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by hemmert 5y ago
(Not a single (!) journalist contacted me after Escape Team was #2 Product of the Day. I would have hoped / guessed that do happen, but it didn't.)
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by hemmert 5y ago
On its launch day, I posted my side project to ProductHunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/escape-team It got #2 Product of the Day, 563 upvotes (its 'GIF trailer' helped a lot, I think!) in total. It was
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by hemmert 5y ago
Thanks for that gift of an article!
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by hemmert 5y ago
Yes of course, here is a spoiler-free one: https://youtu.be/_lDrUM8_hL0
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by hemmert 5y ago
For App and Play Store that commission is down to 15% for 'smaller' businesses (< $1 million per year) actually.
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by hemmert 5y ago
Amazing dashboard! Place cards are a more seasonal business, but the SaaS seems to take of nicely! Congrats!
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by hemmert 5y ago
Oh I saw that! It is amazing! I recommended it to a friend who is in the right situation :-)
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by hemmert 5y ago
(I am really happy paying the App Store/Play Store the commission, by the way, as they handle the global tax management - I wouldn’t want to send a tax report to every country in which some user made a $1.99 in-app purchase…)
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by hemmert 5y ago
Mine scaled to about $800/month this year (from $200/month in the previous years): Escape Team, a printable escape room https://www.escape-team.com All revenue is generated via in-app purchases, and it is about 60% iOS
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by hemmert 5y ago
(It would, for example, be great to have an app on my phone that I could use to oversee my new customer service employee responding to emails, without me having to go into my email. I'm avoiding mobile email to maintain my sanity, and
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Ask HN: How do you professionalize/outsource customer service?
4 points by hemmert 5y ago|2 comments
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by hemmert 5y ago
Here's also a starter kit for custom missions: https://www.escape-team.com/free-escape-room-diy-kit
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by hemmert 5y ago
I have missions 6-9 on my desk, the audio is recorded, and finally, our daughter gives us some time to launch the update in the next weeks ;)
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by hemmert 5y ago
Let's hope that server will not collapse under today's attention overload ;)
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by hemmert 5y ago
Ahhh, stupid me. I made a last minute change with the newsletter field, and that had a fixed width. Should be better now. :-)
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by hemmert 5y ago
Thank you! I built it with Kirby: https://getkirby.com/ – super easy, really great to customize! (And multi-language!)
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by hemmert 5y ago
It also supports MP3 audio narration in user-created missions, but only via linking to your own Dropbox, which would host the MP3. (I‘m super paranoid about hosting user-created content and copyright stuff.)
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by hemmert 5y ago
No way, that server has been stable since I rented it 10 years ago. ;)
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by hemmert 5y ago
I also made a little mission editor for it: https://www.escape-team.com/create People are using it to create custom escape rooms, at home, at work and especially in education. Finally, a chemistry class about defusing a bom
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by hemmert 5y ago
Space Team was indeed the inspiration for the name, as well as the mechanic of „Keep talking and nobody explodes“, having physical paper on the table.
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by hemmert 5y ago
Looking forward to hear your opinion! Have fun :) I do get the feeling that my good old Webserver from 2009 might be retiring soon…
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by hemmert 5y ago
And here my chess expertise shows its boundaries ;) I‘ll see if I can fix those bishops and labels :)
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by hemmert 5y ago
I finally found the time to update my wife‘s and my moonlight project: Escape Team. Have fun defusing those bombs :-) (a.k.a. ”How to survive mandatory family get togethers over the holiday season“)
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Show HN: Escape Team(escape-team.com)
89 points by hemmert 5y ago|27 comments
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by hemmert 5y ago
I totally agree.
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by hemmert 5y ago
I tried it - and I (despite having ohmyzsh installed) like it! One thing I was wondering: How does the - largely critical, much negative feedback involved - discussion here on HB impact your download numbers? Is it positive after all?
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by hemmert 5y ago
I happen to own exa-byte.com, in case you need a domain for it ;-) (In 1998, in school, I looked up in our math book what would come after mega, giga... 20 years later, just as fresh and useless as on day one ;))
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by hemmert 6y ago
(It also has DB integration!)
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by hemmert 6y ago
Noodl! https://www.noodl.net/ Highly visual, great for people who have difficulties finding curly braces and the semicolon on their keyboards ;)
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by hemmert 6y ago
Awesome, Eric! Keep it up!

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