HaxleRose

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by HaxleRose 4mo ago
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!
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by HaxleRose 4mo ago
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 addres
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by HaxleRose 4mo ago
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
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by HaxleRose 4mo ago
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 th
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by HaxleRose 4mo ago
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?
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by HaxleRose 4mo ago
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.
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by HaxleRose 4mo ago
Haha! That'll be required for your coding agents soon enough sadly.
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by HaxleRose 4mo ago
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
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by HaxleRose 4mo ago
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
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by HaxleRose 4mo ago
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
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by HaxleRose 4mo ago
Haha, yeah, the early puzzles are pretty simple, but they do start to get more variety as you progress through them. I hear ya. Maybe multiples of 5 would've been better. Mainly, I was trying to get a good mobile experience with as big
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by HaxleRose 4mo ago
Oh yeah, I think I've seen it before. I got some inspiration for some of the nonograms that I made from some different sites. Not all of the sites that I've seen have had a great UI, especially on mobile, which is why I wanted to
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by HaxleRose 4mo ago
Hmmm, if it is, I wasn't aware of it. Let me look into my rate-limiting settings that might block something like that.
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by HaxleRose 4mo ago
I hear ya. Fair criticism. I'm a professional developer myself, but not great at design. I've tried to come up with a different looking site best I could. I went with a newspaper theme like back in the day when you'd get the
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by HaxleRose 4mo ago
The nonograms get more difficult as you do them. I actually made the diamond one myself, haha! Not too challenging really. I'm not good with making pixel art, but I probably made half of them by hand and I used Fable 5 to make the rest
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by HaxleRose 4mo ago
Nice! real cool! This site does have monetization, but I give the first 25 puzzles free for each difficulty level. So a good amount of free content and I'm still trying to add more games.
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by HaxleRose 4mo ago
Oh yeah? I'll have to check them out. Good tip!
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by HaxleRose 4mo ago
It doesn't cost me much to run. About $9/month for the VPS + domain and I run other apps on the same VPS. Just my little hobby server. It does have monetization though, but I give the first 25 puzzles of each type + difficulty for
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Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site(puzzlelair.com)
251 points by HaxleRose 4mo ago|167 comments
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by HaxleRose 4mo ago
Interesting! With this one, I built it pitch by pitch until full games would come out and just had to tweak it a lot to get it realistic. I wouldn't know where to begin with basketball!
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Show HN: Pitch-by-pitch baseball simulation app to simulate games and seasons(baseball.chesterton.tech)
3 points by HaxleRose 4mo ago|3 comments
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by HaxleRose 4mo ago
Got tired of sitting through ads to play puzzle games (my favorites are Killer Sudoku and Calcudoku), so I built my own site to play them on. I'm trying to get a huge collection of a variety of games all with a clean, mobile-friendly U