There's two files:

• ./install.sh - this installs things
• ./startup.sh - this runs the server and opens the browser

Let's start with some reading background to understand what we're dealing with.

This game works off of an SQLite database which gets set up automatically by running api/update.py, which "updates" to the schema found in api/db.py and then gets recent quotes to populate it.

Before you proceed however, you'll need redis which maintains an http cache of the API results so we don't need to hit the server each time:

 $ sudo apt install redis-server

After that's installed and running you can run update.py as many times as you need. It won't put in duplicate records and the caching system will prevent you from naively hitting the api quota.

After this is done. You can run api/server.py, which has the executable bit set:

 $ ./server.py

Currently the html game uses document.location.host + :4100 to look up the server. You'll have to separately host the game on something like apache, nginx or you can run python3 -m http.server in the fe/web directory to server it on port 8000.

The overall design of the games:

Mostly we are dealing with SPAs which use a light amount of non-frameworked javascript and standard html/css.

The server side is broken up into two parts:

• A data aggregator that assembles stocks and quotes, placing them into the database

• A flask server for serving these cached assets

Most of this is based on Brooks' Plan one to throw away design along with Tracer Bullets from Hunt & Thomas.

This is to find the right Product/Market Fit based on Andreesseen and Reid.

These games are ultimately simple with information gathering in them in order to get the right set of customers to do the right set of things