Rohith Varanasi

It's this really fun mobile game where there's endless outcomes. Every action you do results in a unique visual and experience that no one has seen before.

Right now, we're iOS only. So our mobile app is fully native. It's all Swift. For the MVP, we really sprinted and got like V0.1 out in maybe four weeks, three weeks. And our backend is all Elixir. I started using Elixir at my first startup and I just fell in love. It's been such a pleasure to work with and it only keeps getting better and more magical.

Right now, we're iOS only. So our mobile app is fully native. It's all Swift. For the MVP, we really sprinted and got like V0.1 out in maybe four weeks, three weeks. And our backend is all Elixir. I started using Elixir at my first startup and I just fell in love. It's been such a pleasure to work with and it only keeps getting better and more magical.

Right now, we're iOS only. So our mobile app is fully native. It's all Swift. For the MVP, we really sprinted and got like V0.1 out in maybe four weeks, three weeks. And our backend is all Elixir. I started using Elixir at my first startup and I just fell in love. It's been such a pleasure to work with and it only keeps getting better and more magical.

Especially as we start to do more real-time things, it's just so well built for that. Yeah, so like I mentioned earlier, servers are hosted on Render and our backend is fully Elixir with Phoenix as the web server.

Especially as we start to do more real-time things, it's just so well built for that. Yeah, so like I mentioned earlier, servers are hosted on Render and our backend is fully Elixir with Phoenix as the web server.

Especially as we start to do more real-time things, it's just so well built for that. Yeah, so like I mentioned earlier, servers are hosted on Render and our backend is fully Elixir with Phoenix as the web server.

I'm sure you understand this, but everything is a trade-off at this point and at this early stage when we're so resource constrained. It's really easy for technical founders to get into this mindset of, oh, let me just keep building all the features because I'm technical and I can build. We've definitely fallen into that trap in the past. With this go-around, we've been very thoughtful.

I'm sure you understand this, but everything is a trade-off at this point and at this early stage when we're so resource constrained. It's really easy for technical founders to get into this mindset of, oh, let me just keep building all the features because I'm technical and I can build. We've definitely fallen into that trap in the past. With this go-around, we've been very thoughtful.

I'm sure you understand this, but everything is a trade-off at this point and at this early stage when we're so resource constrained. It's really easy for technical founders to get into this mindset of, oh, let me just keep building all the features because I'm technical and I can build. We've definitely fallen into that trap in the past. With this go-around, we've been very thoughtful.

And so for the MVP, I think we've been trying to keep a singular focus on what the player does when they get into the product, when they get into the game. The main objective is, can we make it fun?

And so for the MVP, I think we've been trying to keep a singular focus on what the player does when they get into the product, when they get into the game. The main objective is, can we make it fun?

And so for the MVP, I think we've been trying to keep a singular focus on what the player does when they get into the product, when they get into the game. The main objective is, can we make it fun?

And I think once we aligned ourselves on what is the main objective that we're trying to bring to the player when they first land in the app is let's get them to have fun as quickly as possible and for as long as possible. The first iteration didn't have any generative visuals. It was mainly generative text.

And I think once we aligned ourselves on what is the main objective that we're trying to bring to the player when they first land in the app is let's get them to have fun as quickly as possible and for as long as possible. The first iteration didn't have any generative visuals. It was mainly generative text.

And I think once we aligned ourselves on what is the main objective that we're trying to bring to the player when they first land in the app is let's get them to have fun as quickly as possible and for as long as possible. The first iteration didn't have any generative visuals. It was mainly generative text.

And we were like, OK, maybe this is good enough because like just seeing the text come out might be magical enough. And we shipped it and we shipped like a very rough alpha to just like close friends. And it was terrible. It was awful. No one played it. We didn't play it. And so we kept iterating.

And we were like, OK, maybe this is good enough because like just seeing the text come out might be magical enough. And we shipped it and we shipped like a very rough alpha to just like close friends. And it was terrible. It was awful. No one played it. We didn't play it. And so we kept iterating.

And we were like, OK, maybe this is good enough because like just seeing the text come out might be magical enough. And we shipped it and we shipped like a very rough alpha to just like close friends. And it was terrible. It was awful. No one played it. We didn't play it. And so we kept iterating.

And then I think we got really lucky with some of the releases that have been coming out around that time when we realized that the first iteration without generative visuals was pretty lackluster and boring and not retentive. was right around when the latest image gen model that came out. And it's Flux by Black Forest Labs. At least August 1st. And we got super lucky.