Why it was made

Nobody reconstructing the night from memory

I started building my app while playing online with my poker group a few months ago. Spun up a rudimentary game in 40 minutes between hands.

I have been with this poker group since high school. Every thanksgiving and Christmas when we’re all back in our hometown, we would always get together at someone’s mom’s house and have a game. We started playing on a website called Donkhouse during Covid lockdowns. Then, sadly, that website shut down and there wasn’t a good replacement for people who just want to play a game of Texas hold ‘em online with their friends.

I worked as a database engineer for the last ten years. I got laid off from my job a couple weeks ago and spent that time going full tilt on my app. Added a front end, logins, authentication, stats, everything but payment systems to actually generate money (coming after beta). Took it from a thing that my friends and I used every couple weeks to get together to a full blown website in that time. Learned a lot but realizing I have only scratched the surface of agentic coding.

So after doing ten years as a database engineer (who’s touched every layer of the stack at one time or another during that time) I decided that am pivoting to being a professional agentic engineer. Gonna spend the next few months cramming and either go out on my own as a consultant to help small and medium business automate workflows, or get a full time gig doing it for someone else. I have 9 months of runway without selling any of my stocks. Wish me luck.

App is live but still in beta (so its still free to use).

Make a profile, host a table, play poker with your friends, and let me know what you like and (more importantly) what you don’t like.