Hi! This is a little game I've been working on over the past few weekends.

It's heavily inspired by lastpaywins.com by @alex_lewin.

It works similarly, except that you invite a friend to join your game—so you're not playing against strangers. Also, the timer is 24 hours instead of 300 seconds.

I think this game could be fun because winning sounds simple: you just need to remember to zap back within 24 hours. But the same goes for your friend. So, over time, the pool grows, and eventually—maybe after months??—someone will forget, and the winner gets the full pool!

I'm glad I can finally release the first version to get some feedback and see whether it's worth continuing to work on alongside SN in my spare time. It can get quite depressing to work on the same codebase day in, day out for two years.

I don't have high expectations for this game; I mostly just wanted to prove to myself that I can execute on an idea from start to finish completely on my own that others might also find cool. Oh, and I wanted to try out a different tech stack instead of only working with Stacker News' tech stack. This game is built with Echo+HTMX+Templ.

Here are some screenshots:

Let me know if you want to play, then I will create a game with the default of 100 sats per zap and reply with the invite link. You can of course also create your own game and drop the links in here so others can join! I am just offering to play with anyone using the default zap setting (or lower if requested).