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Wait how is "The URL is the app" LLM-speak? Genuine question, sounded fine to me when I read it, not sure what a better way to phrase it would be

I agree. I don't feel comfortable giving AI access to my entire computer or phone...not sure that will ever change. Seeing people give that access to agents without any sort of sandboxing blows my mind.

The idea of having an AI assistant help you with all aspects of life is cool and futuristic, but idk, I'm still just out here using a chatbot interface and doing fine.

This is why I like to come up with my own solution(s) for a problem first, and then ask AI what it recommends to see if we match up. Makes it a fun exercise, and usually ends up helping creating one ideal, combined idea.

Does it automatically pull your result from e.g. Wordle right after you finish? How does that work? Or do you have to paste your result into a chat for it to understand it?

Btw small detail not a huge deal but every time I reload /games with f5 there's a noticeable layout shift where the header/search bar is missing and the game tiles are really large for a second.

Cool idea but as some others have said the website was running quite slow for me. I noticed it at first when hovering over the 'enter' button (so before even loading the pond) because the hover animation on the button kicked in really late feeling.

Then actually entering took a few seconds and it was quite laggy looking at all the fish.

Once those things are fixed I think the idea is neat. It would be cool to be able to interact with the pond in some way (click lily pads, drop food in the water, click the water to make it splash) but that might not be what you're going for with this

Sometimes I'll do something similar and go back to old streets I used to live on, or the street I current live on but look at it in the past. Google Maps is a cool time capsule

I feel like we'd be better off if we just stopped at chatbots...why are we so eager to make the internet even more botted

> I'm not sure why anybody would generate UUIDs in browsers though, it seems to defeat the purpose.

How about for offline-first apps?

Nice game. My results for the day:

The hedge fund one really got me.

The sounds fit nicely but a way to turn them off quickly from the menu could be nice. I couldn't find an option for that. Not a big deal though.

How'd you design the site btw? Looks good!

I mean isn't that what show HN is for? Plus wasn't just hype, I was generally interested in getting more info on the SEO side of this project.

I've had a lot of nice people try out my own projects and leave comments in the past and it meant a lot to me so I'm just trying to pass that forward.

Nice and simple. Might just be me but a way to move groups of tiles on the board could be helpful, I accidentally started building too low down and had to move everything at one point.

Interesting idea. Since it costs (at the moment) less than a dollar to post a message, does that still work well with Stripe?

I'm always a bit worried about making super low priced services myself with Stripe, mainly cause I've heard that's a common target for credit card testing fraud, but interested to hear your thoughts.

Great idea man, must be pulling in some good SEO traffic as well.

Really cool. Makes me excited to see other uses for smart glasses in the future.

That's really neat. I think it would be a lot more popular if there were more locations we could draw on, but I get why it takes time to add new ones.

Makes me wonder if something similar to this exists but just more of a "draw all over the globe" type of thing. No street view, just satellite view

Right after running the software and seeing your own name pop up:

:-O

Wow really nicely built site and great story behind it.

I'd imagine you didn't just publish it in 2017 and magically start gaining traffic. Any good marketing tips learned along the way? It must've been tough at first since this type of game seems to get more fun the more players you have.

Anywhere I could read more about how you got your first users and such? I'm about to launch another one of my own web projects and marketing is always the toughest part.

This is a cool idea, I think I'll do the same thing for my own project once it's released. Great way to show all the small improvements our brains find when we spend enough time staring at something.

I first read this blog post about a year ago I think. It was a bit after I started developing my own personal productivity app. It got me really excited because my philosophy is extremely similar, and it seems to resonate with people.

I'm still working on the app today but planning to get it out into the world in the new year. I think anyone who enjoys this notepad technique will find it quite familiar but just "powered up" maybe.

Good game! Nice little touches on the website too like the tray at the bottom and the header click easter egg.

No clue what this is actually about but the drawing collaboration is cool

Nice idea, Expo looks neat too. You designed the website and apps with it?

Mind blowing

This is funny because a while back I was looking at all of my Mario games on the Switch and noticed that, of them all, only 1 title had a different color scheme for the word Mario. I thought that was really interesting, but never looked into the other game titles. Thanks for going to the next level.

Quick fun. Not sure if this was a bug though:

I got to the O'Neill Cylinder stage and then stopped playing for a bit (closed the tab). Came back today and played some more, and when I bought another cylinder, the "buy an online ad" option for selling games came back under executive decisions.

This is awesome. Super fun, love the look.

One thing: I wish there was a way to quickly reset to the top of a chairlift (map maybe?) or set a session and easily teleport back to it.

Reason is, I took the sunshine chair (I think its called that, the one on the right) and then went super far right into the trees cause I was curious if anything was over there, but the trees are super tight so when trying to go back, I keep hitting them and falling, and it's a bit tedious.

Thanks :D

Hey, thanks for reporting. I could fix this by giving Mathic its own manifest.json file, but I'm a bit hesitant.

I'm hoping to build Worchle into a home for a variety of search-style games, so having the PWA open to the home page (which displays navigation links for all the puzzles currently on the site) has the benefit of helping those other puzzles (and the overall brand) get discovered.

It's a hard decision though as I do see the benefit of players being able to add specific games to their homescreen.

Another problem with separate manifests for games: since I'm using local storage for stats, multiple installs of different games on the site would also split up those stats. One install ensures all stats are kept together in a single homescreen bookmark.

Honestly though, I've been thinking about your comment for the past couple of days and I still don't know what the best decision is. It's a tough one.

That is fantastic to hear :)

Thanks for checking out the update and getting back to me. That's very odd — the only way the Magic Number should get into the 20s (on addition mode at least) is if you have longer equations enabled in the settings.

Glad it's not happening anymore, but I'll look into it, thanks for reporting.