BloxStack has pivoted. Here's the whole story.

TL;DR — We started as the first serious attempt at AI-driven Roblox game development, built on Roblox TypeScript. The tech worked. The models weren't ready. So we pivoted, and BloxStack is now a talent hub, a forum, a marketplace, and a place to build a reputation that actually belongs to you. 407 founder badges are live for initial waitlist members. And I need your help wording something.

Where this started

We went all in on the ecosystem around Roblox TypeScript, which is one of the most genuinely interesting pieces of tooling in this space and still underrated.

If you haven't used it: it's the same class of tech that compiles TypeScript into JavaScript, except it targets Luau. You get the entire TypeScript toolchain, and more importantly you get a compiler that catches your errors before runtime instead of after.

The bet was that frontier AI models would understand TypeScript far better than they'd ever understand something as niche as Roblox Lua. And that bet was right. It worked better than I expected.

It just wasn't enough. The models weren't good enough yet, and the main ingredient was still missing. I still think this is probably the path to professional-grade AI game development eventually. It just isn't today.

Text-to-game, as a whole concept, turns out to be dense.

Why I care about this at all

I started my own development journey on Roblox as a kid. That's the entire validation I needed for this idea.

Roblox is quite literally a talent factory.

But I always felt restricted by how complex some of this gets. I've built everything from throwaway prototypes to a 90% finished, genuinely cohesive game that I never shipped, because of some constraint or bureaucracy or another. Something that had nothing to do with whether the game was good.

BloxStack was always meant to solve that. I've been turning the idea over for years without knowing what shape it should take.

BloxStack has pivoted

It's now a social platform, and I'm honestly still working out how to describe it in one sentence.

• A talent hub. Get hired, or hire, with real contractual terms
• A forum. Like the Roblox developer forums, but better
• A marketplace. Post your assets and sell them for Robux or real USD
• A reputation layer. Portfolio, vouches, endorsements, closed deals

Sign in with Roblox and it's provably you. Everything you earn attaches to that identity instead of to a server you can lose access to.

Founder badges are live

If you were on the waitlist, you can now link your Roblox account and turn that into something real.

There are 407 founder badges. That's all there will ever be. Yours is numbered by where you sat on the list, and it's permanent.

We're still in beta, and still care about tooling

Being clear about that. This side of BloxStack is what's live right now.

We haven't abandoned the developer tooling side at all. We're planning to support a range of open-source foundational projects, and I'm genuinely excited to say more about that once this side is settled.

The thing I actually need from you

I've been describing BloxStack four different ways in this post, which should tell you I haven't nailed it.

If you had to explain what this is in one sentence, what would you say?

Genuinely asking. The people who'd use it are better at naming it than I am, and I'd rather get told I'm wrong now than after it's printed on everything.

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