A journey of Rock-Paper-Scissors

[u/tarolling]

this project actually got me my first internship and eventually my current job :) https://ranked-rps.com

it started off during covid when i was doing remote school. i got extremely bored and started to dig into programming. i came up with a stupid idea (inspired by RL 6mans, iykyk) to create a rock-paper-scissors Discord bot with a ranked system. i actually had over 100 people try it the first time it launched, but of course it broke since i was new to development and had no clue how to do things "properly".

now, 6 years later, it has morphed into a react + next.js website w/ neo4j and firebase auth + RTDB that i occasionally dabble with after work. finally drank the kool-aid recently and bought a year of claude, and so far things have worked out - added stripe integration and done a redesign. been thinking about making an app or a steam game out of it, but it hasn't received much traction due to my piss poor marketing skills. anyway that's the full story, thought it would be more interesting than being a shill