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Dota 2 Stat

Dota 2 Stat, an Electron desktop utility for macOS and Windows that shows Dota 2 server status, adapted from my WoW Stat app.

BPM
151
GRADE
C
LEVEL
6
RELEASES
0
YEARS
2016–2017

Find And Replace, Mostly

Six days after the Pokemon backend, I cloned my WoW Stat app and pointed it at Dota 2. Dota 2 Stat, appId at.dota2st, signed as Devin Smith, built as a dmg and for the Mac App Store on macOS and as an NSIS installer on Windows. I rewrote all the plumbing but not the description, so it still introduced itself as a World of Warcraft server monitor.

Electron was still pretty new in 2016 and shipping a signed desktop app with it felt like a fun trick, so I kept reusing the same shell for whatever server I wanted to watch. I opened this one up now and then until April 2017.

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