cubedesk VS Zusam

Over Covid, I got really into solving the Rubik’s cube. I couldn’t find any minimalistic apps to help me time myself and learn algorithms. So, I ended up writing an app for myself, which I later showed off on Reddit.

People really seemed to like the design, so I cleaned it up a bit and made it available to everyone. The site (https://cubedesk.io) has been free to use for 3 years and has 50k users.

Most recently, I've been working on an email marketing platform to help me email those 50k users. I noticed that emailing all those people was expensive and tedious, so created and launched https://cc.dev

cubedesk.io

Idk if this counts but I built myself a Rubik's cube timer and eventually made it public:

https://cubedesk.io

It was a weekend project which I used for several weeks before sharing it on Reddit. The feedback was so good I decided to make it public.

this one? https://github.com/kash/cubedesk/pull/129 by https://github.com/afedotov ?

https://cubedesk.io - the chess.com of Rubik’s cubes

I started this as a side project about two years ago and now it has about 1k daily active users. Users time themselves solving the Rubik’s cube, practice on the trainer, and 1v1 others.

Technically, it’s generating some money from the Pro feature, but not enough to run the servers. So I pay out of pocket every month. It has a lot of fans and supporters so I’d never shut it down, but it’d be nice to at least break even.

or you can export cstimer's solve to a file and import to cubedesk.io instead.

But I didn't like the fact that it was tied to facebook. I decided to put into practice what I've learned that year at my informatics school and created forum written in php. It was not much but we liked the fact that it was ours.

Ten years later, I'm still fiddling on it and it has grown to a real open-source project that you can find on github [0]. It's still primarly here to serve me since I'm the only maintainer but starts to be driven by external propositions. It's meant to be easy to deploy, easy to use, cheap in resources and reliable.

[0] https://github.com/zusam/zusam

Would Zusam work?

You could also add a link to the project and not just your blog: https://github.com/zusam/zusam

Github Repo

I actually came across Zusam which does video processing to some extent, so I'm thinking I'll take a closer look at that and see whether it does any downsizing or at least embeds it (all the forums I've tried so far just attach a video as a file attachment, and you download to view).