Mars Sandbox started as a fun experiment: what if I could build a little colony on Mars and then mess with it? Build Olympic City, change the time of day, throw dust storms, solar flares, meteorites and extreme cold at it, then try to recover. This is just V1. There’s a lot I want to improve, expand and polish from here. The goal is to slowly turn this little experiment into a beautiful, detailed Mars simulation.
This summer, we made a bold decision to launch on Product Hunt. The problem? We had zero idea how to actually do it.
Well, almost zero. Our CTO @mokosiy was a massive Product Hunt fan, and his enthusiasm was our only compass. He armed us with the right stack: Cursor for code, PostHog for analytics, latest .NET and Avalonia to build the gorgeous app.
The Reality Check By August, the "Launching Soon" label we were banking on had vanished. We were flying blind. That's when the real work began. I didn't just read the guidelines; I followed them to the letter. We had to change the date of the Product Hunt launch five times. We realized that we weren't ready.
Slowly but surely, the Christmas holidays are approaching, which usually means more time at home with family and more movie binge-watching.
Yesterday I watched TV for the first time in a while, and they were playing Bezos: The Beginning (2023). A decent movie overall, even though it could ve been longer or had a sequel.
