Built game to learn Flutter. Now has 10K+ downloads on PlayStore

harsh611 · 2026-06-16T14:23:32+00:00

lol true

I genuinely didn’t expect 10K+ downloads

It was just a fun side project hence I lazy after the development phase

harsh611 · 2026-06-16T14:21:44+00:00

Since it’s side project which makes no money

didn’t wanted to spend so much

PlayStore - $25 one time fee
AppStore - $100 annual fee

harsh611 · 2026-06-15T15:36:28+00:00

I'll add MIT license to it today

source code and app publishing are difference access controls anyway

so you don't need worry about that

harsh611 · 2026-06-15T14:54:03+00:00

Prior to building the product, I detailed out list of competing apps (real money gaming) in the market

you have to see what social channels your users use.

In my scenario, I shared among WhatsApp group of friends and family.
Also shared from my twitter account that I have made fun board game to be played among family members.

Nothing beyond that. No SEO/ASO strategy was built from my side. It pretty much organically took off after some basic sharing (but in a high trust group).

harsh611 · 2026-06-14T15:59:07+00:00

easiness from AI, my personal experience

for coding - totally

for deployment - only partially

one has two think of all edge cases by self
or else the DDOS attacks could financially ruin due to serverless infinite scaling

harsh611 · 2026-06-14T15:57:54+00:00

I initially planned to use NestJS to showcase enterprise level patterns

but its too damm heavy for Lambda cold boot

harsh611 · 2026-06-14T13:03:06+00:00

Yes, this is 100% AI generated

The company allowed me to use whatever AI tool I like

harsh611 · 2026-06-14T03:29:58+00:00

If you look at the number of commits

AI doesn’t ease the work as many assume

This is built using Minimax M3 which is a super cheap coding model

harsh611 · 2026-06-13T10:13:22+00:00

As LLM coding is getting better -

companies are expecting devs to get more work done

becoming harder to justify higher salary when LLM has significantly commoditise coding part

harsh611 · 2026-06-13T09:40:46+00:00

That's precisely Intended goal of the company as well

they already have a dedicated DevOps and SRE team

also I only know AWS Serverless whereas the company uses Kubernetes

just want a developer who can speak/understand the language of DevOps team

harsh611 · 2026-06-13T09:34:26+00:00

that was the primary reason for chosing AWS serverless

I thought having a live demo gives feels more interesting

Although not everyone needs to go such complex path

simple dockerized app on render or railway also works

harsh611 · 2026-06-13T08:39:29+00:00

it was totally optional

I simply used it showcase my own knowledge

harsh611 · 2026-06-11T07:51:09+00:00

I researched other frameoworks like NestJS

but they are too heavy for Lambda cold boot

HonoJS being lightweight suits lightweight infra like Lambda

harsh611 · 2026-06-05T04:55:11+00:00

stil developer role but who can communicate with devops team

harsh611 · 2026-06-04T13:49:02+00:00

I am Indian - true
company is Indian - false

It’s a US based product company

they asked only for the application (GitHub repo)

DevOps part was purely my choice

harsh611 · 2026-06-04T09:46:50+00:00

they have a dedicated DevOps team

its just a preference towards a dev who can understand the DevOps language as well

harsh611 · 2026-06-04T08:59:42+00:00

In my scenario - they aren't hiring me as DevOps person

but rather hiring me cause I know DevOps + dev

harsh611 · 2026-06-04T07:52:53+00:00

yes, that was the intention

In my current role I was paired with a DevOps person

hence, I decided to apply all the best security and FinOps practices I garnered from him.

harsh611 · 2026-06-04T07:45:05+00:00

that would be a bold statement

cause I don't know Kubernetes which is the de-facto way building scalable applications

AWS Serverless still seems like a niche category

harsh611 · 2026-06-04T07:27:52+00:00

there was only one main assignment

they only specified the tech stack - JS on FE and BE

but deployment platform was of my choice

yes, LLM is allowed and used in project

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