Hi, all!
Just reaching out to see if there are any Kids on Bikes players active in this community! I’ve been working on a tool to support play groups at my local games shop, and I thought – why not open it up to more people?
It’s 100% free, there are zero features stuck behind a paywall, ads, or other monetization and I intend to keep it that way. Full disclosure: there is a link to donate to the project, but it’s out of the way and will never be shoved in anyone’s face.
I want to make the tool better for anyone and everyone who uses it, so if it interests you at all please check it out! It’s called Handlebar Heroes. Feel free to make suggestions, ask questions, give strongly worded criticisms, whatever you like. I’m here for it all. 🙂
Thanks so much for your time! I hope someone gets some use out of it.
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Hey cujo, you might have more success posting at [email protected]. That’s a much more active community than this one.
Thank you! I’ll post there, as well.
I’ve been interested in Kids on Bikes for a while just haven’t gotten around to actually getting a game together.
I will say though that needing to create an account and log in to use it is a pretty big turn-off for me, especially without any sort of preview of what the actual site looks like so I can gauge if it’s gonna be worth it for me.
Being able to use it without logging in would be really nice. Or at least include some screenshots or something. As it is you’re kind of just saying “trust me, there’s a useful tool on this website, give me your email address and password”
Not that I have any particular reason to distrust you, but I also don’t have any reason to trust you either. Sure you’re open source so anyone can audit your code, but I don’t have the technical know-how to do that, and I don’t really know how many people who actually know what they’re doing have taken the time to audit it themselves.
Just a heads-up about netlify, I am building a website and planning to host there as well, but be sure to do rate limiting or put it behind a cloudflare proxy to avoid ridiculous $100k bill from netlify.
Update: I checked netlify’s docs on rate limiting and it is a paid feature :(. That means you’re a DDoS attack away from a huge bill from netlify, even if you’re on a free plan. I’m going to host my site on GitHub pages or cloudflare pages instead, netlify is simple to use but this is simply too dangerous.
Great call out! Thanks a bunch.
EDIT: Just a heads up, since that fiasco in Feb 2024 (where the user got a surprise $104k bill) Netlify has updated to offer a Free Plan in addition to the Starter Plan. The difference being, the Free Site plan shuts off traffic after 100GB, and the Starter Site plan will begin billing at a rate of $55/100gb after the first 100Gb. So the site should be safe from unexpected bills, but could be shut down by a malicious attack…
I hope you’re right, I also tried to read the pricing page on netlify carefully about this. The Q&A says the websites will be shut off if the bandwidth limit is reached, but the pricing table still says $55/100 after 100G is reached. Talk about not reassuring. From the look of it, it’s probably fine to use the free tier since it technically didn’t ask for credit card info and real name to sign up iirc, I don’t think they have enough info to send a bill to any users home address, so nothing is stopping from surprise charge free tier user from just not paying the bill at all.
