The Inspiration
Falcon and the Gameranx team
The video that started it: "Why The HELL is NOBODY Buying Games?"
Data Providers
IGDB
Game catalogue, metadata and cover art. Games metadata is powered by IGDB.com.
Twitch Interactive
Operates IGDB and granted the commercial data licence.
Valve / Steam
Steam OpenID sign-in, library sync, playtime verification and PC pricing.
IsThereAnyDeal
Historical price data used to anchor what a game originally asked for.
Infrastructure
Vercel
Frontend hosting and deployment.
Railway
Backend hosting, PostgreSQL, and the deploy pipeline.
GitHub
Source control, code review, and the ledger this project runs on.
Namecheap
Domain registration.
Google Workspace
Email.
Resend
Transactional email delivery.
Cloudflare
Network layer in front of parts of the stack.
The Stack
PostgreSQL
The database. Every rating, every atom, every immutable row.
Node.js
The runtime.
TypeScript
The language, and the type system that catches what review does not.
Fastify
The backend web framework.
Next.js
The frontend framework.
React
The user interface library.
node-postgres (pg)
PostgreSQL client for Node.
node-steam-openid
Steam OpenID authentication.
Nodemailer
SMTP transport, and the fallback that keeps the sign-in door open.
Vitest
The test runner.
tsx
TypeScript execution for scripts and tooling.
ESLint
Linting, and the CI check that was red for a day before anyone could read it.
typescript-eslint
TypeScript linting rules.
Playwright
Browser automation for QA.
Chromium
The browser QA drives.
Open Source
LDNOOBW
The word list, CC-BY-4.0. Curated, not copied.
The npm ecosystem
Thousands of maintainers whose work this is built on and who will never know.
The AI Team
Anthropic
Built Claude, and made a team of one person possible.
Claude Agents
The AI Digital Team
CTO / Strategy
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Held the decision bank, ruled on collisions, and kept the founder focused
Developer
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Wrote the code, refused specs that looked wrong, and caught the governor’s errors.
UX/UI
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Collaborated creatively, and somehow built a shark.
QA
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Did the work no one else wanted to and better than any of us could.
Optimisation
Optimus Prime
Optimus Secundus
“Till all are one.”
CyberSecurity
SecUnit 1
For checking the perimeter.
Marketing
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Positioning and voice, and the honest answer written before the question came.
Legal
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Read the contracts and found the questions nobody had asked.
Partners and People
Christian, IGDB
Granted the commercial addendum to a one-person company with no revenue.
Quintin, Valve
Reviewed and approved the Steam sign-in treatment.
The beta testers
Friends who broke it on purpose so strangers would not have to.
The Players
Every Contributor
Who said what a game was actually worth, and expected nothing for it.
Special Thanks
Flixx
For the Tear and Wink
Phyll and Arieta
For keeping me excited about this crazy idea.
Dave
For always being there. Love you brother.
Charlie
For letting me bore her constantly with talk about video games.
FAIR PLAY
GAMES
Say what it's worth.
