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Show HN: A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation game, finally released
I've seen some interests in (simulation) video games here on HN so I thought I'd share a short version of our story.<p>More than 6 years ago, me and my friend from university were playing around with an idea of making a game we always wanted to play. We worked on it on weekends but the progress was quite slow, especially due to so many dead ends and wasted effort.<p>Eventually however, we solidified our direction and decided to take the risk to resign from our well paid SWE jobs and work on it full time. It took more than a year but yesterday we have finally released it on Steam: <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/1594320/Captain_of_Industry/" rel="nofollow">https://store.steampowered.com/app/1594320/Captain_of_Indust...</a><p>I am still not sure if this was a good decision financially, but unlike in a corporate environment, I am so much happier working on a product that I can put my love into and see people enjoy it, see my direct impact, and be able to make big decisions (although this also adds a lot of stress).<p>I also quite enjoy the added SWE challenges. I had to write so many complex algorithms (path-finding, logistics, serialization, ...) and optimize things down to bits (shaders, compression of in-memory data, ...) that were rarely required by my corp job.<p>Anyhow, this is getting a little long, feel free to ask any questions, I will do my best to answer them.
Show HN: Todool, a full blown environment for managing large trees of task lists
Currently an alpha is available in their Discord server.<p>I'm not the creator, if you have any questions about the program feel free to join the Discord server.
Show HN: Todool, a full blown environment for managing large trees of task lists
Currently an alpha is available in their Discord server.<p>I'm not the creator, if you have any questions about the program feel free to join the Discord server.
Show HN: Git Timeline Generator – Visualize contributions to any Git project
Show HN: Git Timeline Generator – Visualize contributions to any Git project
Show HN: Query Google Sheet data using PostgreSQL clients
Show HN: Query Google Sheet data using PostgreSQL clients
Show HN: DataStation – App to easily query, script, and visualize data
Show HN: DataStation – App to easily query, script, and visualize data
Show HN: Shale – a Ruby object mapper and serializer for JSON, YAML and XML
Show HN: Shale – a Ruby object mapper and serializer for JSON, YAML and XML
Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
Show HN: Multiplayer sudoku. Race to fill in the most squares
https://sudokurace.io is a free, real time multiplayer sudoku board. Invite your friends and race to fill the most squares. All feedback is welcome. MVP was built over the last ~4 days. Lmk what you think!<p>You can play with as many people as you'd like at the same time
Show HN: NetBird – A P2P Network with WebRTC, WireGuard, SSO, and Zero Trust
Hey folks! We have just released NetBird. It is a big update so I decided to share it here and get your feedback :)<p>NetBird creates an overlay peer-to-peer network connecting machines automatically regardless of their location (home, office, data center, container, cloud, or edge environments) unifying virtual private network management experience. It uses ICE protocol (WebRTC) to negotiate p2p connections and WireGuard (kernel module, when possible) to create a fast and encrypted tunnel between machines, falling back to relay (TURN) in case a p2p connection isn't possible. Pretty much just a client application installation is needed, the rest is done by the software!<p>Sharing the project with you wasn't the only purpose of the post. I wanted to discuss the future and vision behind it.
I'm pretty sure that in a few years, such seamless connectivity without the hassle of configuring firewalls, managing IPs, manual key rotations, centralized gateways, etc. will become a commodity and the majority won't be talking about traditional VPNs.<p>But what we think is becoming more relevant is advanced network security. We've seen the rise of Zero Trust with its ZTNA solutions in the past years. There are big vendors like ZScaler or Palo Alto already offering advanced network security features that leverage ML or contextual access controls to allow/block access based on context, not just identity.<p>Why can't this be open-source and built on top of universal connectivity that works anywhere? That is what we are setting as a mission for our project - to bring seamless connectivity and advanced network security together in a single open-source solution.
What do you think about it?<p>We welcome contributors and if your excited of what we are building, feel free to reach out to us!<p>P.S. We've been previously know as Wiretrustee :)
Show HN: I built a cyberdeck just for fun
Show HN: Easily create How-to videos with AI
Show HN: Easily create How-to videos with AI