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Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site

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Re: Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site

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How do you plan to keep it free from ads? I see it has accounts, if it was completely client side, it could have been forever free.

It doesn't cost me much to run. About $9/month for the VPS + domain and I run other apps on the same VPS. Just my little hobby server. It does have monetization though, but I give the first 25 puzzles of each type + difficulty for free and then you pay a few bucks to unlock the rest. Maybe I'm being too generous, but it's not a big deal really.

Re: Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site

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This is nice! Readers may also enjoy Simon Tatham's puzzle collection, available for mobile as well: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ (My favorite currently is Dominosa. Playing the Hard mode is teaching me new patterns.)

Mine is currently Net, 7x7 grid with wrapping variant. I take about 5 minutes on average to solve a level, which is the sweet spot for me

Re: Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site

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Nice job! I made something similar, mostly for myself: https://www.vexling.com Plan to keep it forever free :)

Nice! real cool! This site does have monetization, but I give the first 25 puzzles free for each difficulty level. So a good amount of free content and I'm still trying to add more games.
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