[madjam002]

Roblox was a fairly big part of my childhood, it made programming exciting and got me learning. I remember reaching the front page with my game at no.1 with the most players online and reaching 350k+ plays. After that hanging out in script builders was a lot of fun also (is that still a thing?)

It was such a great experience, had a lot of fun, thank-you to the original devs for the good times :)

[chc4]

I also grew up playing Roblox, and it's how I learned programming. I probably logged thousands of hours in script builders. My life definitely turned out very different thanks to Roblox.

For those not in the know, script builders were places that were just an empty map, but that allowed anyone in the server to load in their own scripts - so people would create and run custom weapons, power armor, admin commands, etc. and play around with each other. There was a very dedicated community of programmers that played them for years, and I'm still friends with some people I met through them like 7 years ago.

I think as a genre they're pretty dead, though - Roblox tightened security around loading arbitrary scripts that broke all the script builders several times, and now had replication filtering so that client-side scripts can't set properties. You probably could still make cool swords, but they'd need to use proper RemoteFunctions for client-server RPC, meaning all the old scripts are broken.

[madjam002]

Hi fellow script-builder!

Yep definitely had a lot of fun in those places. I remember loads of people logging on injecting admin command scripts (wasn’t it something like Person210’s admin commands that everyone used?)

One of my more vivid memories was making a script that would inject a train station that only I had access to, with a train that would take me to a distant planet with god-mode weapons and aircraft. Had a lot of fun with that! This must have been back in 2008/09

[lawrenceyan]

What do you do now?

[madjam002]

I never went into game dev. I started off as a junior in web development, worked my way up to contracting for some UK financial services companies working on some large projects. More recently I’ve spent the better part of a year on my own startup in proptech.

Game dev was something that appealed to me when I was younger (mainly because of Roblox) but I never really considered a career in it.

[pyuser583]

What is proptech?

[madjam002]

It’s a term being thrown around at least in the U.K. - property technology, solving problems in real estate with technology.

My startup is over at https://propertyengine.co.uk if you want to take a look :)

[ux-app]

That's a cool looking startup. I can see from the sample report that most of the data is aggregated from publicly available info.

I'm assuming you are scraping the property pictures from a realestate sale site (in Australia the market is dominated by realestate.com.au). How are you getting around copyright issues?

Also, who is your target customer? I'm curious who requires $50 of property reports every month. Is it real estate agents using this a quick way to generate brochures/flyers?

[justicezyx]

Good luck!

The flowing banner of properties photos and short info makes me feel uneasy.

[madjam002]

Thanks for the feedback :) Actually replacing the homepage with something a bit cleaner in a few days for that reason!