First game is https://geocentric.top where users can sculpt a planet collaboratively and place trees or houses (for now very limited). I plan on making it an idle sim where players will be able to interact by dropping some food/events for the creatures on it to evolve through time.

Second, a remote logger/metrics/user management tool where once can track all their logs, live metrics, uptimes, identify users, etc. I hope to have a v1 during this first quarter and I'm currently my first user as I have it hosted at https://app.getboringmetrics.com to centralize all my side projects into a single platform.

After using tools like Sentry on apps serving millions of users, I always felt I was missing a cheap and dead simple approach to following what happened in my apps and apis, and basically became my first customer for all of my side projects and even got some friends using it for their SaaS and apps.

[0] https://app.getboringmetrics.com

If you ever have feedback/advices, don't hesitate to reach me out on contact[at]halftheopposite.dev and I'll happily answer.

So far I’ve put all the side projects I manage (5 of them) and it’s working great. I can follow and query the logs, the JSON payloads by path, see live metrics like number of users currently online, etc. Even if I don’t get any customers I’ll continue developing it for my own needs! Will soon be adding alerts through webhooks, slack, discord, etc.

If you want to try it out: https://app.getboringmetrics.com (no landing page yet).

Edit: just want to say that if you want to try the software but not keep it, you can create an account in under 10 seconds, send a curl request to see logs arrive in realtime, and delete your account in 5 seconds. I do not track anything and do not keep a single piece of data.

I am almost done with the landing page and don't think I'll put much more into it, and will continue working on the API itself. But I still plan on adding a playable game into the 3D scene just for the sake of it and to learn. But so far I'm struggling at projecting a 3D camera render to a texture inside an already existing 3D context.

[0] https://the-project-e609e.web.app/ (temporary domain for development)

After a few weeks of work, and sharing the initial concept with some friends and colleagues, I was encouraged to create a mobile version of my puzzle game: Flipcards.

The concept is simple: you're given a photo and a set of moves that correspond to either a clockwise or counter-clockwise rotation of 90 degrees. You then need to find between 4 rotated photos which one corresponds to the sum of rotations before the end of the round.

There are currently 3 levels of difficulty, high scores, and a way for users to use their own photos from the gallery to play with. Finally, on iOS, in the home screen, you have a physics-based background which reacts to sensors and user interactions.

I know some of you are fond of puzzle games and I was looking for honest feedback on the game and store page:

- Is the gameplay fun? - What could I add/remove to improve it? - Is the tutorial explicit enough? - Are the store page clear enough on the end product?

Links:

- iOS: https://apps.apple.com/jo/app/flipcards-photo-puzzle-game/id... - Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.halftheopp...

If you're interested about the tech stack: React Native, Expo, and Skia (even the animated background on iOS).

Happy to hear out from you!

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Given the pricepoint and specs of the BeeLink, its availability for shipping in France, and the all-in-one design of the SER7 with USB-4, that seems like a great option to explore.

I will take a deeper look at their other offerings as well.

As the title already states I am currently looking at some hardware alternatives that could replace my current, and very outdated, Windows PC with the same form factor as Mac minis.

I already own several Mac devices (phones, MBPs M1/M2), and mostly kept a Windows PC for so long for:

- Gaming (mostly old games from my Steam library and ISOs).

- Pictures & videos.

- NTFS HDD and USB keys (ex-FAT and other formats do not always work reliably).

With these current usages, my ultimate goal is to find something as powerful as what I have right now (GTX 260 SLI over 13 years old, 10 years old Intel core i5, 16GB DDR3, and an SSD), which shouldn't be that hard, but have it as small as possible, and within the same price point as the Mac minis.

The closest thing I've found so far is a brand called GEEKOM which seems to produce exactly what I need, but I do not have the impression to find genuine feedback on the hardware capacity and quality.

EDIT: I live in Europe if that matters for availability and shipping.

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There's a feature to write a note and leave it on the page for others (with the extension installed) to see and maybe have luck someone contacting you.

https://github.com/halftheopposite/graph-dungeon-generator: what was supposed to be circular graph dungeon generator, ended up being a tree dungeon generator.

https://webcursors.click - I should have spent more time thinking about solving a problem that doesn't exist and clearly you can feel that there's something missing.

And didn't knew this service existed, so created everything myself so far.

Editing/deleting notes would require some sort of authentication for the backend to recognise ownership of the notes, but this could be a great incentive toward pushing users to sign up for the tool.

Will definitely look at scaling down font size for longer text (it should already be the case though but doesn't work well with long words or URLs).

Good luck if you ever attempt to build it :)

Content moderation is a nightmare and I've been working in technical/product fields where this is a daily issue. The first choice was to make everything ephemeral: messages are not stored anywhere, and notes expires after n days. At least this covers some part of the issue, but this is only possible in the short term.

In the long term, if things go good for this extension, meaning more users and more things to moderate, I will have to introduce downvotes, reports, and most importantly some sort of authentication. That will still not be enough, and eventually I will have to resolve to text moderation APIs or language models (which we already do at work).

But I hope to stay in a sweet spot with enough users but not too many, and great collaboration! But one can always dream.

For critical mass, this is why I’m developing features that are asynchronous (ex: notes) or app wide (ex: games that you can join with other users online no matter the website or page you're on).

This idea immediately clicked in me, and my first thought was: "Why not make it so others can see your notes as well?". And soon it transformed into something much more complex where users could not only write notes, but also interact directly with other users of the extension through chat, gis, and cursors!

It took me a few weeks, but I was able to read through docs, work on the extension itself (content script and service worker), socket.io, node, build up a website, publish it in the Chrome store.

I've introduced it to my coworkers and a few other devs, and so far, each one of them came up with a different usage for the extension, but loved the idea of adding a social aspect to browsing.

I thought it would be great sharing it with everyone around here and gather feedback from the HN crowd!

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Each website/page (depending on your preferences) becomes an ephemeral channel where you can see and interact with others users browsing the internet. It's still in a WIP shape but very functional.

Website: https://webcursors.click/ Extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/web-cursors/chcedo...