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Show HN: Pyramid.com

4 pointsby mcygerabout 1 year ago
Hey, HN.<p>Michael Cyger here.<p>While my wife and 16-year-old set off on a college visit trip to the Midwest last week, my 13-year-old son and I stayed home with the family dog.<p>Knowing my son enjoys programming and wanting to do something that he would consider a fun, bonding activity, I suggested a &quot;Cyger Hackathon Week&quot; where we both develop a game and launch them publicly.<p>Naturally, a good chunk of our development time was spent in front of reruns of The Office, with a sprinkle of trips to our local pickleball courts, and numerous meals dedicated to chatting about our daily coding triumphs and challenges.<p>My game is Pyramid Solitaire.<p>(His is a 2-dimensional game on Godot called Lightning Roller, but it&#x27;s not live yet.)<p>Full disclosure: I&#x27;m not a programmer. I have programmed when I was 12 using Basic, in college using Fortran 77, etc., but I don&#x27;t do it for a living.<p>If you haven&#x27;t played Pyramid Solitaire before, it&#x27;s fun because you add up pairs of cards to 13 and try to clear all the unblocked cards of the pyramid.<p>It&#x27;s low key, easy, and relaxing.<p>You can finish a game in about 3 minutes (1 minute if you get really lucky on the cards), so it&#x27;s a great break from work or between tasks.<p>I wrote everything in plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript in one week.<p>It was a ton of fun, like putting together a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle -- for someone like me that isn&#x27;t a great programmer. It felt great building something that worked from start to finish.<p>If you like it, I will definitely add more features and functionality. There&#x27;s a &quot;suggest an improvement&quot; link to send me an email, and I&#x27;d love to hear your feedback via email or here.<p>Oh, and if you&#x27;re wondering about the killer domain name, Pyramid.com, yeah, it&#x27;s one of a handful of names I&#x27;ve collected over the years. I love domains just like every other indie developer. It&#x27;s the 29th oldest .com domain name in existence, first registered October 17, 1986.<p>Hope you enjoy the game! ♠♥♣♦

2 comments

ja27about 1 year ago
Wow, was pyramid.com originally theirs?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pyramid_Technology" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Pyramid_Technology</a>
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genier200about 1 year ago
The domain itself is already very valuable, more so than the games
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