I hadn't seen star battle before. Was fun. Wanted to play another medium one so created an account and it opened up the same puzzle, so then i just clicked through what i remembered and now i'm way too high on the leaderboard. I feel like a fraud!
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
#142I hadn't seen star battle before. Was fun. Wanted to play another medium one so created an account and it opened up the same puzzle, so then i just clicked through what i remembered and now i'm way too high on the leaderboard. I feel like a fraud!
oh shoot! I'll look into that. Star Battle is the most recent puzzle game I added and I'm still working out the bugs!
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#143This 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.)
(Over a decade ago now?) I created https://kardland.com with a couple of solitaire games. No ads or other bullshit.
I had intended to add more solitaire games but moved on to other projects. At the time it was an excuse for me to learn Javascript.
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#144This is great, thank you! I predict agentic coding will change software dramatically in this direction. I recently had my weather app showing me a full-screen video ad. It drove me so mad that I developed wwads in a few hours with claude, Weather Without Ads (or any tracking, etc.), which can be installed as a PWA on Android or iOS. https://jmrk84.github.io/wwads/
nice! good idea! I haven't looked into doing a PWA. I've never built one before, but this puzzle app is built with Ruby on Rails and I know the framework has tools for doing PWAs
Re: Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site
#145This 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.)
(Over a decade ago now?) I created https://kardland.com with a couple of solitaire games. No ads or other bullshit. I had intended to add more solitaire games but moved on to other projects. At the time it was an excuse for me to learn Javascript.
Nice! The first app I built and put is https://peopleneed.love
Just a simple site to let random people encourage other random people. It was a good way for me to learn some of the Ruby on Rails Hotwire tools.
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#146I had the same idea as well! https://puzzleparlour.co.uk/
There are still a couple of bugs to iron out, but people seem to like the original Gravity Words game.
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#147Looks nice but feels severely underbaked. Did a medium soduku puzzle. Made a mistake, so I tried erasing it to get rid of the noise. 0? no. backspace? also no apparently. then I just mashed other number keys to see if the square was responive at all and I failed the puzzle. Why does sodoku need a fail counter in the first place?
Fair criticism. I appreciate the feedback! I thought I made the backspace key work on Sudoku. I'll look into that. I know "E" works for erase. Just checked it and if the incorrect answer is selected, you can press "E" or "delete"/"backspace" and that should clear the incorrect answer. As for the fail counter, it's so that the leaderboards are fair. If someone can just faceroll the keyboard to solve the puzzle quickly, it's not really fair for the leaderboards. But I get it. Sudoku isn't typically really a competitive puzzle and when doing them on paper, you often will erase wrong answers and keep going.
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#148> Create a free account to keep playing. After 3 attempts (all moves were mistakes! maybe I'm too stupid?) asked for my email. Is emails collection the end-goal of this (vibe-coded, I suppose) page?
Nope, I don't care about your email. Just a way for you to track progress, contribute to leaderboards, get achievements, and be able to reset your password if you forget it. The end-goal was originally just for me to have an ad-free place for me to play my favorite puzzle games and I shared it with HN. I do ask for a couple bucks after a solver finishes 25 of every puzzle + difficulty just to help out with server costs. But I don't dream that I'll even break even on this.
I'm a software engineer for my job and just code apps for a fun hobby in my spare time. Pretty much, most every software engineer uses agentic AI coding tools these days. I built this the same way I build software for my job. So it's not some slop codebase with API keys sitting in the HTML :)
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#149Anyone know of a free version of spelling bee?
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#150I did the same thing! I was playing nonogram puzzles a lot in an ad-infested iPhone app, got sick of the ads, and replaced it with my own site: