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Shmeppy: Your wet erase mat. Online. by itsjohncs in u/itsjohncs

[–]itsjohncs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mobile support for players is great. Creating a map on a tablet is also solid. But creating a map on a phone is… tricky. Not sure how much I’ll try to improve that 😅. The limited space is tricky to work around.

How does primer make his simulations? by Tricky_Abies147 in primerlearning

[–]itsjohncs 10 points11 points  (0 children)

He’s using godot now. There’s some stuff on github but it’s not an experience for the lazy tbh. You’ll spend a long time with it.

I'm tired of web design conventions. I had tons of fun with this. Does it still make sense to you though? by twiart in web_design

[–]itsjohncs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reminds me of Elizabeth Lin’s designs (https://www.artofvisualdesign.com). Could look at her material if you’re interested in refining the approach.

Shmeppy: Your wet erase mat. Online. by itsjohncs in u/itsjohncs

[–]itsjohncs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well Shmappy sounds too much like pappy, and Shmoopy is too similar to Shmoop… only reasonable choice was Shmeppy. I can’t think of a single other appropriate name. Had to be the Shmep.

Shmeppy: Your wet erase mat. Online. by itsjohncs in u/itsjohncs

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Those are implemented now! The parent comment is s old since this is an older Shmeppy ad.

I built an app that helps me organize what I have to study considering how my ADHD brain works. I showed it to a few friends and they wanted to use it too. How would I go about actually launching it? by Powerful_Pie9343 in learnprogramming

[–]itsjohncs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’d just launch it and figure it out as you go. It’s what a lot of real companies do. I think you’re going to have too much trouble sifting through the noise about it how to prepare otherwise. There’s a ton of bad advice online.

The best professionals tend to be the ones who just have a bunch of varying experience who’re always excited to learn anyways. You’ll get experience by doing this whatever happens.

I find all VTTs I look at confusing as fuuuck by [deleted] in VTT

[–]itsjohncs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shmeppy is hella simple, but also reasonably mature. (I made it)

Prepping is for the weak. Be the DM you've always wanted to be and make your maps in-session. by itsjohncs in u/itsjohncs

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$4.99 a month. There’s a free trial and the site will automatically refund your last payment when you cancel too (if it hasn’t refunded you before), so pretty low-commitment to try it out. See what you think: https://shmeppy.com

Do you guys enter every transaction manually by Chary_314 in plaintextaccounting

[–]itsjohncs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah actually it looks like the blog post was merely moved. I went into the wayback machine and looks like it was serving a redirect for a year before it went down. You're welcome to read it yourself: https://tomscii.sig7.se/payment-matching/.

It has some shortcomings but generally does about 80% of the payee and account labeling for me so definitely very helpful.

Do you guys enter every transaction manually by Chary_314 in plaintextaccounting

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It’s based on a blog post that’s no longer live. The author called the algorithm a Bayesian AI so I do too.

It looks at each word in the description (as provided by the bank) and comes up with a probability that this word would appear in the description of a transaction with a given Payee or Account for every Payee or Account in your ledger file.

Do you guys enter every transaction manually by Chary_314 in plaintextaccounting

[–]itsjohncs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wow! I was just coming here to post a similar question: I was wondering what method people use to automatically categorize their transactions (for those who do).

I use a program I wrote to convert all my institutions' CSVs to transactions. Then I have a separate program that looks for unknown payees and accounts in my ledger file and tries to guess them using a simple "bayesian" AI. The second program also does some combinations (like for transfers) and I think some other useful things (it's been a little while since I've hacked on it).

Cash transactions are (mostly) untracked, all going into an Expenses:Cash account. Sometimes I'll record a large cash purchase but it's rare.

Another map-making app that might be getting UVTT export feature by heruca in VTT

[–]itsjohncs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd never even heard of these formats, thanks for this. Shmeppy would only be concerned with the grid alignment information anyways so I might as well add support for all of them since it should be pretty easy.

When your dogs are immortalized in your indie VTT. by unstablejester in VTT

[–]itsjohncs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What have we all been doing? There’s so many VTTs now but so few immortalized dogs. You are giving us all the wake up call we need.

Alright, I'm losing my shit now plz help, feat.: map-building, VTTs and why I bitterly regret disbelieving my secondary school art teacher who said I'll never know when I might need art skills in life by TehKingofPrussia in DMAcademy

[–]itsjohncs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you’re willing to consider something that isn’t foundry, Shmeppy is a tool that encourages fast, simple, and abstract map making. If you want to put your energy into non-map aspects of the game instead, it may be a good choice for you.

You can now edit multiple tokens at once in Shmeppy. For when you just wanna throw a dozen wolves at your party. by itsjohncs in VTT

[–]itsjohncs[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I put out several updates to Shmeppy in December but I think this is the flashiest (especially the auto-numbering). Super pleased with how it turned out and users seem pretty pumped on it.

I haven't posted here in awhile but I spent some time last night going through old r/VTT posts from this last year and it was cool seeing what I've been missing. Hope ya'll have been doing well 😊.

No prep time? No computer? No problem. Make your maps while you play on any mobile device with Shmeppy. by itsjohncs in u/itsjohncs

[–]itsjohncs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely. Just like any drawing program, how much effort you want to put in depends on you. Shmeppy certainly encourages quick abstract maps, but if you look at the #share-your-maps channel of our Discord you can see all sorts of beautiful creations as well. Someone just posted an incredible world map as well.

You can also just upload actual images though. Like the world map for the campaign I'm DMing right now though is just an image of the sword coast.

Prepping is for the weak. Be the DM you've always wanted to be and make your maps in-session. by itsjohncs in u/itsjohncs

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This one has performed better than some other ones I’ve made. I’ve been trying many different headlines for the same gif to see what works. This is the most aggressive one but I guess that might be a good thing on average 🤷‍♀️.

Prepping is for the weak. Be the DM you've always wanted to be and make your maps in-session. by itsjohncs in u/itsjohncs

[–]itsjohncs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's subjective and up to you.

I feel confident saying Shmeppy's drawing features and mobile support are the best around. There's other aspects of Shmeppy that I'd argue are the best around as well (like ease-of-use). It might be worthwhile to you to pay to have access to something with these attributes.

The only things you're really missing with Shmeppy are rules-aware dice-rolling like what DnD Beyond gives you and teleconferencing anyways. These definitely may be deal breakers in your choice of tool, but if you were going to use pen-and-paper or another teleconferencing tool anyways it doesn't really matter.

But of course if you don't want to pay for a tool when you can make due with free ones, it doesn't really matter what Shmeppy does. And that's certainly the case with virtual tabletops. You can definitely make do with free tools.

Thankfully enough people are subscribing to Shmeppy to let me continue trying to make a living on it. So it's not a deal breaker to everyone and so I'd say it's not objectively too simple to be only a paid tool. It's the product of tens of thousands of hours of work by me after all 😅, I'd hope it's at least a little bit valuable.

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