OP's app is Gloomhaven Secretary.
The other app is X-Haven Assistant.
I announced a similar app, Gloomhaven Full Stack, before either of those apps were started and before GH Helper was discontinued.
All of our apps can exist only because of the generosity of Gloomhaven's creator, Isaac Childres. He made all the game assets available for use in apps as long as we don't make money. And we are all building on the success of GH Helper. We are standing on the shoulders of giants.
Everything OP says about XH Assistant, I could be saying about GH Secretary. I had all the features before both of them. I have original features that they both "copy". (I did it first, but ideas are cheap, and they may have come up with it independently.) But they both look a lot nicer than mine. I feel jealousy too, but I understand why users would like the other apps more than mine.
After my initial jealousy, I was actually quite glad they existed because I could now tell users if they don't like my app, no worries try one of these others. I include links to the other apps when I post updates to my app. I often tell users about GHS along side my own app if they both address a user's issue.
To address my own jealousy, I try to feel more gratitude. I think of it as healthy competition and happy to promote competitors if they are more what the user wants. I should probably do more to acknowledge the apps that inspired me.
For now, my app still has features the others don't. I created my app to do more than GH Helper, intentionally not be a clone and experiment with ways of doing things differently from GH Helper, and to combine the functionality of 4 different apps that I was previously using. I am resolved to the fact that the other apps might eventually implement all those features, but I will continue with my app as long as I have new ideas I want to add.
Haha, I never thought ANYONE would read my post nor did I thought that one of GH app creators would. That's why I was explicit with my projects what I am talking about. So maybe I give my 2 cents to your comment.
First of all, I think you're still a bit out of competition, because FHA and GHS are really clones of the old GHH. So it's like the chess app has gone, we create two chess app clones and you do 3d-chess app. So in that case my comparison about features is really about covering the original app and not about new features I added. So first disclaimer, but you already know that: I really appreciate the work of the other app devs. I wouldn't be able to support all the editions, if I couldn't scrape all the data from FHA. And I am never ever jealous, if people prefer one app over another. In this particular case, it's really about the Reddit visibility (and GH community there): An update from my side gain ~30 upvotes, FHA ~180 in half of the time. Because of that there are also more comments and many comments like: "I still use the old app, would like to switch if you have feature XY (from the old app)" and they seem to just not heard about any other app exists and already support that feature. To go the chess metaphor, I am talking about people used to play the normal chess, they used to it. Your 3d-chess might be a good replacement too, but it's just not the same. And then they asking when the knight will be implemented so they can switch (I totally exaggerate here, don't want to boil down the good and hard work of FHA!), I am just looking and thinking, the knight is working like month ago, my last update was about multiplayer. But again, I am not jealous in that way, that I think they should please use my app, because I am better and so on. But due to Reddits sorting, they just haven't even heard about other app existing. And yeah, I don't want to play those social algorithms. GHS get mentioned enough and already a lot of people like it. But it was now the third time where I posted an update and 1-3 days later, FHA update is killing just everything regarding upvotes and feedback. And then I am jealous. That's all and I ranted a bit about that on the internet. Now it's there, and I felt memories about my other project, where I also tried to get some attention I was more jealous, because then the other projects gaining more attention were really out of scope and I couldn't even appreciate any of this.
Fair enough. My app is somewhere between GH Helper and a light-weight Table Top Simulator mod. I would definitely feel happier knowing that your app and others are not going to add all the features mine adds. haha. :)
By the way Lurkars, I love your app, and would probably be using it if I hadn't created my own. :)
I appreciate your post here and think a nice rant can be a reasonable way to address ego and jealousy. I have similar feelings as you and have ranted to my friends some of the same things you said.
In the end though, for both of us, I think the jealousy is mostly unfounded. We can rant and then should probably let it go.
Feels good to hear, that you feel a bit the same. I just thinks we both don't have this reputation for Reddit algorithm or maybe mods boost some posts of people they already knew. I am not sure how Reddit works in that way and I am always using chronological sorting on explicit subreddits, so I do not miss any posts. But it seems like a lot of people are more like the frontpage users and our posts just don't show up that much.
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OP's app is Gloomhaven Secretary. The other app is X-Haven Assistant. I announced a similar app, Gloomhaven Full Stack, before either of those apps were started and before GH Helper was discontinued.
All of our apps can exist only because of the generosity of Gloomhaven's creator, Isaac Childres. He made all the game assets available for use in apps as long as we don't make money. And we are all building on the success of GH Helper. We are standing on the shoulders of giants.
Everything OP says about XH Assistant, I could be saying about GH Secretary. I had all the features before both of them. I have original features that they both "copy". (I did it first, but ideas are cheap, and they may have come up with it independently.) But they both look a lot nicer than mine. I feel jealousy too, but I understand why users would like the other apps more than mine.
After my initial jealousy, I was actually quite glad they existed because I could now tell users if they don't like my app, no worries try one of these others. I include links to the other apps when I post updates to my app. I often tell users about GHS along side my own app if they both address a user's issue.
To address my own jealousy, I try to feel more gratitude. I think of it as healthy competition and happy to promote competitors if they are more what the user wants. I should probably do more to acknowledge the apps that inspired me.
For now, my app still has features the others don't. I created my app to do more than GH Helper, intentionally not be a clone and experiment with ways of doing things differently from GH Helper, and to combine the functionality of 4 different apps that I was previously using. I am resolved to the fact that the other apps might eventually implement all those features, but I will continue with my app as long as I have new ideas I want to add.