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dilemma.wtf

5 points by arondeparon 2 years ago · 3 comments · 1 min read

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Last week my 9 year old son walked up to me and asked "Would your rather shit your pants in public or drink spoiled milk?", and I was intrigued. Turns out he did not make this up himself, but got the dilemma from a card game.

A couple of nights ago I decided to digitize some of these cards and create a simple open source app for it.

Just a little fun project; no monetization or bigger goal, really.

Link: https://dilemma.wtf

Tech stack:

- Back-end: Laravel

- Front-end: Plain HTML and Tailwind with a sprinkle of Alpine.js

- Deployment: Laravel Forge, linked to a Hetzner VPS. Deployment triggers whenever I merge to main.

The app itself is super simple. Just a bunch of markdown files and a controller that picks two random files ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

JSDevOps 2 years ago

Cool but alot are glaringly obvious which ones you would pick

  • muzani 2 years ago

    It might benefit from an Elo rank, where the dilemma that doesn't get picked scores higher and dilemmas are matched against similar ranked ones.

junail 2 years ago

good for content creation ideas

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