Ok Name One
A Jackbox-style party game about making lists.
Play it live →OkNameOne is a browser-based party game in the spirit of Jackbox: one shared screen (the TV or laptop), and everyone else joins from their phone with a room code.
What makes it interesting
The whole experience is realtime — players join, submit answers, and watch results update live and in sync. That means persistent, bidirectional connections between every player and the game room.
Architecture notes
This is intentionally a separate repo and deployment from this website — its needs are different enough that isolating it keeps the static site cheap and safe:
- Realtime layer lives on a purpose-built service (e.g. PartyKit), not on short-lived serverless functions, which can't hold WebSocket connections.
- Game/room state is kept in fast, ephemeral storage; durable data in a small Postgres.
- The Next.js UI can still deploy on Vercel and link back from
/projects/oknameonehere.
The internals are designed in the OkNameOne repo; this page is the case study.