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title: "ShawGames (@shawgames) | Hashnode"
description: "Building and scaling ShawGames, one technical lesson at a time with the setbacks while we reach a massive number or requests and a huge bill"
url: "https://hashnode.com/@shawgames"
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@shawgames

# ShawGames

@shawgames · Joined August 2026

Building and scaling ShawGames, one technical lesson at a time with the setbacks while we reach a massive number or requests and a huge bill

### [I built an unblocked games site with 250 games on my own CDN. Here is what broke](https://shawgames.hashnode.dev/250-games-nextjs-cloudflare-r2-cdn-outage?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

How I built ShawGames,unblocked games, with a static Next.js frontend, Cloudflare R2, and a custom CDN, plus the caching outage that broke game assets

10 min read · [shawgames.hashnode.dev](https://shawgames.hashnode.dev/250-games-nextjs-cloudflare-r2-cdn-outage?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

[Aug 2](https://hashnode.com/posts/250-games-nextjs-cloudflare-r2-cdn-outage/6a6f11111b5e35a3c22d87dc)