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Posted by HaxleRose 2 days ago

Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site(puzzlelair.com)
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merelysounds 2 days ago|
If you want image nonograms (as opposed to randomized nonograms), you can try Nonoverse[1]; I made it for the same reasons.

[1]: https://lab174.com/nonoverse

lsaferite 1 day ago||
My next vacation project is basically this, but as an offline-capable PWA served from a 100% static site. I don't want to install apps for these types of games and I want them to fully function on my phone when I'm offline.
trizoza 2 days ago||
> Play in dark mode

Only after you create an account? Oh my lord

HaxleRose 2 days 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.
celsoazevedo 2 days ago|||
Why not respect the browser/system's theme? No need for settings or javascript:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/V...

HaxleRose 2 days ago||
good idea. I might switch it to do that instead.
inigyou 2 days ago|||
How do you think it remembers your account? With a cookie
el_io 2 days ago||
It won't even let me play sudoku if I don't sign-in.
juhnu85 2 days ago||
Love the look of the site. I have also grown tired of ads showing up everywhere nowadays. I'd much rather spend a bit of money than be forced to watch through another ad.
HaxleRose 2 days ago|
For sure! I couldn't find an app with a good mobile UI without ads. I would've paid a few bucks for one, so I figured others might feel the same way.
danpalmer 1 day ago||
Where are you sourcing all your puzzles?

I remember the blocker to a Sudoku app I was making in secondary school was just getting good puzzles. They're hard to make, particularly if you're signing up to make a new one every day. I guess you could create them with AI now, but you'd run significant risk of them being uncalibrated for difficulty or just outright invalid.

tgv 1 day ago|
I always thought people generated sudokus with heuristics, e.g. the less numbers remain, the harder it is.
joshdick 1 day ago||
I did the same thing! I was playing nonogram puzzles a lot in an ad-infested iPhone app, got sick of the ads, and replaced it with my own site:

https://karstendick.github.io/nonogram/

athrowaway3z 1 day ago||
I hadn't seen star battle before. Was fun. Wanted to play another medium one so created an account and it opened up the same puzzle, so then i just clicked through what i remembered and now i'm way too high on the leaderboard. I feel like a fraud!
HaxleRose 1 day ago|
oh shoot! I'll look into that. Star Battle is the most recent puzzle game I added and I'm still working out the bugs!
vova_hn2 2 days ago||
By the way, if you are interested in nonograms specifically, there is a great website nonograms.org that has tens of thousands nonograms (both B&W and color) and no ads.
HaxleRose 2 days 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 add nonograms to this site specifically.
notarobot123 1 day ago|
I see this kind of thing as the future of SaaS. Passionate developers out competing incumbents on both quality and price. One off purchases from "1000 true fans" is enough to make the effort worthwhile. It's a win-win for indie devs and their customers.
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