squaretictactoe VS ZudVPN

More than 6 years back, I left my job without any idea of what I'd do. I just couldn't work anymore and leaving was the priority.

After months of doing nothing much, I decided to implement a game (which I came up with in school, and had also created a basic version in college). I had an electronics background, so I did know programming basics and had to write Perl scripts at work. However, I didn't know much of Java (had a course in school) and Android. Somehow, over the course of a year, I made the app.

The main game idea I had in school was simple inspiration from tic-tac-toe. Make squares instead of lines on a 4x4 board. While writing the code, I was ever trying to make it impressive. So, I came up lots of choices - larger board sizes (up to 12x12) for both tic-tac-toe and the square ones, with blocking moves.

To monetize, I added ads. After release, I got about 0.12 dollars or something over few months. I just removed the ads instead of trying to salvage it. I had bought a domain/hosting, so financially, it was a loss.

In hindsight, biggest issue was UI/UX and not knowing how to promote. I'm still proud of the code I implemented for computer moves.

App is no longer on play store (because it stopped working on newer versions), but you can still see screenshots here: https://github.com/learnbyexample/squaretictactoe

I wanted to re-implement in Python later, started it but never finished. May be next year ;)

I am creating an open source VPN application for mobile phones (iOS, Android) and a chrome extension as a proxy. I wonder what features people expect from a VPN.

My MVP is that the app will functions as a VPN launcher on user's preferred Cloud Provider like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean, Vultr and any other major cloud provider that offers API access.

Features, I envision to add are: Ad-blocking by DNS, VPN Kill Switch, Static IP (if provider has it), IKEv2 IPSec-based VPN solution like strongSwan, and since the server belongs to the user, I plan to add a Terminal right in the app so that the user could connect and do anything they want.

Since the app is an open-source I pushed initial PR to GitHub so that anyone can scrutinize the code: https://github.com/zudvpn/zudvpn

- In your components, just call `useStore` hook and require whatever state property you need: https://github.com/zudvpn/ZudVPN/blob/master/src/screens/MainScreen/index.tsx#L13

GitHub: https://github.com/zudvpn/ZudVPN

When I first started on react native I used react-native-navigation and never looked back. I don't have any experience with react-navigation. So far I can't complain about react-native-navigation on https://github.com/zudvpn/ZudVPN

When using random VPN are you sure the risk is not owned by you? Here is the cloud config init data that is used to create the server: https://github.com/zudvpn/ZudVPN/blob/master/src/providers/DigitalOcean/cloudconfig.tsx Feel free to see if it's worth the risk or not.