Thank you, I'm glad to get validation from someone directly involved with recruitment!
I think a lot of people overlook how important it is to account for people doing recruitment related tasks. Scalability and simplicity really shine for that.
My first two games were built with my own hacky web sockets implementation. From a software perspective it's pretty messy, but it gets the job done haha.
I actually had built an alpha version of my 3rd game with my own networking code, but because it is more of a real-time game, there were tons of bugs. Switching to use Hathora for the back-end logic has made the game much more stable so I can finally work to release the game.
You can check out my first two games here: https://gomobo.app/. They play kind of similar to Jackbox games, but with more strategy board game elements. Would love to hear what you think!
Not dsiddharth, but for what it's worth I am using Hathora for my upcoming game (it's almost complete!). Their product still very new, but they have been extremely helpful with every step of the process building with Hathora.
They have two products - an open-source dev framework (free) and a cloud-hosting product (paid).
My games will likely never reach millions players, but my first two games led to over 1,000 sign-ups and I've made over $1k in revenue (which I'm super proud of). I can report back with how my newest game does after it launches.
I’ve gotten to know Harsh and we even built a game together with Hathora. We made a digital board game together in a week.
I’m a dev that makes web games (gomobo.app) but I’ve always wanted to spend more time building the game logic and UI and less on the networking and infrastructure stuff. I think Hathora is a great way to make your next game idea wayyy faster.
Isn't that a bit overly pedantic? I agree that some of these examples are far-from passive, but this wouldn't be much of a thread if everyone just listed some form of passive investing. I think the heart of this thread is near-passive income sources, like 1-2 hours per week.
This is great, my main use case for my Paperwhite is to read in bed with the other lights off. A warmer yellow light would make it a lot nicer for that.
I think the major hangup for this discussion is that each of us probably have a different definition of what counts as a friend. I think there's certainly a gradient between "friendly"
and "friend", but I honestly don't think the exact label matters much. For the sake of my discussion, I will consider a "friend" someone that I would want to hang out with 1-on-1.
But I think there are certain boundaries that both sides must be respectful of. For example, as a manager you need to make it clear to your employee/friend when you are communicating as a manager vs as a friend. That distinction should not be left ambiguous as that will make things potentially awkward if there is a disconnect.
As an employee, you need to respect that fact that your manager cannot tell you everything, and understanding that being their friend doesn't mean they will give you any special treatment. You should be extra careful to avoid this, as your manager will be sensitive if they notice you are trying to take advantage of the friendship in any way.
In the end, I think these boundaries can cause the friendship to not progress past a certain point if you are actively working together, mainly because it is just extra work to move past a certain level of friendship if so.
Your assumption requires that no one actually wants or will buy the 256gb option. I for one definitely would consider it, all my current computers have only 256gb and I haven't had issues (external hard drives are cheap).
I think a point of confusion is that "startup" means different things to different people. I believe the parent comment here really means "average, early-stage SF startup" in place of "startup".
I think a lot of people overlook how important it is to account for people doing recruitment related tasks. Scalability and simplicity really shine for that.