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Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by chaabani »

I made a programming puzzle game that got overwhelmingly positive reviews by the very few people who downloaded it: 42 five-star reviews over 45 total.

I think that anyone who likes hard puzzles and spending many hours/days to solve some levels will enjoy it.

Also, if one happens to be a programmer that struggles with recursion, I think the game might help with that regard, but being a programmer is not a requirement to play.

Website: https://www.kidori.com/games/recursive/

Appstore: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1550504475

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by tmountain »

Yahivin wrote: post #162

Civet: a new programming language that transpiles to TypeScript. Some have called it the ghost of CoffeeScript. I think it should do a lot better on HN now that it has a better website with tons of examples. https://civet.dev

Really clean! Looks awesome!

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by jorf »

https://store.steampowered.com/app/656280/Fractus/

Simple arcade-style game. I ran out of steam developing this. The gameplay and UI need work, but I thought the graphics were interesting. All the units are rendered as Mandelbrot and Julia sets on the GPU. Parameters are varied in real time to make the fractals look like they are moving and swimming. Another fun thing is the audio effects were made with an electric guitar. Thanks for reading :D

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by jason_zig »

pigcat wrote: post #92
jason_zig wrote: post #25

https://www.zigpoll.com I don't think I made it clear the last couple of submits that it's a purely solo effort which upon reflection is one of the more interesting things about it!

Nicely designed site! Some unsolicited feedback/idea: I like the examples page but it's a few too many clicks away for the average internet attention span. Could you have a couple interactive examples directly in the hero on the front page? With a button to see "More examples". I'm imagining something like how https://tailwindui.com/ presents their front page.

Thanks for the feedback! I agree the examples page is dated and, aside from the examples actually not being that useful, the list is too long and too far away. I'll update it soon and will definitely use that example as inspo!

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by drekipus »

chaabani wrote: post #271

I made a programming puzzle game that got overwhelmingly positive reviews by the very few people who downloaded it: 42 five-star reviews over 45 total. I think that anyone who likes hard puzzles and spending many hours/days to solve some levels will enjoy it. Also, if one happens to be a programmer that struggles with recursion, I think the game might help with that regard, but being a programmer is not a requirement…

I only have android -- and from memory, android users are more into games..

Could you upload a "let's play" somewhere? it sounds interesting.

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by LouisSayers »

monological wrote: post #231

https://prodbump.com/ - sell digital products, memberships and more in less than one minute. You keep 99% of sales after payment processing fees. No monthly fees either.

Cool idea, took a minute for me to realise though why the video on the homepage was paused (it is a bit awkward when viewing on a large 4k screen).

How do you plan to capture the 1% fee? Is the idea that you'd charge their card at the start of the next billing cycle?

I imagine it might get a little tricky if you also help deal with refunds.

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by deevus »

chaabani wrote: post #271

I made a programming puzzle game that got overwhelmingly positive reviews by the very few people who downloaded it: 42 five-star reviews over 45 total. I think that anyone who likes hard puzzles and spending many hours/days to solve some levels will enjoy it. Also, if one happens to be a programmer that struggles with recursion, I think the game might help with that regard, but being a programmer is not a requirement…

Your website could really do with some screenshots or a video of the gameplay, regardless of how simple the graphics might be. The AppStore listing is better in that regard, with screenshots for every device that is supported.

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by chaabani »

deevus wrote: post #278
chaabani wrote: post #271

I made a programming puzzle game that got overwhelmingly positive reviews by the very few people who downloaded it: 42 five-star reviews over 45 total. I think that anyone who likes hard puzzles and spending many hours/days to solve some levels will enjoy it. Also, if one happens to be a programmer that struggles with recursion, I think the game might help with that regard, but being a programmer is not a requirement…

Your website could really do with some screenshots or a video of the gameplay, regardless of how simple the graphics might be. The AppStore listing is better in that regard, with screenshots for every device that is supported.

Thanks, I will try to improve the website.

It rarely gets any traffic and almost all my downloads come from the App Store itself. But adding some screenshots doesn't hurt.

Re: Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

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Post by austincassidy »

kbyatnal wrote: post #195
joenot443 wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is awesome! I'll be using it for sure. Where'd you get your curated list of forums? Big search of running VBulletin instances? :)

that among others! a lot of manual work + some automated scraping (there's about ~3000 forums in the index today)

Love the site. Really great work with it. I had an idea for a similar site, but instead it would essentially be like Pinterest in which you indicate your interests/hobbies and it shows you forums related to those. There's dozens of small forums that I discovered off the 2nd/3rd/4th page of Google results that are super helpful - but hard to find.

How did you go about finding the ~3000 forums? That's my main hurdle with the idea.

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