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  • Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
  • iOS app: apps.apple.com...
    Android: app: play.google.co...
    voidpet.com/
    Linda's TikTok: / lindashad
    #benawad #voidpet #VoidLog
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Комментарии • 229

  • @bawad
    @bawad  Год назад +87

    iOS app: apps.apple.com/us/app/voidpet/id1668932264?itsct=apps_box_link&itscg=30200
    Android: app: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.voidpet&hl=en_US&gl=US
    Let me know what you think of it 😄

    • @estebanod
      @estebanod Год назад +1

      Just downloaded it, it’s pretty cute and the UI is agreeable to use so far :)

    • @jerome_ee6522
      @jerome_ee6522 Год назад

      You should pin this

    • @mfbx9da4
      @mfbx9da4 Год назад +2

      I have no idea how to play it I'm so lost

    • @v119-h2d
      @v119-h2d Год назад

      Couldn't you make the website into a PWA that could be published on the app stores?

    • @samueladex7252
      @samueladex7252 Год назад

      Do you use expo-cli or react native cli

  • @yazidmohammedbouguedra4523
    @yazidmohammedbouguedra4523 Год назад +912

    "The motivation for this project came from depression" felt that.

  • @NeetCode
    @NeetCode Год назад +531

    I'm just happy he hasn't dropped this project yet 🥺
    Ben, if you read this, feel free to upload more, we love you bro

    • @FandZ23
      @FandZ23 Год назад +4

      yes please 🥺 🙏 I miss the top echelon sarcasm

    • @kevinmitnick1301
      @kevinmitnick1301 Год назад +15

      Love you too Neetcode !!

    • @LuccasLab
      @LuccasLab Год назад +5

      Man I love ya both, y'all are top-tier content creators. RUclips goals right here

    • @arnobchowdhury9641
      @arnobchowdhury9641 Год назад

      Wow. NeetCode is here as well. We love both of you. Keep doing what you are doing.

    • @birukbelay2385
      @birukbelay2385 Год назад

      man you know it is good when neetcode comments on your video, both of you are legends, we love your contents keep it up both of ya

  • @ba8e
    @ba8e Год назад +295

    "Developers want mobile websites. Consumers want apps." - Absolutely love this quote!

    • @WyzrdCat
      @WyzrdCat Год назад +45

      I hate it. Consumers are stupid. Apps suck.

    • @max-diaz
      @max-diaz Год назад

      @@WyzrdCat as I consumer and developer, I disagree. I love apps and hate mobile websites (looking at you StackOverflow).

    • @herohera3497
      @herohera3497 Год назад +20

      @@WyzrdCat imagine separate app for everything yuck

    • @syedzaki007
      @syedzaki007 Год назад +1

      @@herohera3497 ikr

    • @laksitowp
      @laksitowp Год назад +1

      @@WyzrdCat yea. you only need 1 app. the browser! lol

  • @dholemic
    @dholemic 4 месяца назад +1

    im so into voidpet honestly. i apreciate your hardwork on the project. thank you

  • @depafrom5277
    @depafrom5277 Год назад +19

    Well done for sticking it through this time.. the nice thing about getting started is you can always pivot off into something else and still be ahead as opposed to not having started anything at all.

  • @limitmaker3158
    @limitmaker3158 Год назад +30

    It's great to see how far you've gone since running into you learning FeathersJS. Time flies.

  • @RuNacken
    @RuNacken Год назад +36

    Loved that bit of "Gamers love desktop things" ASMR

  • @volzey
    @volzey Год назад +150

    It's a shame there aren't more channels who do this kind of content. Might jump on it as well.

    • @soulninjadev
      @soulninjadev Год назад +9

      Ben didn't start like this, doing this at scale requires you to have an audience already, there are multiple youtubers creating content Ben created long ago just so that they can grow and possibly at a later point in time, build things like this
      also what are your thoughts on straight away doing builder logs and not doing any tutorials?

