CEO Simulator: Startup Edition

[ipnon]

It’s hard to believe you used to be able to get a normal job at a local company in your hometown and afford a house, car and children working 40 hours a week.

[sepositus]

Have you spent much time in non-urban areas? I live in a <10k town and it's very much possible to achieve that here. I mean, not working at McDonald's, but our industry zone has plenty of good-paying opportunities in the mechanical, electrical, engineering, and even aerospace fields (drones, mostly). I have plenty of blue-collar friends working in these areas, and they all have homes with families.

We also have a huge green energy sector due to the natural geography. Our local community college even has a full program you can go through and come out making $35-40/hr.

[jjice]

It’s fully dependent on your hometown’s COL. my home town is a moderately sized, but mostly forgettable city in the eastern time zone. This is absolutely possible there if you’re in probably 80% of the suburbs, but you may struggle to be in the very nice few towns.

[DANmode]

> Q: Is working overtime mandatory if I don't have enough hours?

> A: No, overtime is optional and comes with risks to CEO Mental Health.

[hnthrow90348765]

Like the game, it's still luck. You can luck out and get a 20 hr/week job writing simple code from home and coast.

[bigfishrunning]

I'm doing this right now, north of Pittsburgh. It's still possible

[tptacek]

This is what most homeowners do.

[aprilthird2021]

I moved from Memphis, TN to Silicon Valley and it took me 10 years of working in software to be in the market for a home. Meanwhile my friends who worked odd jobs in sandwich shops or theatres or filming / taking photographs for magazines all had homes a few years after we graduated.

It's a failure of the government that they allowed the old, senile landed gentry in parts of our country, especially California, to effectively be able to veto all new building while paying no property tax to fund our public services.

[01HNNWZ0MV43FF]

They say taxes were higher at the top end, might be worth a shot

[michpoch]

But isn’t it still the same? You just need to be reasonable what a „normal job” is.

[thih9]

It’s hard to read cards on mobile.

If I tap a card to read the full text, the card then covers other cards. If I tap on another card, it now covers the rest. And if I tap the original card to remember a detail from the description, this now plays the card.

Edit: Looks like clicking anywhere else “deselects” the active cards - this way it is possible to read the description of all cards at any time without playing any.

[atorok]

I modified the behaviour so that tap and hold will straighten the card and magnify it. When you release it just goes back to the original position. Short tap plays the card.

[MIC132]

You can tap off of cards to shrink them back.

[dijksterhuis]

Tech Debt score of +5 at the end. Is it obvious I'm a software engineer?

bug notes

- couple of times a card seemed to get magically selected for me, i've got "tapping = clicking" disabled on my trackpad, so not sure how those happened, hopefully was me fat fingering. usually i didn't even have time to see the new card though, which makes me think it might be some bug with noticing inputs? could be my fat fingers tho.

- When I have spare meeting time left over, I was able to select an objective that had moved as a result of a card at the start of the day, could infinitely roll the dice with nothing happening. I could at least select a different objective to make things move forward tho.

[pkkm]

> I was able to select an objective that had moved as a result of a card at the start of the day, could infinitely roll the dice with nothing happening.

Same bug here, in Firefox 128.

Also, while we're making suggestions, would it be possible to replace the tutorial balloon boxes with something that's less in the way? I like built-in hints and don't want to turn them off, but sometimes they can be a bit annoying when they cover up parts of the game UI. I would prefer some kind of animated glow behind the parts of the game I'm supposed to click on (cards, bars, or the die) plus a statically positioned explanation box to the side or on the bottom. That would make the hints unobtrusive enough that there would be no need to provide an option to turn them off.

[atorok]

Thanks, lol, you deserve a well-architected wink ;)

Thanks for these bug reports, nice and detailed so I'll be able to find a fix for them

[saaaaaam]

Love this. However, when I got a high score I appeared twice on the leader board for some reason. Another time I appeared just as “name” and my high score which would have put me at #1 at that point (12090!) didn’t get entered at all.

I also got duplicate cards a few times - which might be intentional, but was a little annoying.

Very addictive in a silly fun way. Well done :)

[atorok]

Lova your last comment :D

I fixed the first issue: I got also an alert at the same time that I ran out of quota on the db so had to increase it. You should see your point now. The duplicate cards issue is strange.. I'll have to debug that a bit more

[ChosenEnd]

SAM, I can see your score, I just dethroned you with 12280.

[chelical]

I also got a score that would have put me on the leaderboard, but the leaderboard did not update sadly.

[ilikehurdles]

I played a card that said tech debt drops by 4 thinking it’s a good thing, but it knocked me out of the game

[intelVISA]

You thought too much, that makes investors uneasy.

[forty]

Why are the cards overlapping? There is enough space on my mobile screen to display them all if they were not tilt

[KronisLV]

If you set the amount of working hours per day to 14, the game suddenly becomes easy. :')

[alberth]

I didn't understand how people were scoring so high until I saw in the Settings that you can increase the Working Hours to 24, and your Hand size to 10.

The game immediately became less fun. I was able to max everything out in green in just a few days.

[gwerbret]

"Note, modifying these settings means your score will not be added to the leaderboard!"

[binbag]

Brilliant. This is my life.

[atorok]

Ah this is a quote I was looking for :D

[thomasjudge]

"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."

[esafak]

Some CEOs are clearly winning. Global thermonuclear war has not broken out yet either :)

[mlna]

Great game. I love it so much.

[notnmeyer]

fun game, but annoying to read the cards on mobile. would be nice to have an option to have them laid out without being fanned and overlapping

[Bjorkbat]

Related, if you like startup simulators, then you'll love The Founder (http://thefounder.biz/).

Incidentally Francis Tseng also worked on Half-Earth Socialism, which is also quite fun, and both games happen to be open-source (https://github.com/frnsys/)

[atorok]

Lol, thanks I'm trying them out!

[code_martial]

I can’t watch the tutorial because YouTube insists on a sign-in. -_-

[thih9]

Same here. Opening the tutorial video directly [1] in a different browser and with clear cookies worked for me.

I rarely see this login wall, usually it happens in combination with hn posts.

[1]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dSpE4wgQGnY