It almost seems like every day I have a conversation with someone about my online activities and what I should be building next. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy these conversations, but it's so hard to focus when there are so many moving targets.
It's no secret that I've been really focused on Snapie.io for weeks and that I've been steadily elevating its capabilities. What started as a small short-form frontend has slowly become a full-blown web app that handles videos, audio, OpenPods (think Twitter Spaces), streaming, real time chats, and wallet functions.
Insanity? Maybe.
Needed? I think so. Or should I say, I hope so.
Today, however, a friend suggested a great idea. A great addition, and one that I think is very doable. Still, I'm curious whether more people would actually find it fun.
There's this game people play in real life. Players place a picture on their foreheads, unseen of course. Everyone participating tries to guess what they have, but nobody can give complex answers. Simple yes or no responses are all that's allowed.
The logic behind building something like this would be fairly straightforward, I suspect. After all, it would mostly be humans deciding who wins and who loses.
But I wonder if I'm just falling in love with ideas again, and whether the market will care at all if I make such a thing.
I suppose I could build it as part of a broader plugin system that allows people in video calls to give themselves hats, mustaches, and other effects. But that hardly seems necessary. Especially since Google Meet already does this, and does it quite well.
At any rate, it's almost 2 a.m., and here I am. Still pushing code. Still running tests.
Like I can escape bankruptcy with git commits.
Idiotic? Maybe.
But it's also the only thing I can do on a Saturday night.
Oh, did you RSVP for tomorrow's OpenPod?
Oh wait... did I forget to tell you that you can do that now?
Did you not visit Snapie.io already?
For shame.
For shame.
-MenO
