Play Retro Games Online: No Downloads, Use Phone as Controller

Play Retro Games Online: No Downloads, Use Phone as ControllerPlay Retro Games Online: No Downloads, Use Phone as Controller

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Hisham Ahmer

pro

• Mar 10

I built a platform where retro games (Contra, Mario, Adventure Island, till PS2 era titles) run entirely on Google Cloud. No downloads, no installs, no dedicated hardware.

You open a website. Scan a QR code. Your phone is now the controller. Anything up to PS2 generation is just a few MBs of emulation running on CPU Modern gen games are a different architecture problem — GPU compute, latency optimization, streaming pipelines. Built the whole thing with Claude Code

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Ivo Ivanov

max

• Mar 30

I built my first native iOS app this weekend. The client? My wife. The budget? $0 😅 She's a home pastry chef and needed a kitchen timer. Simple brief. Zero negotiation room. Spent most of the weekend designing it by hand in Figma - Dieter Rams vibes, minimalist with a touch of skeuomorphic texture that just feels right on a physical device. Then handed it off to Claude Code to implement in Xcode. Accuracy? Kind of wild. 99% pixel-perfect from my Figma file. A lot of prompting, but it delivered. App's live on TestFlight. Client tested it. Client approved it. Client is still not paying. Next up: multi-step timers - which was actually the feature she asked for in the first place.