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> Tell people about things you do that they played a part it- it might just make their day.

Thank you for putting this out there!

I once reverse engineered the protocol for a popular mobile game so I could write my own client for it and posted my library online for others to do the same without any expectation it'd ever get seen. Months later, I received an email from someone reverse engineering the protocol as well for different purposes. They got stuck on a particularly difficult issue I also encountered (and documented), and googling it led them to my library, saving them hours of future work.

It definitely made my day and I'm still very proud of that project because of that.

Edit: There's a second part too! I just remembered that I've posted this story on HN before, and the last time I did a dev for the game emailed me saying he looked over the code and was impressed that I was able to figure out so much despite their deliberate efforts to keep the protocol locked down. Another great day!

[duckmysick]

Impressive story!

Did the devs try to further obfuscate the protocol after they discovered your library?

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By that point, I no longer played and the game had gone through a rewrite that used a new API, so my library no longer worked and I never updated it for v2.