Marketyour.games runs creator search on C, CGI and a SQLite file

Marketyour.games helps indie game developers find creators to contact, running on OpenBSD, SQLite and a single CGI binary instead of a conventional web framework.

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Primary source: Corey Prophitt

Why it matters

Prophitt's creator-search service shows how a solo developer can keep deployment and infrastructure small while selling a narrowly defined workflow. Its custom CGI utilities also make the tradeoff clear: fewer frameworks mean more web plumbing the founder must own.

Corey Prophitt built a creator-search business on C and CGI — Marketyour.games helps indie game developers find creators to contact, running on OpenBSD, SQLite and a single CGI binary instead of a conventional web framework.

Corey Prophitt built marketyour.games, a paid creator-search service for indie game developers, with C, OpenBSD, SQLite and CGI - a request-handling model many web teams left behind years ago. In an essay published October 12th, he describes a working commercial product whose search dashboard, accounts, folders, payments and email run without a JavaScript requirement.…

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