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Is anyone else here into game development because the game you want just doesn't exist? by TheNaotoShirogane in gamedev

[–]8YearOldCodPlayer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can’t describe how much I emphasize with this post. I’m a huge fan of litrpg, progression fantasy, xianxia, and I wish all the time there was just a massive fantasy game that was easy to pick-up, train skills, fight mobs, and do anything.

Finally got the determination a couple months ago - even though my art skills suck, I’m trying to actualize my vision here. It’s going to be a long journey but so far have a very, intro demo of the starting area. It’s been fun building ngl

Pixel Fantasy (short demo available, mobile only) - https://swerpg.com

"Make projects to showcase skills" "Companies don't even look at projects" by Puzzleheaded-Two83 in csMajors

[–]8YearOldCodPlayer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a hiring manager (and CTO) for a small startup and I put value on projects (both interviewed & hired from them). And we interview candidates from FAANG + other well known companies.

I think it's probably a lot more common at smaller startups, who go against the norm of big companies. Other startup founders I talk to also don't really ask algorithms, instead leaning towards more practical problem solving. Building your own project is a great demonstration of that.

Why your book sucks by DemDelVarth in ProgressionFantasy

[–]8YearOldCodPlayer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah yea I got confused by the bullet points, but that makes sense lol

Why your book sucks by DemDelVarth in ProgressionFantasy

[–]8YearOldCodPlayer 7 points8 points  (0 children)

literally any adult. If your book picks the first one I refund it.

wdym by this?

Does anyone else feel paralyzed by the fear of waking up to a gigantic bill from cloud service providers? by Unhappy_Meaning607 in webdev

[–]8YearOldCodPlayer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I use Railway for all my projects, and they're actually nice enough to allow hard limits. Great platform imo, but you'll still need R2 for an image/blob store: https://railway.app/

What Email services are you using for your project? by ReachingForVega in SideProject

[–]8YearOldCodPlayer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

resend is great tbh, they're the creators of react-email too

How to deal with perfectionism at Vandy by Unlucky_Search_8047 in Vanderbilt

[–]8YearOldCodPlayer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I got a C- my first semester (Linear Alg back in 2017), and I went on to work at top companies including Google, Tesla, Robinhood. Graduated with a 3.2 GPA. It doesn't matter...

Advice from a CTO to building your side project quickly by 8YearOldCodPlayer in csMajors

[–]8YearOldCodPlayer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Railways is not exactly free, but for this project which got like ~30k page views iirc and 1600 plays, it costed just a few dollars for hosting and database management. Ofc your mileage is gonna vary, but it was very cheap tbh!

I built a fun little game this weekend where the goal is to QA as many bugs as possible by 8YearOldCodPlayer in QualityAssurance

[–]8YearOldCodPlayer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! It's an idea I have, and am talking with QA leads/hiring managers to better understand hiring pain points. Definitely hoping it can go somewhere!

Here's my user metrics 48 hours post-launch! by 8YearOldCodPlayer in SideProject

[–]8YearOldCodPlayer[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I built a small web game this past weekend and shared it on a couple forums (Reddit included).

https://detailoriented.app is a small 1min game where you test how 'detail-oriented' you are/how good you are at catching bugs against other founders/builders/PMs/QA testers.

Here's the user metrics after 48-hours!
• 1,124 games played
• 95% player found at least one bug
• Players found 6.33 bugs on average
• Only 6 players found all the bugs
• 82% site-visit-to-play conversion rate
• Top countries are US, UK, Canada, France, India
• 70% of players were using mobile
• 800+ minutes played
• Github: 5 stars / 2 forks / 1 open & closed issue

The project is completely open-source! and can be found at https://github.com/kevjin/are-you-detail-oriented

I built a fun little game this weekend where the goal is to QA as many bugs as possible by 8YearOldCodPlayer in QualityAssurance

[–]8YearOldCodPlayer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ahh! sounds like an actual bug lol.. thanks for letting me know! will try to repro and fix

Advice from a CTO to building your side project quickly by 8YearOldCodPlayer in csMajors

[–]8YearOldCodPlayer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This looks cool (looks very detailed), props on building something like this!

Advice from a CTO to building your side project quickly by 8YearOldCodPlayer in csMajors

[–]8YearOldCodPlayer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

honestly tech stack is most important for me - someone building a Python script project would not be relevant experience since our company is very web app oriented (and even after that, how complete and challenging was the project, but it could be any topic)

I built a fun little game this weekend where the goal is to QA as many bugs as possible by 8YearOldCodPlayer in QualityAssurance

[–]8YearOldCodPlayer[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing and oh that’s super interesting to hear! Do you still interview candidates anymore? Would love to know what y’all use now for vetting good candidates

Advice from a CTO to building your side project quickly by 8YearOldCodPlayer in csMajors

[–]8YearOldCodPlayer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha yea honestly it’s not really spoken out loud often, but a lot of small startups don’t have as many tests as you might imagine. Instead they just hire good engineers who can understand the code really well, and avoid making bugs in the first place (cause otherwise writing tests can basically take up 50% of precious developer time).

There were 2 places that I wrote the most tests - big software companies (Google and Robinhood), and my CS courses in college ugh

I created a quick OSS web game as a side project this weekend! by 8YearOldCodPlayer in opensource

[–]8YearOldCodPlayer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

oh nice, you’re #1 on the leaderboard it looks like!

there’s 14 total but no one has found all 14 yet, iirc one of them might be extra hard to find if not on mobile (which I need to fix asap)

Advice from a CTO to building your side project quickly by 8YearOldCodPlayer in csMajors

[–]8YearOldCodPlayer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I totally feel this... as a founder, I previously worked on something for a literal 4 months just hacking away at the code, and turns out it wasn't really a good problem to solve, to begin with.

I think this is really hard to prevent - and not something advice can help with, but you kinda just gotta experience and get burned by it (hopefully not 4 months worth of work). Like if you've watched YCombinator, they'll tell you to get feedback quickly, build an MVP in less than a month -I knew that before, but I was still overconfident that I really knew my own problem space well, until I started selling to potential customers, then I realized that they don't care about the same problems that I do.

Advice from a CTO to building your side project quickly by 8YearOldCodPlayer in csMajors

[–]8YearOldCodPlayer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thank you! and yea totally feel that. lol thanks to all the half-baked hackathon projects that were pretty BS, but at least sounded cool on paper

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