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Congrats on shipping and selling!

Countering some recurring feedback here: I find the design decisions you’ve made strike a good balance between simplicity and inviting the player in to find their way round. I’m viewing on mobile.

- I can’t easily parse a top-level clue structure but the lack of colours keeps it neat - Guess history would have been useful but omitting it keeps each guess low stakes for a first time user - The keyboard is fine, don’t let the unicode universe in for an ascii input field

n[frozen water]!

I was raised like this and find it heart warming to see funerals filled with wider community.

I did misjudge it once: I was living in a different country with two fellow Irish people and the relative of a good friend died. In Ireland it would have been expected that we attend the funeral, in this case we showed up and there were only six closest relatives there, and our presence just felt inappropriate. I now know your place at a funeral is about your place in a wider community. That often overlaps with being a connection-of-a-connection, but not always.

Resource intensive on the hoster or on the browser running the script?

Is there a repo we can follow for this?

I find the Gervais Principle very illuminating but would love to hear how you turned it into career growth. Did it motivate you to indulge in Machiavellian scheming and join the ranks of the Sociopaths? Or let you make peace with a fate among the Clueless?

Brilliant execution, congrats!

I saw the note on your about page that says "crowdwave was written in a weekend" and I was blown away by the polish for such a short project... and then only afterwards read the post text here that actually it took months and was a rabbit hole. It shows though, well done!

"Open your curtains as soon as you wake up" - I've recently moved to a place where my bedroom window has no curtains and my sleep quality has improved drastically. Lots of other variables, but intuitively it makes sense to me that morning light would help stop the sleep cycle slipping later, thus keeping me reliably ready for sleep at the end of the day.

End users often do want simplicity but face a choice between products all optimised to extract value, which is different from giving them what they want. Sometimes that optimised path is simplicity, especially if it’s a new class of product. The result is delightful but rarely lasts as the market matures.

From a typical starting pool of 100 leads, what percentage respond positively having received (up to) seven emails?

TIL

"Currently, the time zone used within Xinjiang is roughly split along the ethnic divide, with most ethnic Han population in the area following Beijing Time, and most ethnic Uyghur population as well as population of some other ethnics in the area following Xinjiang Time."

I guess we see plenty of other units of measurement get tied up with identity (eg miles and ounces in the UK), shouldn't be surprising that it happens with time zones.