Hello,<p>I created itch.io about two years ago. I originally launched it on HN too! <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5445029" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5445029</a><p>Would be glad to answer any questions.<p>Naturally the tech stack of itch.io is very cool:<p>It's powered by MoonScript <a href="http://moonscript.org/" rel="nofollow">http://moonscript.org/</a> , the transpiled language I wrote. Using Lapis <a href="http://leafo.net/lapis/" rel="nofollow">http://leafo.net/lapis/</a> , the web framework I built. It's running on top of a custom Ngingx build called OpenResty <a href="http://openresty.org/" rel="nofollow">http://openresty.org/</a> (I didn't make that)<p>Because Lua is not something you typically see running websites there a lot libraries that I had to write to facilitate the basics: talking to APIs, uploading files, storage management, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, Mailgun, etc, etc. Check out my GitHub, I opensource most of it: <a href="http://github.com/leafo" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/leafo</a>