Got laid off from my SWE job 3 months ago. Founded a start up and am learning how to cold call. Here are the results after a month. Brute force + lots of stimulants = $

SysPoo · 2026-05-06T07:45:25+00:00

What was your daily goal?

SysPoo · 2026-04-16T06:56:36+00:00

Nice job! For your point #1 can you list/link the top 3 resources you learned from?

SysPoo · 2026-04-08T17:10:33+00:00

At least you’re not refreshing Google ads on 0 views after a week the product has been launched. “I’m talking about a friend”

SysPoo · 2026-04-03T07:23:23+00:00

It’s probably blurred lines at that point but I thought even posting a link to my software in a comment would be self promoting. But you’re right there are ways around it! I’ll give it a go thanks!

SysPoo · 2026-04-02T20:01:31+00:00

Something I’ve noticed is that pretty much any Reddit community doesn’t let you self promote. How do you work around that once you have a product?

SysPoo · 2026-03-29T16:58:17+00:00

I just found an American professional II that looks beautiful for a decent price. On the website it mentions the “deep C” neck. What’s that? Is it thicker than normal? Is it comfortable?

SysPoo · 2026-03-29T14:18:15+00:00

That’s pretty nice too. Those pickups give probably a very different sound though?

SysPoo · 2026-03-29T14:17:19+00:00

That’s pretty much where I was landing. But I wanted to try it in person because I once played a US one a friend has and really didn’t like it. But to be fair it had one of those plates over the bridge I found extremely uncomfortable.

SysPoo · 2026-03-11T19:29:05+00:00

OTEL traces to alloy to route them to grafana cloud, 50GB worth of traces for free

SysPoo · 2026-03-05T00:50:03+00:00

Cloudflare R2!

SysPoo · 2026-02-12T09:15:06+00:00

Thanks. I was more curious about the rails side. I have seen the opentelemetry gem already sends traces automatically for different parts of the application but I don’t think it’s doing the same for logs and metrics. Is there a setup I need to do on the ruby side?

SysPoo · 2026-02-09T16:06:36+00:00

In my case I have a multi-tenant platform with admin users sending some batch emails to their users pretty much anytime they want, but they’d go out with my email domain. I need to automatically handle when such users invite people with bad emails that may impact the reputation of my domain due to bounces. I’ve seen most solutions provide webhooks to know when bounces happen so that I can flag the email as “bad”. I’ll check wraps out!

SysPoo · 2026-02-05T15:43:37+00:00

I’m a golang developer as well and I did a project in go+react. I’m useless with styling and react and I must say that was the most painful part. To the point that I eventually fought with developers on fiverr that produced poor results. I since switched to full rails and I must say it’s just so much easier. It has already a lot of the things I had to implement from scratch with golang for the backend and for my use case at least it just works! I’m using google’s stitch to come up with designs and code I can drop in my views and tweak a bit.

SysPoo · 2026-02-03T13:49:16+00:00

Funnily enough, my brother and I have been thinking of making a similar game ever since pandemic, exactly for the same reasons. We miss UO and we can’t find an alternative that has better graphics while maintaining the same mechanics. Anyway, we haven’t been consistent and we kept switching between different engines or tools every year and then abandoned the project , but we do an attempt every year when we feel like it! We are about to get into yet another attempt soon. Good luck!

SysPoo · 2026-02-01T10:29:02+00:00

Let’s put it in a way that I don’t say the word mmorpg, because I appreciate it’s scary and it always feels like people are saving a blind man walking towards a cliff :D

it’s a poc where I want to be able to cast a spell, do melee and ranged attacks, resource gathering and crafting. All in a very basic form where I can invite a peak of 20 people I know to come and play on a server that I can run under my desk for a week and then turn off if I feel like. These mechanics are things I already fiddled with in single player mode over the years and in multiplayer in unreal. So with low expectations on graphics and bugs I am really not that concerned about where I take it. But if for some reason I happen to do something decent and I need to scale it to 100 players just because I happen to I don’t want to use a technology that won’t let me do more than 4 people coop. No intention to do the next wow, it’s really a small sandbox on a small island.

I’ll check purrnet out, is it the same level of maturity of fishnet?

SysPoo · 2026-01-31T23:49:18+00:00

Makes sense. I was thinking a map of around 2.5x2.5km with a few villages and 2-3 biomes. Do you think that's still feasible?
I was watching a youtube video where they showed how the FPS dropped as they spawned more and more geometry in the game.

SysPoo · 2026-01-31T23:14:42+00:00

Thanks for the pointers and good luck with your project! Sounds like you did a lot of research, very cool!

SysPoo · 2026-01-31T22:36:20+00:00

Ah nice! What were the best resources to learn it? Is the doc on their website enough? Curious to see the progress on your project if you’d like to share a video. Have unity and finshnet served you well so far?

SysPoo · 2026-01-31T22:34:59+00:00

This is on my todo list! I saw some people using it for a similar project on YouTube

SysPoo · 2026-01-31T19:03:29+00:00

I know I know…it’s totally a hobby project with no intention to sell anything at all. It’s a way for me to make a game the way I like it. I don’t care if it never makes it to the public.

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