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by CobrastanJorji 1456 days ago
Is Hathora a product? The blog post mentions a free tier, which is great, but I can't find any references to any pricing or tier information at all, or even a link to buy something. There's documentation showing how to run a dev server locally, but, like...what happens then?

Does Hathora have any customers? It says "scale to millions." Has anyone ever used Hathora to scale to millions of something?
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jkchu 1456 days ago
Not dsiddharth, but for what it's worth I am using Hathora for my upcoming game (it's almost complete!). Their product still very new, but they have been extremely helpful with every step of the process building with Hathora.

They have two products - an open-source dev framework (free) and a cloud-hosting product (paid).

My games will likely never reach millions players, but my first two games led to over 1,000 sign-ups and I've made over $1k in revenue (which I'm super proud of). I can report back with how my newest game does after it launches.

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iAmAPencilYo 1456 days ago
That's really cool - possible to llshow the two games that you've built already with Hathora?
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jkchu 1456 days ago
My first two games were built with my own hacky web sockets implementation. From a software perspective it's pretty messy, but it gets the job done haha.

I actually had built an alpha version of my 3rd game with my own networking code, but because it is more of a real-time game, there were tons of bugs. Switching to use Hathora for the back-end logic has made the game much more stable so I can finally work to release the game.

You can check out my first two games here: https://gomobo.app/. They play kind of similar to Jackbox games, but with more strategy board game elements. Would love to hear what you think!

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