. I would say it was around 100 hours of work in total. The majority of the was done within a couple weeks but there were a lot of performance tweaks and bugs to fix.
mattmar96··on Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL
Sorry about that, that is a google adsense ad which I don’t have control over. Need to pay for the hosting somehow.
mattmar96··on Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL
It was closer to a port than reverse engineering. I spoke with Cary (the original creator) to get explanations from him on how the features and math behind it worked. He then sent over the metadata and images for all the objects. I think he sent the original flash project as well but I don't remember reading that code too much because his explanations of the functionality were sufficient.
mattmar96··on Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL
I'm very glad to hear it. I spent a lot of time optimizing.
mattmar96··on Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL
Thank you, I'll be sure to fix that.
mattmar96··on Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL
Yeah it is from KSP, good ear!

https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/most/kerbalspacep...

Oops I should really add a credit for it.

mattmar96··on Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL
Thank you for this. It has been nice to read the old threads.

btw, I appreciate you fixing my grammar in the title.

mattmar96··on Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL
Oh good point. I'll update the message for android.
mattmar96··on Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL
Oh hmm. Yeah it looks like the app isn't on the store for me either. I'm not involved in the app but I'll let my collaborator know.
mattmar96··on Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL
Thank you for the kind words and feedback! I'll look into these.
mattmar96··on Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL
Appreciate it
mattmar96··on Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL
Yeah, just kind of tricky to get everything working on a phone. My collaborator Cary's brother Michael had already built an iOS app so we didn't bother getting this working on phones.
mattmar96··on Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL
Yeah that's a good idea. The only issue is that its been translated into so many different languages that it'd be a pain to get that name/description translated to all 17 of them.
mattmar96··on Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL
I had that thought, but the original assets were provided to me in bitmap form. Maybe we can try that in the future though
mattmar96··on Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL
Thank you! Gotta have minecraft
mattmar96··on Show HN: I rebuilt the Flash app “Scale of the Universe” in WebGL
You can check out the source code here: https://github.com/matttt/scale_of_the_universe
mattmar96··on High schoolers are training to drive 18-wheelers amid shortage of truck drivers
Just this past weekend I drove a 25ft truck for a 400 mile move. It was the first time I've driven something bigger than a car and I gained a lot of respect for truck drivers. Surprisingly difficult to do basic things like lane centering.
mattmar96··on LudoTune, a 3D music sequencer in the browser
This is a cool idea. A first step before first party integration into a piano roll could be a vst with midi output. I know this can be done because of plugins like Xfer's Cthulu. I'd pay for that!
mattmar96··on Ford “Volume knob” is “finger” on set of bearings epoxied directly onto display
Knobs are better. If you overshoot your desired volume, you simple turn it back a bit. With buttons you need to find a separate control to correct your mistake.
mattmar96··on “When the entire household goes to bed, I do curl development for 2 more hours.”
I enjoy project euler. Its a series of programming challenges that can be completed in any language you’d like.

https://projecteuler.net

mattmar96··on Create a 3D product landing page with ThreeJS and React
Im thinking its some kind of rate limiting from netlify. My webgl project also has around 16mb of assets and loads in 1/8 or so the time this does on the same connection.
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