Meet Potato Battery Games
We build party games that bring people together.
"Minimal friction, maximum fun."
Get people playing in seconds, not minutes. No accounts, no app downloads — just open and play.
Our Games
Pickle Picker
The "Would You Rather" party game. Browse 1000+ questions, generate your own with AI, and discover what your friends really think.
Would you rather...?
Play Now →Chapeau Shuffle
A fishbowl-style word guessing game. Draw words from the hat and get your team to guess — classic party fun!
Yes, "chapeau" means "hat" in French
Visit Site →Under the Hood
For the technically curious
Truly Anonymous Ratings
Vote on questions without an account. We hash your IP with SHA-256 — you can rate, but we never know who you are. Like dropping votes into a secret ballot box.
Your pickle preferences remain your own.
Anti-Spam, Pro-Fun
Click too fast? Your votes decay exponentially with our weight decay algorithm: weight = 0.93^n
But here's the fun part — the UI responds with increasingly wild animations. Confetti at 15 clicks. Fire at 30. Hit zero weight and you get:
"Your clicks are now decorative."
Our Own AI, Our Own Rules
We run Ollama to generate new questions instead of calling external APIs. Why?
- Cost control — fixed infrastructure vs per-token pricing
- Privacy — no spicy questions leaving our servers
- Independence — works even when external APIs are down
All AI questions go through manual moderation before appearing on the site.
Tech Stack
Next.js 15
App Router with React Server Components
PostgreSQL
Drizzle ORM for type-safe queries
TypeScript 5
Strict mode, zero any types
Tailwind CSS 4
CSS-first configuration
Ollama
Self-hosted LLM for question generation
Sentry
Error tracking & performance
What's Next
Our roadmap for world pickle domination
Party Mode
In DevelopmentMultiplayer experience where friends vote together and see results in real time. Expect debates about whether invisibility really is better than flight.
Alexa Voice Skill
Active DevelopmentHands-free Would You Rather for road trips. "Alexa, give me a pickle." Perfect for family dinners and long car rides.
Telegram Bot
PlannedDaily questions in group chats, track statistics, challenge friends asynchronously.
Native Apps
ConsideringiOS and Android — but only if they add real value beyond the web. We're not fans of app store friction.
Build in Public
Follow our journey, warts and all
We Share Everything
We actively share our development process on social media — the wins, the fails, the weird bugs, and the occasional pickle pun. Follow along on Twitter/X @potato_log.
We also follow other indie developers and love connecting with the community. Shoutout to Andi and his awesome YourWebsiteScore project!