Saw a post on Twitter of someone doing it with their spouse and I though lt about creating a web app to help me with colour generation and also grid generation.
The first version was the 1v1 mode and I tried it with a few friends. Later added the squad mode.
A few weeks ago, there was a viral tweet of a colorhunt and in the comments there were several people who said that they would love to participate but they cant because they travel alone, that gave me an idea to create the solo mode. Funny enough it's now the most popular mode in the game.
I do this for fun and also to help me develop my Product Manager skills(would one day love to shift from engineering to product however yet to get an opportunity at my current company). Main reason is just a way to keep InTouch with my friends and just explore colours with them.
You get assigned a random colour and have 24 hours to go out and take photos matching it. The game then generates a photo grid from everything you captured.
Modes:
- Solo → 9 photos by yourself
- 1v1 → compete against a friend, combined grid at the end
- Squad → everyone contributes to a 20-photo grid
No accounts, no app install, no personal data stored. Photos and generated grids auto-delete after 24 hours from Cloudflare R2 storage.
Made it for fun to find a way to do a shared a activity with my girlfriend and also to challenge my friends over the weekends.
Currently redesigning the frontend flow but I am kinda poor at design
Would genuinely appreciate feedback, ideas or anything
Used Codex for the whole project. At first I used claude for the architect of the backend since thats where I usually work and got experience in. The code runner and API endpoints were easy to create for the first prototype. But then it got to the UI and here's where sh1t got real. The first UI was in react though I had specifically told it to use Vue. The code editor and output window were a mess in terms of height, there was too much space between the editor and the output window and no matter how much time I spent prompting it and explaining to it, it just never got it right. Got tired and opened figma, used it to refine it to what I wanted. Shared the code it generated to github, cloned the code locally then told codex to copy the design and finally it got it right.
Then came the hosting where I wanted the code runner endpoint to be in a docker container for security purpose since someone could execute malicious code that took over the server if I just hosted it without some protection and here it kept selecting out of date docker images. Had to manually guide it again on what I needed. Finally deployed and got it working especially with a domain name. Shared it with a few friends and they suggested some UI fixes which took some time.
For the runner security hardening I used Deepseek and claude to generate a list of code that I could run to show potential issues and despite codex showing all was fine, was able to uncover a number of issues then here is where it got weird, it started arguing with me despite showing all the issues present. So I compiled all the issues in one document, shared the dockerfile and linux secomp config tile with claude and the also issues document. It gave me a list of fixes for the docker file to help with security hardening which I shared back with codex and that's when it fixed them.
Currently most of the issues were resolved but the whole process took me a whole week and I am still not yet done, was working most evenings. So I agree that you cannot create a usable product used by lots of users in 30 minutes not unless it's some static website. It's too much work of constant testing and iteration.
Cwn someone explain to me like I'm 5 how the government would invoke defense act and force the company to tailor its model to the military's needs?
For physical goods, I understand, but for software how exactly Is this possible? Like will the government force them to provide API access for free? It's confusing
One day, you will need support and when you do, you will realise why every week there's a top voted post on HN on someone complaining about not reaching Google Support
Kotlin and Golang. I know it6not advisable to learn 2 languages at the same time but I want Kotlin for android apps and Go for backend. Been working alot with python and I want to shift to a different stack and hopefully get a change of careers from Test Automation/ QA to a more coding focused role(backend, android)
Only problem with Hetzner is that they don't seem to accept Accounts created from African countries. Tried creating an account with them twice from Kenya, and in both instances my account got blocked 5 minutes after creation with zero explanation. tried reaching out to support and got zero reply.
I get it's their business and they can do as they please with it, however, maybe tell me before I create an account that you don't accept accounts from my continent
Added a code runner to the SwiftBook documentation to help me learn Swift concepts in the browser without switching back and forth to an IDE