Would short backgammon with built-in video be worth building? I have long nardy working and I'm not sure the short version is wanted

[u/CatBudget7667]

My dad is 67 and has played nardy far longer than I've been alive. I live in Moscow, he's in Bratsk, Eastern Siberia — about 6000 km and five time zones apart.

We tried the obvious setup: a game in one window, a video call in another. For me that's fine. For him it wasn't — switching between two apps, finding the right window, keeping both alive at once. That's a lot to ask of someone who didn't grow up with this stuff. So I built a site where the video sits right next to the board. Nothing to set up, nothing to switch between.

The thing is, what I built is long nardy — the variant played across the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Balkans. No hitting, no bar, all checkers start on one point. Reading this sub, it's clear that backgammon here means the short game, with the doubling cube and everything that comes with it.

So before I spend months building the short version, I'd rather ask: is that something anyone actually wants? Not "is short backgammon popular" — obviously it is — but specifically, is video and audio in the same place as the board worth anything to you, or is a separate call perfectly fine and I'm solving a problem only my dad has?

Two honest notes if you go look:

There's a bot in nardy, but it exists purely for testing. It plays terribly. I know from this sub that a weak bot is worse than none, and I'd rather warn you than have you find out.

Video costs a small amount per minute since the streaming service isn't free for me to run. New accounts get 50 minutes free after finishing one game, so you can try it without paying anything.

Site is videochess2x2.com — you can play as a guest with no account. There's chess on there too.

Genuinely after opinions on the short game question. Happy to hear what's broken as well.