Building Alloverse in the open is the most exciting job we’ve ever had. Turning it into a commercial venture, however, was perhaps a few years too early — as the rest of the market has also found out. We’re very grateful to Icebreaker and others chipping in funding to get us this far, but alas,...

In this blog post, we’re gonna be talking about server onboarding on discord, as well as details on how we at Alloverse designed and implemented our own bot for the purpose. Finally, we’ll go into detail how you can access our bot’s source code so you can adjust it for your own use case. Long...

In part 1, you got an intro and team retrospective of the “retro arcade” hack week project, where the whole team banded up and built a fun project together that really put Alloverse to the test. In part 2, you got an architecture overview, explaining the components involved in bringing a SNES emulator into a...

Hi everyone! Alloverse PM Tobes here with another update on how we do open source product development. This time I’ll be taking a closer look at the GitHub Projects beta and share some of my thoughts on it. Let’s go! First off; readers of Nevyn’s latest post will recall this illustration regarding project tracking tools:...

Community is the backbone of any successful open source project. However, growing a community from zero is not easy. There’s over 7 billion people in the world, so how do we best reach the ones that share your values? Social media can be great, but at the same time, algorithms can be moody and the...

When we incorporated Alloverse a bit over two years ago, we figured that in addition to developing the platform, we would also attempt to rent it out as a virtual meeting platform for businesses as a way to (partly) finance operations. As it turns out, however, there are a lot of virtual collaboration tools out...