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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 shagie »

neogodless wrote: post #28
doodpants wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because there's already another 6 on the same main diagonal. This is an "X Sudoku" puzzle, which means that each main diagonal must have all 9 different numbers.

All I've never done the diagonals before... oops. https://imgur.com/a/Dfxf9CJ (before picking 2 / 6 / 7.)

https://www.sudokuwiki.org/sudokux.aspx is a useful site. I'm personally a fan of the killer variety.

Its solver is interesting in showing the individual steps.

For the same puzzle, https://www.sudokuwiki.org/sudokux.aspx?bd=06039000804900150...

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

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Post by HaxleRose »

yunruse wrote: post #35

Nice! I wanted to share a link to Ripple Effect Hard with my time (23:47), but it seems the URL only captures attempts, so there's no real way to link to the puzzle itself. Might be useful to - add a wordle-style 'SHARE' button, and/or - make the canonical URL that of the puzzle (and only the attempt on completing/abandoning it)

Good feedback. I hadn't gotten to sharing puzzles yet and hadn't really thought of that. I'll have to look into it. Thanks!

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

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Post by HaxleRose »

furyofantares wrote: post #40

Looks great. FYI, Claude has idunno, maybe 20-30 different strongly themed websites it knows how to make, and this newspaper aesthetic is one of them, and all the sites it does this way look exactly the same. It's a good aesthetic for your site, and I thought it was a good one for one of my sites. But eventually I redesigned my site significantly when I saw that it's gonna be common among vibed-up website designs and…

Yep, I feel ya. Good feedback. This is like version 3 of the home page. The first two looked very typical AI. I thought maybe a newspaper vibe might be cool as a throwback to the puzzles you'd do in the paper. But it does have some of those cookie cutter AI tells. I'm a software engineer by trade and not much of a designer honestly. This probably won't be the final form of the home page, I'd imagine.

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

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Post by bluehatbrit »

HaxleRose wrote: post #54
IsTom wrote: post #51

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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 trans…

I think the messaging is just a bit confusing. You've said this had no ads and no subscription, and then people see you want them to create an account. If there's no money being paid, and no ads then the next conclusion is either you'll sell data or rug-pull later on. Clearly that isn't actually your intention.

Maybe try changing how you talk about the price a bit on the page. No one's going to be put off by knowing there's a lot of free content, and then later on you have a one-off fee to continue playing. But they will be put off if they don't understand how any of the pricing works, and if they feel like there's a catch you're not telling them about.

I get what you're trying to do, you want to offer something on the cheap and that's great. Just be open about when the payment is needed, and what that payment is. You'll likely get more sign ups from being open about it up front.

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

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Post by HaxleRose »

bluehatbrit wrote: post #64
HaxleRose wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 trans…

I think the messaging is just a bit confusing. You've said this had no ads and no subscription, and then people see you want them to create an account. If there's no money being paid, and no ads then the next conclusion is either you'll sell data or rug-pull later on. Clearly that isn't actually your intention. Maybe try changing how you talk about the price a bit on the page. No one's going to be put off by knowing…

Thanks for your thoughts. I completely agree. Let me think of how I can incorporate that into the site's wording. I do want to be completely up front.

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

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Post by HaxleRose »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #17
pred_ wrote: post #14

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I mean the front page is full of LLM smells, so presumably the games are made that way too. And that's fair; this whole thing could be one-shot with any of the leading models.

I one shot games every now and then, just to see how much it can do. For anyone wanting to experiment, I have come to learn that if you make it make browser games the setup is even easier since it can just inject the JS into the HTML and import from a popular CDN, no node, no compilers needed, just a single HTML page with inline JS.

I do the same with new models.

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

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Post by furyofantares »

HaxleRose wrote: post #63
furyofantares wrote: post #40

Looks great. FYI, Claude has idunno, maybe 20-30 different strongly themed websites it knows how to make, and this newspaper aesthetic is one of them, and all the sites it does this way look exactly the same. It's a good aesthetic for your site, and I thought it was a good one for one of my sites. But eventually I redesigned my site significantly when I saw that it's gonna be common among vibed-up website designs and…

Yep, I feel ya. Good feedback. This is like version 3 of the home page. The first two looked very typical AI. I thought maybe a newspaper vibe might be cool as a throwback to the puzzles you'd do in the paper. But it does have some of those cookie cutter AI tells. I'm a software engineer by trade and not much of a designer honestly. This probably won't be the final form of the home page, I'd imagine.

I mean, it does look cool. Felt unique when I had landed on it. But then I saw another site that looked identical to mine and I moved on.

I'm the same as you, not much of a designer, I was kind of elated when I got some good, themed, opinionated designs for some of my sites that felt like it was coming out of a collaborative brainstorming session, and matched the vibe I wanted. And then let down when I worked out there's only a limited number of things I can get the LLM to express, and it's gonna be similar for others.

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

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Post by insane_dreamer »

HaxleRose wrote: post #59
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!

awesome. def need levels of difficulty for word puzzles against the AI; would be impossible to win otherwise :)

along those lines, you know what might be interesting is to have OSS models, including old ones, and select the model to play against (a bit like stockfish has different algos you can play chess against). This substitutes for levels of difficulty (assuming the old/small OSS models are worse, though when it comes to scrabble they might be just as good as any human in which case you would have to introduce some noise to degrade their performance

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

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Post by dang »

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?

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