Last 4 months of this bear market I used all spare time that I had next to my job as a software engineer, to build LuckyThunder. The main goal was to learn how to use the lightning network and how to build something ontop of it. My experience has been almost flawless, its great to see the progress it has made the last year. The experience at that time wasn't good, or at least, mine wasn't:)

My experience is that developing on the 2nd layer of bitcoin is much easier than onchain as there is no hassle with key management and fees. I learned that from creating a onchain gamble site (which i'm not gonna shill here) that I made in school. But still I can understand that it can look intimidating, so that is why I wanted to share some resources too:

Here are some resources that helped me learn about LN and build LuckyThunder: First of all, the LND slack: Invite on http://dev.lightning.community very helpful people with lots of experience. Than the lightning makers telegram group: https://medium.com/@TheCarter/announcing-lightning-makers-b7fa9ccdfcb5 fast responses of ppl that really love the LN. At last, the lnd grpc documentation: https://api.lightning.community/

If you need any help, I'm active in the lightning makers telegram group, or you can always reach out on twitter: https://twitter.com/LuckyThunderCom or https://twitter.com/bitcoinbram

About LuckyThunder: LuckyThunder is a slotmachine built on the lightning network where players can play in the browser without logging in, all provably fair and with a high winrate (highest for any LN game afaik).

I would really appreciate feedback on my project as I want to improve it where I can!

https://www.luckythunder.com/