    • @volzey
      @volzey Год назад +8

      ​@@soulninjadev I see it as being similar to how people make devlogs on their own video games. Take ThinMatrix, Pontypants or Dani as an example, they never really did any tutorials (though ThinMatrix did a few years ago), yet I consider them a success. I don't think the reason for a channel's growth is their audience before their first devlog like videos, but mainly because of the quality of their videos, their personality, their target audience and what they offer to their target audience (throw the video title and thumbnail in it as well).
      I've been a viewer of Ben for maybe about 2 years now, on different accounts. Ben's got a great personality and the way he makes his videos I find it entertaining :D

    • @TheMordano
      @TheMordano Год назад +6

      ​@@soulninjadev To answer your question from my perspective:
      I am a developer, I love videos from Ben, Joma, ThinMatrix, CodeBullet, and other devs. For me a tutorial is not really interesting, unless I want/need to learn a specific tech right now. But builder/dev logs and general project related videos are interesting and can spark new ideas for your own or show your other perspectives to boost your innovations.
      So if @Volzey would start an interesting project with a devlog, I would probably watch it. But if he would do tutorials, I wouldn't be his target audience.
      The two kind of videos are different.. yeah, kinds. So you will attract different kinds of people.
      Btw I would assume that a tutorial channel has less potential to build a strong community. But that is just my guess :)

    • @soulninjadev
      @soulninjadev Год назад +1

      @@volzey gotcha, thanks for the perspectives; was thinking of making devlogs but didn't know if it would find an audience, looks like it would!

    • @soulninjadev
      @soulninjadev Год назад +1

      @@TheMordano thanks for your thoughts too!

  • @coherentpanda7115
    @coherentpanda7115 Год назад +7

    Congrats on the release! As someone who learned a ton about JavaScript backend development from you, I'll be downloading the Android app for sure and show my support.

  • @codetothemoon
    @codetothemoon Год назад +7

    Congrats on the launch Ben!! 🎉

  • @TMinusRecords
    @TMinusRecords Год назад +20

    That app feels amazing, such great animations, consistent and beautiful art/ui style and seems really responsive.

  • @toast8089
    @toast8089 Год назад +13

    I havent downloaded it yet but it would be 100x better if you had the newest iphone with the island shit your void pet out chill on the island on the home screen

  • @vystorm
    @vystorm Год назад +4

    The app is good for gen z as well, a lot of us don't use desktops
    I do hope you eventually get full feature parity and crossplay between the web and mobile version tho ☺️ bring everyone together that way!

  • @MrPatsCodes
    @MrPatsCodes Год назад +2

    Bruh. You have been my inspiration on starting to make videos. I'm so happy every time you upload new videos. please keep us posted :). this game looks great.

  • @brandondcruz9778
    @brandondcruz9778 Год назад +1

    This is beautiful man omfg y'all made something fucking beautiful

  • @ivomuze
    @ivomuze Год назад +37

    "react native is a beautiful piece of technology if you close your eyes"

    • @thatsalot3577
      @thatsalot3577 Год назад +6

      and don't use any third party packages because they keep changing their apis every 5 seconds

    • @rahmat-un4od
      @rahmat-un4od Год назад +1

      or sleep

    • @ivomuze
      @ivomuze Год назад

      ​@@thatsalot3577 they just assume no human is able to update react native version LOL

    • @max-diaz
      @max-diaz Год назад +1

      Honestly, if I were to use a cross platform framework, I'd choose Flutter, but I understand why Ben chose RN.

  • @jacklwipa1187
    @jacklwipa1187 Год назад +1

    Love your content and ambition, keep up the great energy!!

  • @clintl326
    @clintl326 Год назад +4

    Great video! Keep up the important work you are doing. You could be a pioneer in a new type of video (at least to me) of developers describing their progress!

