how to run simulations in your browser

Dylan Molina — Sun, 21 May 2023 14:27:59 +0000

hey everyone — so i built this app that lets you spin up simulations in your browser with no code.

it’s called simulacra labs.

tbh it’s pretty fun + easy to use. let me show you how.

first — go to the simulacra web app.

next you’re gonna wanna select a simulation using the selection box above start simulation. i recommend starting with the double-agent simulation if you want more of a hands-off experience.

now just sit back and watch some cool stuff unfold!

right now all of the simulations are text-based, but this will change soon.

additionally — while the simulation is loading you’ll be able to view + copy the code for the agents that you’re deploying so that you get an idea of what’s going on under the hood.

i plan on open-sourcing this soon.

let me know what you think! i started working on this for a hackathon hosted by founder’s inc a few days ago and am curious about this tech so i wanna keep hacking on it and see how it goes lol.

s/o to langchain and stanford university for doing research into and providing implementations for the agents that make these simulations possible (respectively)!

also — if you wanna support me and my work you can help me out by engaging with my launch tweet!

thnx for reading!

— dylan

i built a react library for adding leaderboards to your app in minutes

Dylan Molina — Mon, 08 May 2023 21:52:52 +0000

yo, what's up 👋

i'm dylan - a high school senior and a software builder.

in the last two days i've built the first version of flywheel - a react library with one component (for now) - a dynamic leaderboard that’s hooked up to your app’s data and ranks items the way you want them to be ranked.

i made a quick demo of me going from create-react-app to a fully working leaderboard in 4 minutes lol:

how i got here is a pretty long story lol. here's a quick TL;DR if you're interested

i built + launched the original version of flywheel at a hackathon in san francisco on february 1st.

it used to be a platform where founders could join a leaderboard w/ their founder friends based on their number of users - but then game devs and community builders started asking me to build leaderboards for them lol.

the more i thought about it and the more people i talked to the more i realized that adding leaderboards to your app can be a real pain - especially if you need it fast for a small project or a hackathon. i esp felt this pain since i was building the leaderboard manually for the original product.

so i built a web app where you could fill out a couple of inputs and get a link to a leaderboard you could share with your users/players/friends for them to join.

but users wanted more control.

they wanted to not only embed the leaderboards in their frontends but to have more granular access to the columns + props that the leaderboard used.

so i shipped this!

the library is fully open-source btw.

also s/o to tremor and tailwind - i'm using them for the skeleton + styling of the leaderboard cards (for now).

lmk what you think!

i'm working w/ a couple co's to test the components w/ their data and am gonna be iterating quickly. this is just v0.0.9!

p.s. i also wrote up some docs in case you're looking for a more technical dive into flywheel :)

written with ❤️ and 🍵 by dylan (a fellow dev)

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how to run simulations in your browser

i built a react library for adding leaderboards to your app in minutes