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

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Post by HaxleRose »

blourvim wrote: post #119
zx8080 wrote: post #117

> 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?

I have been playing nonograms for a year now, there was never insta death, controls are a little off, title is hidden until its solved to avoid spoilers This is obviously programmed by someone who doesn't play nonograms. Safe to assume it was vibe-coded

Thanks for the feedback. I've done nonograms with a three strikes and your out style, so I based it off of that. I just couldn't find any without having to watch ads often before and after playing a puzzle. Good criticism about hiding the title until after it's solved. Someone else mentioned that as well. It's on my list of things to change actually. Like I wrote to the person who you're replying to, it's not some slop web app. I'm a professional software engineer and I coded this the same way I code at work, with agentic AI using Ruby on Rails, following TDD, thin controllers & models, security best practices, ect.

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

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Post by a_c »

jmrko wrote: post #138

This 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/

Indeed. I started coding games/math exercise for my children to make sure they are ads free, and no monetisation shenanigans. I can totally see how it become a new trend.

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

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Post by cwmoore »

HaxleRose wrote: post #147
frisia wrote: post #129

Looks 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…

I am used to 0 and backspace, not too difficult to allow 0 key to clear a cell.

Curious if you could let me know what code or images provide the backgrounds on your Kakuro, is it a CSS diagonal line, or a tile? What comes up if you run a quick:

    find . -name diag.png -type f
Reminds me of mine!

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

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Post by HaxleRose »

cwmoore wrote: post #154
HaxleRose wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I am used to 0 and backspace, not too difficult to allow 0 key to clear a cell. Curious if you could let me know what code or images provide the backgrounds on your Kakuro, is it a CSS diagonal line, or a tile? What comes up if you run a quick: find . -name diag.png -type f Reminds me of mine!

Good to know. Yeah, it's pretty easy to add 0, so I'll do that soon. For the kakuro backgrounds, it's pure CSS, no images. The diagonal split in the clue cells is a single linear-gradient hairline, not a tile or PNG:

.kakuro-clue { background-image: linear-gradient(to top right, transparent calc(50% - 0.5px), rgb(148 163 184) calc(50% - 0.5px), rgb(148 163 184) calc(50% + 0.5px), transparent calc(50% + 0.5px)); }

The site uses Tailwind CSS for the styling generally.

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

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Post by cbxyp »

FailMore wrote: post #83
cbxyp wrote: post #78

I did the same with a few of my favorite casino games (and to save some money) https://roulette.free/ https://blackjack.free/ https://baccarat.free/ little less heady than your site! but i still enjoy to play the games for free lol

Nice, mobile layouts could improve… couldn’t bet in roulette

Ah shoot, thank you for pointing that out! can I ask iOS or Android?
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