  • @t3dotgg
    @t3dotgg Год назад +2

    “If you close your eyes” omfg

  • @acykablyatley
    @acykablyatley Год назад +1

    f150 jets when f22 pickup trucks show up

  • @shadowbytee
    @shadowbytee Год назад +5

    Can you please drop a video on how you created the Voidpet Application using React Native especially how you were able to achieve the UI. The UI looks really awesome

  • @deandrewpowell
    @deandrewpowell Год назад +4

    Just downloaded it and congratulations on making it to mobile app store. Hopefully in the future y'all left people who don't use discord save progress to email or Google account . I can't wait to see future updates and thing y'all add to the game at some point

  • @TheRideshareHub
    @TheRideshareHub Год назад +8

    I hope this app does truly become a unicorn, Ben deserves this and much more

  • @firedforfighting
    @firedforfighting Год назад +1

    Can't wait to check this out..this is so inspiring!!! Thank you!

  • @KevinNaughtonJr
    @KevinNaughtonJr Год назад

    congrats on the launch Ben and Linda!!! :)

  • @gosnooky
    @gosnooky Год назад +1

    Good call. I'm a dev who uses a computer all day, and much prefer to casually game on my phone, and much more likely to interact with it much more often.

  • @kiri374
    @kiri374 Год назад +5

    after randomly clicking your channel for the first time in a month you uploaded a video a few minutes ago 👁️

  • @PhilipDenys
    @PhilipDenys Год назад +1

    0:28 sudden growth of hair in seconds

  • @Aimes
    @Aimes Год назад

    love the design style, congrats

  • @teroliikala
    @teroliikala Год назад +2

    This is amazing, just downloaded the game and it seems great!

  • @gummypotatoes2887
    @gummypotatoes2887 Год назад +1

    Man, do I hate Java Swing. I made some cool things in college with it, but you're 100% right about the UI.

  • @mikijane4714
    @mikijane4714 Год назад +2

    just downloaded the game. its very calming and lovely :)

  • @spiralcat6376
    @spiralcat6376 9 месяцев назад

    Just found this game and I love it already

  • @Lemons-Vr
    @Lemons-Vr Год назад

    You should add greatfull as a lemon like the saying if life gives you lemons throw it back and ask for chocolate that should be the first stage then it learns to appreciate the little things like lemons and flowers and bees

  • @EffectEcho
    @EffectEcho Год назад +1

    app switch is a great move dude

  • @miervaldis42
    @miervaldis42 Год назад +1

    That's a cool project :) I also want to build a React Native small game, so it is quite inspiring to see your progress
    6:48 It is not your Japanese is bad, it is more that if you don't know how Japanese cuts words into really specific syllables (the set you see in hiragana & katakana), you miss pronounce the word ;) Here, it's Ne / ko A / tsu / me, and not Ne / ko At / su / me because the "-at" syllable doesn't exist.

  • @theshooter89
    @theshooter89 Год назад

    This just amazing, really

  • @NotesNNotes
    @NotesNNotes Год назад

    The cuddle feature really is so fucking cute

  • @saumyaranjannayak2101
    @saumyaranjannayak2101 Год назад

    im downloading this now, keep documenting!

  • @vonderklaas
    @vonderklaas Год назад +1

    App runs very smooooth, good job!

  • @cporrast
    @cporrast Год назад

    Amazing design, hope it works out!

  • @vsolyomi
    @vsolyomi Год назад

    Oh, that's just wonderful!

  • @soulninjadev
    @soulninjadev Год назад +1

    gonna shill this in the 2 weeks of school I've remaining 😩

  • @JasonGoodison
    @JasonGoodison Год назад +1

    Admire your ability to iterate so quickly

  • @jjfattz
    @jjfattz Год назад

    I'm lovin the Karen Mullet look.

  • @harshvirtomar6552
    @harshvirtomar6552 Год назад

    He is turning white with time like a vampire

  • @TheDjTotzy
    @TheDjTotzy Год назад +1

    I'm gonna need some advice on your ci/cd strategy with RN. I think ppl would really appreciate these kind of tech content 🤗

  • @JohnVandivier
    @JohnVandivier Год назад

    Kudos. Growth.

