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https://overseer.studio - Infinite canvas for apps, browser tabs, PDFs, and more. Primarily focused on Game Masters for TTRPGs but I've heard from many that it would be an excellent general purpose digital binder.

Started last year with a problem I faced personally playing TTRPGs with newcomers. Built Overseer over a year to where it is today.

ah that's right, thanks for correcting.

still, I think my other remark about his writings stand.

geohotz, the infamous person who cracked the PS3 at the time. Been following him since that time and this project since he started it. His blogs have always teetered on the edge of unprofessional while remaining incredibly knowledgeable and insightful. Truly enjoy all his work.

I suspect the migration to Azure is continuing to go well

“Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.”

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995

Thanks! Frontend stack is React, Three.js, and Cannon.js. We use FBX for the models mostly but started to support GLB files recently which open up a world of new options for customization.

Thank you :)

Laravel, MySQL (Planetscale), Redis. Hosted on fly.io

Total monthly expenses is somewhere near $30/mo which is less than I've paid for personal hosting at times.

3D dice rolling with friends https://dddice.com

Have some ideas on monetization in the future but for now it's just fun

Did the company make money?

That's the reality of it. You don't need shiny frameworks or any of those tools to make money.

Are developers happy with it? Maybe! Nothing wrong with spicing up a site with a little jQuery. Heck, I used Alpine.js on a brand new site and it's great. No build step, just works!

Been using fly.io - Started to move professional projects over too

Love seeing Laravel in the wild. We've had a lot of success with it so far. Good luck with the project!

Completely aside, but I used to write PHP 10-ish years ago during the PHP 3/4/5 era. My career launched me into Node.js and JavaScript but I've since come back to PHP and it's been really lovely to write and maintain.

Hey HN

Co-founder of dddice here. Feel free to ask any questions about our infrastructure, codebase, or my latest D&D characters!

https://dddice.com - 3D dice roller

"Use boring technology" - Laravel, MySQL, Fly.io for hosting

We automate nearly all aspects of the business as well. If a task needs to be done more than once, it's worth automating. GitHub actions to test/deploy, admin pages for all activities such as marketplace submissions, payouts, tax reports, chargebacks/refunds ... If there is ever a problem with a purchase, we have ways to reply and refund all with the click of a button.

We recently switched from a VPS to Fly.io and PlanetScale as well and it's been working quite nicely. As we grow to more regions, it's nice to know we can deploy servers close to our users with a single command.

I created a 3D digital dice rolling app for tabletop roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons. Been slowly adding features to it for just under a year. No timelines, no stress. Growing at a nice pace.

https://dddice.com

Sounds like you have poor self-control. I've been working from home for 6-years and never once had this problem.

There are many ways to form productive habits at home; for example, remote conference rooms that people can jump in and out of. Slack even has "huddles" now which are very useful for remote work.

Letting your team down has nothing to do with being a seat-warmer in the office.

I've been using PHP for our latest venture after 8+ years of node.js and it's become the de facto language to use at our company.

Anyone writing comments about "scaling" or "performance" has never had to deal with a half-baked application written by some junior node.js developer who thought their microservice had to be Internet Scale(tm)

PHP is a great choice in 2022. Hell, it'll be a great choice in 2032 I'm sure. The tooling and debugging that PHP provides is incredibly powerful. Developers are easy to find, it's easy to pick up (which sure makes it easy to get wrong), but those who get it right will do it incredibly well.

Arguments against PHP are lead by developers who think they're smarter than they really are.

s/php/node.js/g

This is an interesting concept. Would the API help fill in this type of feature? You could roll using the API and use the return to perform a lookup in a table you design.

Good question - The dice organizer (to the left of the roll buttons) lets you organize different dice themes into your bottom piles. You can also customize your own themes with the basic editor.

How does this compare to TinyLetter? (Been using them for years, no complaints)

A friend and I needed a quick and easy way to share dice rolls while playing tabletop games remotely, so we created this tool in our spare time to do so.

There's a couple themes to choose from right now but we have an editor in the works that should allow anyone to create their own dice themes.

Happy to answer any questions about the tech or site!

I've written a couple side project games in Heaps and I'm a big fan.

If you're familiar with Pixi.js, Heaps and it's language, Haxe, will feel very similar. Haxe is a pretty cool language, it's similar to TypeScript but compiles to native binaries for almost all major game consoles.

Heaps was apparently the framework behind Dead Cells if that says anything about the level of polish you can accomplish with this set of tools.

Mega is owned by Kim Dotcom who is about as trustworthy as John McAfee, this does not at all surprise me.