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

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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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.

ed_ 1 day ago||

I had the same idea as well! https://puzzleparlour.co.uk/

There are still a couple of bugs to iron out, but people seem to like the original Gravity Words game.

cochleari_major 2 days ago||

I'll plug a little page that I (well, Claude) put together for bite-sized 4x4 Sudoku puzzles mixing popular variant constraints: https://yakymp.github.io/sudoku4x4/

HlessClaudesman 2 days ago||

Why ask for an account / sign up at all?

bluecoconut 2 days ago||

For those who like these types of puzzles, i made a benchmark called pencil puzzle bench

Testing AI model's ability to solve puzzles like these. https://ppbench.com/

Can play the puzzles and compare your timing and accuracy to many AI models on the leaderboards

_doctor_love 2 days ago||

You know if this site gets popular and takes off, you could probably monetize it...with ads

HaxleRose 2 days ago|

haha! no thanks :) I play it myself because it doesn't have ads and cause it has multiple puzzles that I like. It is monetized though. You get the first 25 puzzles for free in every puzzle type + difficulty, then you can pay a few bucks to unlock all of the rest. But this site has made $0 so far. It may never make anything, but at least I'll still have a place to play the puzzles :)

sebasv_ 2 days ago||

Really cool! I went through the same frustration with multiplayer games so I built https://parlor.vqi.io

No monetization of any kind other than a slightly hidden donate button.

ne11nn 23 hours ago||

this is great! i can't believe there aren't more of these. does anyone have any suggestions for mobile versions that can be played offline?

smiles4miles 1 day ago||

Love it! My only feedback is the many-squared puzzles are hard to play on a phone without a stylus (accidental misclicks are challenging with the small box size)

WolfeReader 2 days ago|

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

HaxleRose 2 days 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 the first to mention it, so I should've probably left those out.

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