  • @haseeb9621
    @haseeb9621 Год назад

    I really enjoyed it!

  • @SWinxyTheCat
    @SWinxyTheCat Год назад +1

    Swing isn't a bad UI toolkit! (I contribute to the Java desktop library.)

  • @_dekinci
    @_dekinci Год назад

    As a person who had around 5 hours of playtime and then churned - for me it was lacking depth. I came with some signs of depression and wanted something to poke that feeling, and while petsvisuals are close to it, the game (and gameplay) is not really. I expected something that will bring my inner feelings out, but faced one more training game. Where for some reason I have to grow my negative emotions stronger, and while I see traces of "learn to live with it", it's mostly tucked away behind fighting and evolution. Need more "art" in metaphorical sense

  • @SoHawful
    @SoHawful Год назад +1

    Oh this game is actually super cute

  • @NotesNNotes
    @NotesNNotes Год назад

    I love this Ben

  • @the_real_cookiez
    @the_real_cookiez Год назад

    Legitimate question: how do you keep yourself afloat without a day job? Or do you have some sort of income elsewhere while pursuing your projects and content creating?

  • @dannyroberts4067
    @dannyroberts4067 Год назад

    Big fan Ben, go out and get some photons though dude

  • @jackmiddleton2080
    @jackmiddleton2080 Год назад

    I plan to make a web game and I am massively drawn towards desktop only, as a former hardcore gamer myself. I can't stand mobile gaming. I want people to have the full visual and control experience of a desktop. It is a magnum opus project on a big backburner but I will have to consider this issue deeply.

  • @nothappyz
    @nothappyz Год назад

    Ben, I don' think I've ever said this, but this app is a banger

  • @aounleonardo
    @aounleonardo Год назад +17

    You said you're making 3k a month, may I ask how are you getting that? Did you receive investment for Voidpet, monetize it, or you're taking part-time contracts?

    • @ratatacks
      @ratatacks Год назад +36

      I'm just guessing that came form all the users giving him money, when you have a big youtube channel its easier to start projects like this because you already have the audience, you just need to sell a product

    • @piface3016
      @piface3016 Год назад +15

      Probably just from 600 people buying the $5/month subscription

  • @danny-jo1rb
    @danny-jo1rb Год назад +1

    what is an f150 jet?

  • @cornelcristianfilip5048
    @cornelcristianfilip5048 Год назад

    Great game bro'! Congrats!
    Keep it up!
    🤘

  • @konzaa2155
    @konzaa2155 Год назад

    Going to give you honest critic as I am not a die hard supporter and I create games: Tutorial is information overload, especially in times where attention span is too short, and after reading all that information where a lot is actually just useless and you forget, you “explore” the rest of the app but there is literally nothing else to do, but to water trees, then once you’ve done that what then?. Best is to make new players feel like they are intuitively playing the game without a tutorial. After all that you’re just staring at the grass in front of you and leave the app.

  • @brencancer
    @brencancer Год назад

    "if you close your eyes"

  • @mauriciomatias6261
    @mauriciomatias6261 Год назад

    Congrats!!!! 🎉

  • @ricardorien
    @ricardorien Год назад

    Keep going!

  • @EvilDuck2137
    @EvilDuck2137 7 месяцев назад

    i play it for fun, it would be cool if it was on pc too

  • @hantu4321
    @hantu4321 Год назад

    Title is ambiguous this is game development story totally different than CRUD

  • @andy_ppp
    @andy_ppp Год назад

    Are you trying to become the same shade of colour as your wall?

