Show HN: Poker Skills Website for Beginners – With Boss/Panic Screen (pokerpupil.com)

I enjoy playing poker with my friends, but I have to admit, I’m a classic ‘fish’, particularly after a beer!

I’ve created a web app where fellow fish can practice their poker skills for free against bots.

www.pokerpupil.com

As a homage to old computer games, I’ve added a boss/panic screen: press ‘b’ to open a fake spreadsheet. (Desktop web only)

My hope is us fellow fish can rise up and take down our next home game.

I built the game in Flutter, using this tutorial as a base: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSN2hBf8D5Q

Things I liked about Flutter:

(1) Components are fun to build. The instant preview when you save your code never gets old.

(2) Lots of really nice pre-built UI to get you up and running quickly.

(3) Write the code once, launch on multiple surfaces (iOS, Android, Web, Mac, Windows). This capability is inspiring me to build a lot more software!

(4) Decent community of developers.

Things that were less good:

(1) Takes a while to load, particularly on mobile. (~4MB download)

(2) Seems too “heavy” for everyday web projects. But fine for larger web apps / desktop / mobile software.

(3) Working out how to use Provider was intimidating to start with, but the tutorial linked above really helped me work it.

Ideas? Questions? support@pokerpupil.com