Rohith Varanasi grew up in Jersey and had a chill childhood, playing videos games and sports from a young age. He wanted to learn how to build a video game, and upon googling it, decided he should build a website first. At that point.. he was hooked on coding. He got into jailbreaking the playstation and writing real code to mod games. Eventually, he got into hackathons and ended up building a web browser based on SMS called Cosmos - which went viral. Outside of tech, he is into paddle, loves going to the gym, and hanging with his girlfriend and their 1 year old cat.Ro and his co-founder have been building a bunch of different consumer products. The latest product they built allows people to earn in game rewards by walking, and do so in a non-deterministic way. Under the hood, they are using generative AI to create endless outcomes, and optimal replay-ability.This is the creation story of Block Party.SponsorsSpeakeasyQA WolfSnapTradeLinkshttps://blockparty.gamehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/brohith/Our Sponsors:* Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.comSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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And so we have this constant feed of things that we can build. And I think right now things are constantly moving around as we get new users on board and priorities are shifting. But primarily like the focus, our North Star is can we make this like fun? Not going to make this fun just one time, but can we make this be an infinite source of fun?
That sort of helps us align with our roadmap and our decision-making of, okay, does this sort of get us closer to that vision of building these infinite games that never run out of content and are dynamic and are shaped by the players that play them? My name is Rohit Varanasi, and I'm the co-founder and CEO of Block Party.
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Rohith Varanasi grew up in Jersey and had a chill childhood playing video games and sports from a young age. He wanted to learn how to build a video game and upon Googling it, decided he should build a website first. And at that point, he was hooked on coding. He got into jailbreaking the PlayStation and writing real code to mod games.
Eventually, he got into hackathons and ended up building a web browser based on SMS called Cosmos, which went viral. Outside of tech, he's into paddle, loves going to the gym and hanging with his girlfriend and their one-year-old cat. Ro and his co-founder have been building a bunch of different consumer products.
The latest product they built allows people to earn in-game rewards by walking and do so in a non-deterministic way. Under the hood, they are using generative AI to create endless outcomes and optimal replayability. This is the creation story of Block Party.
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