Thread by @Conaw

Alright - @thepericulum and I are working through the night to try to pick winners for #roamgames 1 and 2

These submissions are absolutely unreal - and we're only 2 weeks into the planned 12 week experiment.

I'm just going to start by tweeting out top contenders and comments

For Challenge 1:

The obvious pick for me was going to be @houshuang's Roam/inter

it's a solid MVP that pushes true multiplayer graphs forward by at least 6 months

https://twitter.com/houshuang/status/1355324543913648130?s=20

What shocked me here were two things - even though I hinted this was a likely winner, only two (+ me) put forward anything that I could see as "riffing" on the idea, or nudging it forward at all.

@nathanlippi and @kvistgaard

https://twitter.com/kvistgaard/status/1355428094987874304?s=20

https://twitter.com/nathanlippi/status/1358129716805447688?s=20

@houshuang clearly built off ideas that came from our team, and from how #RBC @RoamBookClub operates - and built on them really well - but less from the broader community.

Bit unclear what to do here.

The other top contenders -- @MatMcGann @RoamBounties and @dvargas92495 for the Slack Integration.

Just like Roam/Inter - the result is a super powerful primitive that we'll likely use for our team and any other team can build into their workflow too

https://twitter.com/MatMcGann/status/1358909629372133378?s=20

But then we have @zsviczian - the absolute madman - who built off of @dvargas92495, @roamhacker, @cortexfutura

and basically recreated all of JIRA inside Roam - which I really had no idea was possible

Honestly baffled.

https://twitter.com/zsviczian/status/1355928113558003724

zsolt.blog/2021/01/agile-…

Seriously - watch this.

WTF!

For Second Challenge - I really have to hand it to @brgodefroy for slicing the Gordion Knot here.

Right now there is a ton of Roam Knowledge split up into Slack - the discord forum, reddit, twitter, and various public graphs.

Bruno appears to use em all

https://twitter.com/brgodefroy/status/1358910369591418880?s=20

If this does use the slack archives (which it should) - have to give some credit to @AbhayPrasanna who got me to make @thepericulum an admin on slack - so we could give the export to the community.

Super inclined to embed this search into our new help window.

Then we have @wandcrafting, @RobertHaisfield, and @anirudhbadri - extremely in the spirit of the #RoamGames

https://twitter.com/RobertHaisfield/status/1356994023282536453?s=20

And @maskys_ and @OlliTiainen - citing @roamhacker, @DannyHatcher, @Roamfu to create this fantastic graph of ideas, criticisms and suggestions

roamresearch.com/#/app/RoamGlow…

https://twitter.com/maskys_/status/1358977183776182277?s=20

I also really like @Roamfu and @rjnestor's RoamBooks / Course - but core goals of the #RoamGames are to get folks building off each others' work - these don't quite seem a fit.

https://twitter.com/Roamfu/status/1358766013215502340?s=20

Couple things I'm thinking.

We pick a winner to get 70% the prize - they pick who gets next 20% - those pick next 10%.

Like - I want to reward both the best submissions - but a big qualification of best submission is - do they make it easy for others to push the idea further?