[johnsillings]

Hey all, John here. I just wanted to say a big thanks for all the support on this project.

Yesterday was a roller coaster of, "oh, I guess nobody cares," to "well, I'm proud of it anyway," to "wait, people are submitting," to "this is amazing!" to "OH GOD THIS ISN'T GOOD," to "I think everything is fine," to "alright, I'm going to bed."

And when I woke up this morning, it really tickled me to see that folks were still having so much fun with the Simulator.

To say this exceeded my expectations would be an understatement. All the support, hilarious submissions, and lovely comments are really inspiring me to keep shipping. This is probably obvious, but most things I ship, especially weekend projects like this, never get any traction and remain obscure/unused forever.

(Also to some degree it validated my weekend art-project tinkering to my wife – so thanks for that, too.)

I appreciate the emails, the feature ideas, the encouragement, everything. Big hug to the HN community – thank you.

[botanrice]

super neat & fun idea! as a fellow weekend art-project tinkerer (but probably a bit more amateur), what is your flow for making apps these days? I've been building a few things myself with help from GitHub copilot but I don't have a lot of other perspectives on what people are using to whip up their neat ideas. Cursor? replit?

[johnsillings]

really appreciate it! as far as coding tools go, Cursor is my workhorse.