  • @amkamn1886
    @amkamn1886 Год назад +1

    Next episode : After 10 months of building App, I switched to Desktop App

  • @fueledbycoffee583
    @fueledbycoffee583 Год назад +1

    i wonder if it was reasonable or possible to port the web to an app using a PWA. ofcourse you will need to have a good ui library so it feels native

  • @somebradly
    @somebradly Год назад

    It’s lovely! Would you add translations? I know a bunch of people that need this app but don’t know English

  • @mattsparksy
    @mattsparksy Год назад

    return of the king

  • @anasouardini
    @anasouardini Год назад

    hey tell us about the non technical aspect of pushing your ideas forward in the real world.

  • @iJuce
    @iJuce Год назад +1

    Programming languages used for the app?

  • @Hazanko83
    @Hazanko83 Год назад

    ''the idea is to have kids as familiar with the words 'anxious' and 'lonely' as they are with squirtle or charmander''
    ... I doubt many kids need a video game to get them there lol

  • @Dnp_2
    @Dnp_2 Год назад

    Finally 2bio project rebooting

  • @Nick.....
    @Nick..... Год назад

    I failed my Java black jack assignment so I feel ur pain

  • @wahibakamoulcode
    @wahibakamoulcode Год назад

    here we go again...

  • @tobychidi
    @tobychidi Год назад

    This is awesome

  • @ahslanabanana
    @ahslanabanana Год назад

    Ben's such a cutie patootie🥰🥰

  • @wolfiegames1572
    @wolfiegames1572 Год назад +1

    Benjamin moment

  • @ngneerin
    @ngneerin Год назад

    Where is the competition? Where is the social?

  • @tzuilee588
    @tzuilee588 Год назад

    Will check out the app😁

  • @sipp5657
    @sipp5657 Год назад +1

    Let's gooo 🔥🔥

  • @tomrowe2181
    @tomrowe2181 Год назад +2

    Although you need an app to reach the target market you still did it the right way... Web first gets you to MVP faster and lets you iterate with a beta community.
    Only when you know it has potential should you ever put the time into app development.
    One day though PWA's on all the app stores will be seamless, one day

  • @estebanod
    @estebanod Год назад +1

    6:49 ha 😳

  • @obiaboimmanuel8729
    @obiaboimmanuel8729 Год назад

    where is your tie ??

  • @tianhuili5139
    @tianhuili5139 4 месяца назад

    @bawad, why did you choose react native over a nextjs PWA?

  • @DylanMatthewTurner
    @DylanMatthewTurner Год назад

    I dig it

  • @coolsai
    @coolsai Год назад

    Really Great app!

  • @NixronBarrak
    @NixronBarrak Год назад

    Hey! You're that guy i saw on twitter!

  • @joshrogan3577
    @joshrogan3577 Год назад +1

    Duolingo for depression

  • @piface3016
    @piface3016 Год назад +1

    6:50 I like both the website and the app but at the same time it's kinda weird to her "The website was too ambitious, so we decided to stretch the resources even thinner and build two separate things." Are you totally scrapping the website and leaving it incomplete?

    • @Chex_Mex
      @Chex_Mex Год назад +4

      That's 100% what they're doing. I wouldn't expect any further updates on the website from here on out, especially since they mentioned that the gameplay loop itself was different on the app, meaning there's no feature parity or expectation to keep them in lockstep.

  • @wuzahns5302
    @wuzahns5302 Год назад +5

    I think people use this only because you are the creator. honestly

    • @speedfastman
      @speedfastman Год назад +2

      This could be commented on every Dani video.

  • @k.8597
    @k.8597 Год назад +1

    Did you develop it separately for iOS and Android? As in, did you use some intermediary stack to deploy it on both platforms or did you work on each individually?

  • @kdiffin
    @kdiffin Год назад +1

    mashAllah

  • @varandpezeshkian6299
    @varandpezeshkian6299 Год назад +1

    did you use expo?

  • @Mobilemaniaplays
    @Mobilemaniaplays 7 месяцев назад

    Bro iam also a fullstack app and web developer. I want to contribute in your future projects. How can I do that ?

  • @user-jb4jh
    @user-jb4jh Год назад

    Coool

  • @rod6722
    @rod6722 Год назад

    Dragonite represent!