5 ms·
Show HN: My startup, a game server SaaS
- Chickenosaurus 9y agoThere seems to be quite some money to be made in game hosting as evidenced by https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/arkservers-io https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/arkservers-io . For how long have you been operating? Are you willing to share your revenue numbers?
- orliesaurus 9y agoWhat game?
- joshmn 9y ago7 Days To Die, as per the jumbotron. Ridiculously fun and entertaining game.
- orliesaurus 9y agoOh, I thought that was just a "catch line". Never heard of that game, will check it out !
- joshmn 9y agohttps://www.aardvarkservers.com/privacy_policy https://www.aardvarkservers.com/privacy_policy > SECTION 4 - SHOPIFY > Our store is hosted on Shopify Inc. I was curious how Shopify would let you roll Devise so I took a peak and it looks like it's hosted by NameCheap. ;) That aside, what's your infra like? How are you allowing a user to manage the 7dtd servers themselves? I haven't played since v15, but last time I checked there wasn't much of an API to use to manage it all.
- SoftwarePatent 9y agoHi! Founder here. Thanks for finding a bug in my privacy policy, I'll fix that. :/ I wrote a rails web app running on heroku. For the game server binaries, I spun up a server in a data center and control it using bash scripts that run in background jobs on heroku. I wrote jobs to do various tasks, like update config file, restart server, create initial server. Let me know if you want more info!
- ateesdalejr 9y agoLooks interesting. Loving the fact that the page loads in like 2 seconds... Every single other game SaaS I've used has like super low page load times because they're all using whatever newfangled css library is out there. :P
- breakingcups 9y agoSuper low or super high/slow?
- SoftwarePatent 9y agoFounder here. I'm obsessed with performance! Users love snappy web apps.
- Topgamer7 9y agoHow long was your development time?
- SoftwarePatent 9y agoAbout two months, on nights and weekends.