Hacker News: rayboy1995

New comment by rayboy1995 in "OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III"

rayboy1995 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:13:40 +0000

I am the dev of Pocket Squadron (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bombsight....) and a few years ago I tried to make a build for iOS due to many player requests. I did not have a mac so I setup a mac VM and a dev account to start making builds and see how big of a lift it would be. My account was banned unfortunately. Still no iOS build to this day, I'm probably missing out on a good bit of money.

New comment by rayboy1995 in "V-JEPA 2 world model and new benchmarks for physical reasoning"

rayboy1995 — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:57:46 +0000

> Monkey see other monkey cannot go through wall, monkey don't try go through wall.

I mean... we are just monkeys. Did we not learn this way when we were younger?

New comment by rayboy1995 in "Are you the same person you used to be? (2022)"

rayboy1995 — Thu, 01 May 2025 22:10:00 +0000

This is true, I think its good to find a balance between living life and making sure you at least take some good memories.

I have had a number of times I just don't remember a moment, only for a friend to show an old photo they happened to see again and a flood of good memories come back.

New comment by rayboy1995 in "S1: A $6 R1 competitor?"

rayboy1995 — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 14:30:30 +0000

This is the difference between science and engineering. What they have done is engineering. If the result is 90% of the way there with barely any effort, its best to move on to something else that may be low hanging fruit than to spend time chasing that 10%.

New comment by rayboy1995 in "S1: A $6 R1 competitor?"

rayboy1995 — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 14:11:25 +0000

What is the source for the diminishing returns? I would like to read about it as I have only seen papers referring to the scaling law still applying.

Show HN: AntWar.io – Webbased Multiplayer SimAnt

rayboy1995 — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 16:16:28 +0000

Article URL: https://antwar.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17927307

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: SpaceGolf.io – A fun multiplayer web game based around gravity

rayboy1995 — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 13:52:38 +0000

Article URL: https://spacegolf.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16716031

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rayboy1995 in "GitHub down"

rayboy1995 — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 15:20:06 +0000

Status page apparently isn't automatic because it is yet to be updated.

Show HN: Not Checkers – A Multiplayer Twist on the Classic Game

rayboy1995 — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 13:21:31 +0000

Article URL: http://notcheckers.bombsightgames.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15408897

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by rayboy1995 in "Ask HN: What is everyone currently working on?"

rayboy1995 — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 13:42:40 +0000

Haha not a problem at all.

New comment by rayboy1995 in "Ask HN: What is everyone currently working on?"

rayboy1995 — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 15:31:57 +0000

You would be correct. Our current implementation of those are fairly bare bones, but still encompass the main needs of the businesses we are targeting.

New comment by rayboy1995 in "Ask HN: How did you 'do things that don't scale' for your B2B startup?"

rayboy1995 — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 15:25:14 +0000

While we were building the MVP for https://pupkeep.com/ we decided to try and not automate anything that we didn't have to so we can ship core features faster.

For instance I was going to build a complicated job system to handle payouts to different company locations, but I realized that until we get thousands of customers I can just send the payouts manually by clicking some buttons in Stripe. A bit tedious but instead of building and debugging that we now have another full feature built out improves our users experience.

New comment by rayboy1995 in "Ask HN: What is everyone currently working on?"

rayboy1995 — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 18:48:05 +0000

Really just prioritization. We prioritize everything based on its usefulness/need. We are also in "MVP mode" right now so anything that isn't a part of those core features mentioned or isn't essential is put on the back burner.

New comment by rayboy1995 in "Ask HN: What is everyone currently working on?"

rayboy1995 — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 15:47:17 +0000

Yeah I was surprised, though most other solutions are very old and slow so I really only consider us having one or two other real competitors.

The booking and paying online is actually just a small portion of the needs most of these businesses have. In addition to appointment management we also handle keeping track of customers, customer's pets(vaccination requirements, dietary needs, etc), inventory management, employee scheduling and role management, and analytics for it all.

Our competitors seem to handle parts of these but we are looking to be an all encompassing solution while simplifying the UX. We are also targeting multiple location support for enterprise customers, with our competitors multiple locations seem to be an afterthought. On top of that our app is faster and cheaper per month, offering discounts for multiple locations and no setup costs (other than buying optional hardware).

New comment by rayboy1995 in "Ask HN: What is everyone currently working on?"

rayboy1995 — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 13:30:19 +0000

I'm working on https://pupkeep.com/, it is cloud based kennel software. For places that do pet boarding and grooming.

The market has a lot of competition, but it seems most solutions are just too bulky and slow. We recently went on a trip to various boarding places around us and received good feedback about our product. I'm very excited to see what happens next.

New comment by rayboy1995 in "S3 was down"

rayboy1995 — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 20:36:56 +0000

We just switched to US West Oregon and I'm not looking back.

New comment by rayboy1995 in "An Embarrassing Tale: Why my server could only handle 10 players"

rayboy1995 — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 12:49:51 +0000

I use Socket.io just fine for my game, though I do implement it differently and send binary packets of my own protocol instead of JSON. I can see what you mean for new people in the field using unmodified events though.

New comment by rayboy1995 in "An Electronic Voting Firm Exposes 1.8M Chicagoans"

rayboy1995 — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 18:50:42 +0000

Yes not only that, they have changed the UI so much that it explicitly confirms that you want to make this data public.

New comment by rayboy1995 in "How I tried to get into game development and failed"

rayboy1995 — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 18:14:17 +0000

I've been working on something similar for a bit as a hobby, though I haven't updated it in a while it is pretty fun when there are a bunch of players on.

https://rocketblitz.com

I think that getting the controls right is what will matter the most in the end. Until then the game will go no where.

New comment by rayboy1995 in "How MTA shut down my app for Penn Station commuters"

rayboy1995 — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 13:20:39 +0000

"They also stopped publishing the track number on the website — so going back to scraping was not an option either."