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Hey HN! A few years ago I got into D&D by GMing for a group of friends, but found even our casual game generated tons of lore. I looked around for software to h
by braden-lk 5y ago
Hey HN! A few years ago I got into D&D by GMing for a group of friends, but found even our casual game generated tons of lore. I looked around for software to help me organize, but didn’t find anything I liked. I decided to make my own, and when I shared the prototype it got really great reception! After several iterations, I now make a living off of it, helping GMs and other creatives keep their worlds organized. The tech-stack is pretty unique! The web app is mostly offline capable, being powered by CRDTs (yjs, specifically), but I also do some server-side things, such as processing huge maps into tile sets and such. Let me know what you think!
- jrmoynihan 5y agoWhat have been the biggest tech hurdles so far?
- braden-lk 5y agoSo one of my goals to start with was data autonomy. Campaign-planning and worldbuilding is really personal, so I wanted to find a way for users to feel in control of their data, while still having robust online features. Implementing a hybrid CRDT application is really hard, it turns out! Especially when your users are super prolific. So building an offline-capable system, able to gracefully support collaboration, that would still scale to thousands of docs, has been the hardest part. I think fundamentally we accomplished that goal, but there's still lots of improvements I want to make. Another hurdle that fellow developers might be familiar with is dealing with IndexedDB across many platforms... Including Safari.