Ask HN: What happened to stockfighter.io?

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Hey HN, Anyone knows what happened to stockfighter.io ? It looks like it's been down for at least a few weeks now :(. I was planning on playing the Jailbreak levels.

Is there anyone with some inside knowledge of StarFighter about what's going on ? Is the website down forever ?

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I assume you mean starfighter, not stockfighter. It's closed or in the process of closing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12415786

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12464647

Patrick took a job at Stripe and shut the site down. My personal opinion is that the the site was over-complicated and he never actually figured out a good model for making money before the developer in him created an uber-complicated platform.

It also had lots of scaling issues. I tried it a few time and there were frequent errors/downtime. Something that made me not want to use it again. For a potential employer? It's even worse.

It's also a little disappointing that he took a job at a corporation, when he was looked up to in this community as someone that 'made it' with their own company.

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