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- Resources pages: Add video tab
- Scene Editor page: Support video as background

I'm giving up on manual coding. I'm now using Codex to rewrite several of the libs I had written before. I'm barely reading any of the code being written. Will give a quick look at the whole thing before merging to main, but I'm mostly reading the written specs, not the code.

having Codex/Claude Code help me doing my taxes today. more accurately:
- bookkeeping by categorizing ledger items
- preparing P&L
- preparing balance sheet
it worked. I still have to be involved and knowledgeable, but it did save me time. my books are very simple.

Took serveral days to write this, but it is something I really wanted to do. I've been buidling this Visual Novel engine for almost 2 years. It was really refreshing to write down all the experiences, learnings and design decision. It is very useful for me and other who will work on the project.

All this kind of stuff:

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Have been writing some Japanese emails in the past few days. I have to say that with AI it has become so much easier to manage the formalities like keigo. I had always struggled with it in the past and now I can just write what I want to say and AI convert it to correct format.

Registered for an event last week on Luma. filled the form and there was a checkbox for agreeing to share my info with the event spaker. NowI just got a marketing email from the even speaker hehe. I'll just unsubscribe.

These structural aspects in the Japanese university and job market which me or the hiring platforms can't do much about. To be clear, as a foreign company I can actually fully hire interns from Japan, but as it currently stands with all fees, it is around double my budget.

And I still have not even started filtering for ones that can actually speak English, and most importantly have experience shipping real products, which most interns applicants probably likely don't have.

This was very unusual for me because I was used to those automated SaaS platform from western and Chinese markets where you can get a lot for free or very cheap spending.

This says a lot about it: There is this intentional friction and filter. The quality of the job posts actually goes up because of this. However prices for posting is also high, the pricing usually assumes you will be hiring multiple interns.

I've been comparing several intern hiring platforms for the Japanese market. Mostly required you to submit a form on website, it unlocks a PDF presentation, and you have to do a online video call. Very B2B sales process. Fees are too high.

In order to make up for this, Japanese companies tend to hire multiple part-time rather than a fulltime. But the problem is we know how this plays out for startups. Startups need highly committed intense working individuals.

Japanese students have classes etc... Which let's say take 20h per week, especially for year 1 and year 2 students. This means it is hard for them to engage in a fulltime internship. Working in nights and weekends helps but there is high risk of burnout.

The hourly rate makes internship more comparable to part-time job. Which is not what is supposed to be, internship should put much higher emphasis on the learning and gain real world experience.

Only 3% of Japanese students go through an internship. Internships are normally subject minimum Japanese wage which is around 1200 yen depending on the region. This is actually over my budget.

Been trying to hire Softwre Development Interns from Japan. Below is some of my exeperiences and observations. On paper it is a country with a massive number of high skilled interns I could hire, but in reality there are many structural hurndles. #japan #Internships 🧵

RouteVN Creator - 0.14.0 RouteVN is the dedicated platform exclusively for Visual Novels. Creators can create, publish, and distribute their work while readers can discover and read.

We have just released version 0.14.0 of RouteVN Creator!
routevn.com/creator/chan...
- Resources pages: remove unnecessary tooltip
- Scenes editor: make dialogue character avatar bigger
- Scenes editor: improve validation on various forms
- Scenes editor: remove unnecessary image drag
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Figured I'd share a bit of steam review insight on the horse game server inspired by this 🫡

In summary, it is not a breakthrogh in technology. it was very well executed:
- implemented existing technologies such a memory
- put everything together into 1 product
- made it easy to use, hiding all complexity
- marketing was unique

- it changes it self. it can configure its own config, update its own memory, update skills on demand.
- skills especially, can be used to extend a lot of functionalities while maintaing the OS and fs statefulness similar to Claude Code

- a lot went to make it easy to use and install. making it availble on all chat apps is part of it.
- the memory is implemeted and works. I don't worry too much about the context window, I can just continue

I jumped on the OpenCraw hype. Tried to install it 2 days ago with Discord but failed, didn't properly read the docs. Tried again today, and got it to work after some debugging. Playing it for a bit now some thoughts:
- the waking up is very smart. it personalizees every agent for the user
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Very excited to be collaborating with @bunnibambii.bsky.social on a Visual Novel project.
Can't wait to see the art, story and characters that will be created!
#visualnovel #vn

Team Member Introduction: Nellow Introducing Nellow, a developer at RouteVN. high school student from Nepal passionate about game development.

Did you know that one of the contributors to RouteVN Creator is actually a high school student from Nepal? Read about Nellow and his work on RouteVN!
routevn.com/blog/2026/04...

Building a Visual Novel Engine Part 1 - Route Graphics Route Graphics is a declarative graphics and audio library built on PixiJS and WebAudio API. This is part 1 of a 3-part series on building a visual novel engine. Learn about the design decisions, impl...

New blog post: Building a Visual Novel Engine Part 1 - Route Graphics

A declarative graphics and audio library built on @pixijs.com
and WebAudio API. Learn about the design decisions, implementation challenges, and more!

routevn.com/blog/2026/03...

Thanks for sharing, it was very informative especially on the marketing and financial side of things

Some thoughts about selling visual novels on Steam in 2026 | ebi-hime Get more from ebi-hime on Patreon

wrote some misc thoughts about selling visual novels on steam in 2026 and what sorts of vns tend to sell better than others based on trends i've seen with my last few releases

www.patreon.com/posts/some-t...

Been using the free version of Lark
for few years. Now, they just told me my account will be deleted.
I have some critical services like email and calendar on it. Will take this as an opportunity to move away from it, but will never going to use it again...
www.larksuite.com/hc/en-US/art...

RouteVN Creator - 0.13.0 RouteVN is the dedicated platform exclusively for Visual Novels. Creators can create, publish, and distribute their work while readers can discover and read.

We have just released version 0.13.0 of RouteVN Creator!
- layout editor: fix layout editor cancel button not working when choosing image
- colors page: make color name required
- bundle export: fix so it runs properly
(more in comments)

routevn.com/creator/chan...