
Megarares
Old School Runescape GE price tracker and flipping tools
This is where it starts.
Whenever I played OSRS on and off I always liked the idea of making money by buying and selling things. This started out as flipping lobsters for a 20gp margin in Varrock back in mid-2000s and has evolved to the grand exchange and the various increasingly in-game market analysis tools we have available to us.
All of these tools bug me because they paywall the most basic features, which are easy to make, don't create costs and are mostly UX improvements over the already available information.
In the typical software engineer fashion I decided to make my own version of these tools - megarares. Unlike the other available tools, I do not intend to paywall features that are user experience improvements or features that are based entirely on data you can get for free from the official OSRS price API.
This is the underlying mission behind this project - to create something valuable to give back to the community without optimizing for revenue.
About
OSRS is a game that I love deeply and so I wanted to a side-project that would let me give back to the community while also creating learning opportunities on how to grow a project.

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Congrats on the launch! Out of curiosity, which analytics metric ended up being the biggest eye-opener for you, retention, activation, or something unexpected?