rotub

I'm making a PC game called Doggy Don't Care. You're a dog left at home alone getting up to mischief https://store.steampowered.com/app/2438180/Doggy_Dont_Care/

My background is in website development which I left to pursue indie game development full-time.

I'm currently making a game called Doggy Don't Care on Steam.

Anyway, I've been curious how much AI has changed the web development scene since I left 5 years ago. So today I put together this website in a couple of hours with the help of Claude AI.

It fixes a real problem for me as an indie dev: The data source is howtomarketagame.com/festivals (google spreadsheet) which is quite bloated and full of old/redundant entries. This website updates itself once a day based on that spreadsheet and throws out all the irrelevant ones.

It's been a wake up call for me being able to "vibe-code" a whole web app idea from concept to published within a couple hours and on top of that it will run itself for the foreseeable future. I hardly recognize the web development industry today

Sad to see it postponed but what is another day when it has been so many years waiting! :) Will be great to see it launch when it does

I quit my job in web development for the same reasons a few years ago and have been much happier for it. Good luck!

I made Swoopy Boi on my own besides UI design. http://swoopyboigame.com

Lol! the irony

I've only got this one blog post about https://medium.com/@rotub/the-making-of-swoopy-boi-fa175f3ed... and you can follow me on twitter if you like as I post stuff there sometimes. http://twitter.com/rotub

(I used Unity)

I launched my first small mobile game this year! [1]

I recently started my next game which is a story-based platformer. It will be tiny/small and it's hard not to think it will not be enough, but this post has confirmed for me that small is ok, if not better. Thanks!

1: - https://apps.apple.com/au/app/swoopy-boi/id1494073988 - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.RotubGames...

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/swoopy-boi/id1494073988

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.RotubGames...

That's really cool

I once got to the top for a non-tech related post when I shared my story about skateboarding 86km from Sydney to Wollongong. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5530044

Still amazed it was well received here and grateful for all the friendly and encouraging comments

http://hn.premii.com/ has a dark mode. Also available as an App. Best HN experience I've found.

I agree.

I was in the web dev world early enough to also be uploading pages and files via FTP to production for high profile clients.

In the last 3-5 years with the addition of gulp, sass, npm, etc. it has all become way too complicated and saturated. I found myself with way to many options and worse - opinions - to filter through, learn, and master enough to use in production. Mostly this learning would be done in my own time outside of work and I really started to lose interest/drive to do it.

As a web developer myself I had never come across a CMS that made life easier for the every day person - friends would always come to me asking for help with setting up or amending their blog.

Then Squarespace came and I've been so impressed with it. It is the first and still only CMS that makes creating and maintaining* a blog super easy.

* images were always a problem with Wordpress and other sites... uploading, resizing, and more so moving and placing images on a page was always a "problem" for the non-tech-savvy but Squarespace handles this perfectly

...and does Starbucks commission their own chairs? Serious question