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by whatupdave 15y ago
Paying by the hour was proving to be too confusing. We'd rather get people to pay for features and added value, so we moved to a much simpler pricing model!
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by whatupdave 15y ago
Seems ok to me! http://www.downforeveryone.com/minefold.com We're keeping a close eye on it ;)
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by whatupdave 15y ago
Hey HN, dave from Minefold here. Would love any feedback and happy to answer any questions about our service you might have.
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Minefold (YC W12) Launches Affordable, On-Demand Platform For Game Hosting(techcrunch.com)
131 points by whatupdave 15y ago|45 comments
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by whatupdave 15y ago
If you run your server in offline mode it won't validate the username with Mojang and you can add any number of bots. Just add this to your server.properties file: online-mode=false I doubt Mojang have any sort of anti-bot policies. Individ
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Playing Minecraft at work? Connect Github's Hubot to your server(blog.minefold.com)
30 points by whatupdave 15y ago|3 comments
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The Twelve-Factor App(12factor.net)
15 points by whatupdave 15y ago|1 comments
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Use Chef to manage windows servers(opscode.com)
3 points by whatupdave 15y ago|1 comments
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Patent trolls are going after the little guys(aaron.griffith.name)
3 points by whatupdave 15y ago|0 comments
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by whatupdave 15y ago
Not sure about offering it for free, it's a possibility. I may try a lite version of some type. That worked for Trainyard. I briefly looked at Unity and thought it looked great but more suited to 3d games. I thought I could move faster with
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by whatupdave 15y ago
I got some peverse joy out of writing code that could chunk my 3d models, send them over the bus and coordinate the two co-processors. So many late nights....
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by whatupdave 15y ago
Thanks for pointing that out Mike, I've corrected the title. You're right too, when I started development I'd just bought the iPad and there weren't a lot of quality games on the device. Especially games that weren't just scaled up iPhone g
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My first iPad game: Stats and lessons(whatupdave.com)
81 points by whatupdave 15y ago|15 comments
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Build automation tools for iOS developers(github.com)
1 points by whatupdave 16y ago|0 comments
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by whatupdave 16y ago
I've found it to be a really great experience stepping out of a world where I felt like I was constantly re-inventing the wheel into a world where I was constantly seeing the result of a lot of eyeballs and a lot of great decisions. Once I