I love reading this kind of open, honest postmortem. By the way, I think the people here saying things like, "Oh, he should've just done x, y, and z to solve h

I love reading this kind of open, honest postmortem. By the way, I think the people here saying things like, "Oh, he should've just done x, y, and z to solve his problems," are most likely kidding themselves. Developing and releasing decent software is hard. Making a financially successful indie web game is even harder, no matter your process because a substantial parts art and luck which are inherently not predictable. The author seemed to pretty successfully developed and released the game and did a half-decent job on marketing it despite being a complete novice in that area. All and all, a pretty nice accomplishment.