TheRoccoB

They don't need enterprise quotas for new firebase projects. Set them low, let us turn them up when quotas are hit.

For instance I was seeing 35GB/s (GigaBYTES, not Gigabits) per second of cloud egress. I believe 25GB/s is the default for each region where you have a bucket.

Who knows what other insane quota landmines there are out there.

Main issue is the realtime database (old school legacy stuff). Month of work to migrate to something else and replace, but maybe I'll do it.

Company was "profitable" if you count the 3000 hours of engineering I did as free, haha. Paid firebase bill with a little bit extra. Beer money, not money money.

This is basically accurate. Google is working with me on the bill. I don't really want to give details on that, as the conversation is ongoing.

Hint: it's not easy and far from resolved.

I'm the guy that got hit. Feel free to ask me questions. Planning to do a series here or on reddit about what actually happened when the dust settles a little bit more:

Latest convo is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1kdxqwj/burned_...

Itch is awesome, been up for years!

I run a semi-competitor called https://simmer.io. My focus is:

-WebGL Games (only, no downloads) -Youtube style presentation (and embedding) -Being the easiest place to upload a game, no rigamarole. Drag your webgl build onto the page and call it a day.

We have about 2500 games and developers signed up. It's currently mostly a place to show off your work, but working on more monetization options right now.

Feel free to reach out if you have any feedback or ideas for the site. rocco@simmer.io

I made a celebration post! https://medium.com/@theroccob/in-honor-of-the-end-of-flash-8...

Electron?

Hi Leaf, this is Rocco, the author of the article. I've gone ahead and updated it with the correct URL along with a note that you've made the HTML5 games easier to find.

I'm curious why you haven't just delisted any games that won't work in the current browser? Kongregate also has this problem right now too.

Yes. It works well, although I paid for a fancier demo and exported it, and it crashed occasionally.

They've done a pretty good job with compressing the assets too. Good weissman score.

This is so tragic. I used to work with Roger and he's about as gifted of an engineer as I've ever met. He was so nice and helpful too, even though he was miles beyond me in terms of skill.

He was so into his indy game, Shard, and even whipped out his laptop to show me and started explaining intricacies of the renderer when I met him at an industry event years later.

I didn't know his wife, but from the things I've read she was also a pioneer in her industry. Rest in Peace.