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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 IsTom » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 4:33 PM UTC

lschueller wrote: post #42

> Create a free account to keep playing. Sign up or log in to create an account, save your progress, and continue this difficulty. And here we are again. A nice idea, ai generated, for grabbing email addresses... Not even trying to give it a human touch. Is this the new spam? Hundreds of sites and web apps forcing you to sign up with a temp email address for no good reason?

So "no ads, no subscription" on its front page is a lie? I am shocked, so very shocked.

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

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Post by HaxleRose » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 4:39 PM UTC

lschueller wrote: post #42

> Create a free account to keep playing. Sign up or log in to create an account, save your progress, and continue this difficulty. And here we are again. A nice idea, ai generated, for grabbing email addresses... Not even trying to give it a human touch. Is this the new spam? Hundreds of sites and web apps forcing you to sign up with a temp email address for no good reason?

I don't have any need for your email address. You could put "foo@bar.com" in there if you want. The account is for tracking progress and eventually there is a paywall. I give 25 puzzles for free for every puzzle type + every difficulty, but after that, you pay a couple bucks to unlock the rest of the puzzles. Helps pay the server fees. Although I've made $0 so far and that's fine really. This is mostly just a fun little site for people to use.

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

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Post by SyneRyder » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 4:42 PM UTC

HaxleRose wrote: post #31

inigyou wrote: post #19

Are you blocking Tor?

Checked on it and I'm not blocking Tor. Are you getting issues? Maybe it's not handling the boost in traffic from this post

Not behind Tor here, but I just got a "406 Not Acceptable" with "Your browser is not supported". I'm running Firefox here, but on an older machine with an ESR v115 release. Does your site use particular functionality not supported in older Firefox?

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

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Post by HaxleRose » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 4:42 PM UTC

IsTom wrote: post #51

lschueller wrote: post #42

> Create a free account to keep playing. Sign up or log in to create an account, save your progress, and continue this difficulty. And here we are again. A nice idea, ai generated, for grabbing email addresses... Not even trying to give it a human touch. Is this the new spam? Hundreds of sites and web apps forcing you to sign up with a temp email address for no good reason?

So "no ads, no subscription" on its front page is a lie? I am shocked, so very shocked.

No it's not a lie. It doesn't have ads or a subscription. You do need to login to continue playing more of the same type + difficulty for puzzles. There is an eventual paywall after you reach 25 puzzles + difficulty (so like after you've done 25 easy sudoku puzzles and you want to do more easy ones) for a couple bucks to help offset server costs. But it's a one-time thing. No monthly subscription at all. In all transparency, I've made $0 so far. No one has even reached the 25 free puzzle limit for any of the puzzles on there.

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

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Post by HaxleRose » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 4:43 PM UTC

chadgpt3 wrote: post #46

lschueller wrote: post #42

> Create a free account to keep playing. Sign up or log in to create an account, save your progress, and continue this difficulty. And here we are again. A nice idea, ai generated, for grabbing email addresses... Not even trying to give it a human touch. Is this the new spam? Hundreds of sites and web apps forcing you to sign up with a temp email address for no good reason?

Should've asked for a photo ID!

Haha! That'll be required for your coding agents soon enough sadly.

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

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Post by HaxleRose » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 4:45 PM UTC

trizoza wrote: post #50

> Play in dark mode Only after you create an account? Oh my lord

Not good? I'm not opposed to that. I just needed a place to put it and in the account settings seemed natural. Then there's no cookies or anything. The setting is just stored in the database.

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

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Post by HaxleRose » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 4:46 PM UTC

SpyCoder77 wrote: post #36

The homepage is a little overwhelming, other than that cool site

Good feedback. I've struggled with it honestly. Trying to make a good user experience, but it's tricky with 10 puzzles types and more coming. Is it the amount of puzzles that feels that way?

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

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Post by HaxleRose » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 4:48 PM UTC

WolfeReader wrote: post #43

The "Hard" big diamond nonogram was not hard at all. Are you vibe-coding these?

The AI generated nonograms are actually better. I made the diamond myself sadly. They do get harder as you progress through them. I'm not good at pixel art, so I started with simple things like diamond and heart, but you're not the first to mention it, so I should've probably left those out.

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

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Post by HaxleRose » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 4:50 PM UTC

insane_dreamer wrote: post #34

Nice! A few word games would be cool: scrabble, boggle, etc.

Good feedback! I've built a wordle clone in the past (back when I had to write it all by hand!). Right now, I'm focused on logic puzzles and there are dozens more I'd like to add, but word puzzles may be coming at some point in the future. I had thought of them, but there's just so many different puzzles I want to put on there!

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

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Post by HaxleRose » Mon, Jun 22, 2026, 4:54 PM UTC

ori_b wrote: post #39

I took a quick look at the source: // Fire view events (e.g. unlock_prompt_viewed) for any monetization prompt // present in the freshly loaded page. data-analytics-view-events is a JSON // array so one rendered prompt can report several events at once. What's a monetization prompt?

It's referring to the fact that after you complete 25 puzzles of a specific difficulty, it'll prompt you to unlock all the puzzles for a couple bucks. Helps offset server costs to run the site. So the comment in the code is addressing if a user has viewed that prompt or not. So not a "prompt" in the LLM sense.