From the First Line of Code to Success: Lessons from an Open Source Project
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Teamcraft is a full web and desktop tool for mapping crafting dependency trees in Final Fantasy XIV, implemented with an Angular + Firebase heavy front end, Electron overlays, Google Cloud services, and Azure/Hasura providing SQL+GraphQL. It parses game packets in read‑only mode to mirror player inventories and auto‑check crafting lists, supports 12 languages via Crowdin, stores about 4.4M lists with ~200M reads/month at roughly €200/month, and runs in production with ~500k monthly active users, ~80 contributors, 950 GitHub stars and 2,500 donors.
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