SimianLogic2

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by SimianLogic2 6y ago
My son, alone? Nope. But I'm still getting royalty checks, so someone other than 8-12 year olds are playing. The world is a big place, and not everyone has an iPhone. Are fewer people playing than back in 2008? Yes. Is it enough to be
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by SimianLogic2 6y ago
I mean, yes? That's the point I was making? I see a lot of other people piling on to also rebut this bit, which is what I was specifically targeting: > These days, every one of Kongregate's users has a smartphone with free game
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by SimianLogic2 6y ago
You could just pull number of google results as a proxy. You have the link to the google search now, being able to sort or filter by that would weed out a lot of junk. Would also be nice to sort/filter by Wayback hits.
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by SimianLogic2 6y ago
Does brand advertising even work on FB? All these big brands pulling out seems like PR more than anything that is really going to hurt FB long term. Seems like the big money is in D2C and retargeting, which (AFAIK) is not cost effective for
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by SimianLogic2 6y ago
My dream has always been for one of the consoles to buy the scraps of Flash from Adobe, add good controller/save support, and then open it up to developers to make 2D games. Having shipped games in Java, Flash/AS3, haxe, objective
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by SimianLogic2 6y ago
My oldest is 8 and he plays a TON of browser games (no smartphone yet, doesn't have the password to download stuff on his iPad).
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by SimianLogic2 6y ago
This is basically how I use notion now -- mostly "code blocks" full of Markdown. The split panes look really impressive. This is definitely worth keeping an eye on if I ever decide to bail on Notion (which just went free).
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by SimianLogic2 6y ago
My mom is a retired teacher, and she's been doing remote preK for my 5yo and my niece for a couple of hours a day so the grownups can get work done. Evaluating whiteboards for a 60-year-old and two 5-year-olds to use together with vide
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by SimianLogic2 6y ago
I built a digital whiteboard that was a little better suited for 5-year-olds than the current crop for my mom to use with my youngest and my niece. Figured out how to properly use the bread machine (making approx 1 loaf a day, currently hav
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by SimianLogic2 6y ago
This seems massively less "dumb" and "debuggable" than say, templated HTML that's rendered on the server (erb, blade, whatever). I get that it's trying to be "dumb components" but maybe that's an
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by SimianLogic2 7y ago
My current job is a 4-day workweek (not the whole company, just me), but it's also not the most interesting job. I've seen other jobs posted that look more interesting in the last year or two (and would likely be for higher pay),
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by SimianLogic2 7y ago
> The life of hunter-gatherers was complex, but it didn't change as much as life does now. I agree with this sentiment but draw a different conclusion. Stepping outside of your comfort zone as a hunter gatherer was a lot more danger
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by SimianLogic2 7y ago
If you’re working on small sites which are worth ~30x monthly net, a $250/month recurring cost will remove $7,500 from the value of your business... or a month of engineering at $90k/year. If you’re technical yourself, build it fo
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by SimianLogic2 7y ago
I used cygwin to do web development circa 2007/2008. It was a huge pain in the ass and one of the main reasons I switched to Macs. I've been back on Windows for a couple of years now using WSL and it's been pretty great. I&#x
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by SimianLogic2 7y ago
I did. We were out-of-towners at the time, so I would use that to build a strike list of 10-20 properties. We would fly in and do as many visits as we could schedule in a weekend. Currently at 8 doors (that SFH, a tri, a quad), but now that
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by SimianLogic2 7y ago
Why did you decide on this business model (essentially downside insurance paid for by equity if I'm understanding it right) over something simpler like, say, subscription access to a newsletter? What's to stop someone from signing
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by SimianLogic2 7y ago
This is a bad take. Save your snark for somewhere else. I didn’t say it was the wrong choice or even a bad choice, just that I was surprised. Ruby and jquery are certainly modern technologies. My surprise was more a factor that maybe I had
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by SimianLogic2 7y ago
I still use it for most websites I build. Ruby + jquery are still great! I’ve inherited a ton of backbone, angular, react projects and it’s always a pain sourcing devs for whatever random thing a project was written in 1-8 years ago. Jquery
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by SimianLogic2 7y ago
How do renewals work? With S3 I upload something and then pay for it + bandwidth until I delete it. Would I need to know how long I need storage for ahead of time? Estimated bandwidth? I run a video rendering service that currently uploads
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by SimianLogic2 7y ago
Can someone ELI5 why you need a blockchain for this? Another startup could make a non-blockchain version of this that uses similar syncing technology to GDrive / Dropbox file sync that just syncs other people's stuff instead of yo
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by SimianLogic2 7y ago
This is mostly a problem for devs who do bundles. A users pays $20 for 10 games but only wants 3 of them, so they sell the other 7 keys. G2A has done some shady things (including trying to buy favorable press coverage), but I do think it&#x
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by SimianLogic2 7y ago
My only complaint would be that my dog is an asshole (our fault, should've never given him people food). I'd love to be able to close the door to the kitchen and leave something out on the counter, but if you don't watch him
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by SimianLogic2 7y ago
I was the opposite with my kids. I wanted to be able to do stuff in the kitchen while also keeping an eye on them in the living room.
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by SimianLogic2 7y ago
Reminds me of the puzzles for an iOS game I put out a couple of years ago: Little Broken Robots. In that game you had numbers but could “walk” out from a number that many spaces. You had to fill in all the empty spaces. My strategy for gene
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by SimianLogic2 8y ago
Reminds me a lot of the Indie Fund in the game space, but slightly more profit-centered (which is not a bad thing). How did you settle on a 3-5x return cap? Are you planning to tune that over time? Did you consider a graded return schedule?
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by SimianLogic2 8y ago
I did animation in college before switching to programming in grad school, so once I get everything running smoothly I plan to make new templates for fun. Most of the competitors are SAAS and geared at agencies. I’m basically the low end of
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by SimianLogic2 8y ago
There are brokers. I used FEInternational.
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by SimianLogic2 8y ago
I bought a site last summer that sells YouTube intro videos for $5/$10 a pop: http://introcave.com I made about $13k off it, which sounds good but was really only about $20/hour. Hoping to grow it quite a bit this year
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by SimianLogic2 8y ago
There are brokerages. I read about the codetree sale on HN a few years back (just google “codetree sale”) and signed up for the FEInternational list.
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by SimianLogic2 8y ago
I didn't build one from scratch, but I recently purchased https://introcave.com for low 6 figures. Though my background is more full stack, my current day job is mostly front end. Most of the product/ux/ui work is

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