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by paulhebert 19 hours ago
I’m continuing to work on my daily word game Tiled Words!

https://tiledwords.com

I checked my analytics recently and over 100 people have 100+ day streaks which kind of blows my mind!

I released custom player puzzles which has been a lot of fun! I’ve gotten dozens of submissions that I’m working through. People are submitting really clever and interesting puzzles. It’s fun to get to solve puzzles I didn’t make myself! There’s more I want to do here (featured puzzles, categories, etc.)

https://tiledwords.com/player-puzzles/page/1

I think I’ve also tracked down an issue that was causing the game to crash on older iPhones. I’m having playtesters run through it now and hope to deploy tomorrow. (Switching some positioning rules from CSS transforms to SVG coordinates)

I recently made some puzzle brainstorming tools using the Datamuse API which have been very helpful for brainstorming words related to a theme.

I’m starting to debate some monetized features. So far everything is free but it would be nice if my wife and I could dedicate more time to this. If I could get a few thousand dollars a month in subscriptions my wife could quit her job and focus more on puzzle creation and improving the game. If you play and have ideas for features you pay for I’d love to hear them!

4 comments

I had shared the game with the wife when I first saw it here on HN. She told me just a couple of days ago that she is still playing it fairly regularly!
That’s awesome, thanks for sharing it!
Nice looking game! From a fellow word game creator :)

I hope you get to dedicate more time to it.

How much does it cost to a month to run currently?

Thanks! I’d love to check out your games if you feel like sharing!

It’s super cheap to run. I pay for analytics and thats basically it. Everything else is hobby level plans.

But it does take a decent chunk of time to make the puzzles. We have a baby at home so time is at a premium.

Pretty close to publishing actually hoping to share on the next showcase thread next month :)

That’s excellent! Hoping you can keep the costs at near zero and hit some nice scale - Good luck!

Awesome, looking forward to it!
Me and my wife play this often, keep up the amazing work from you and your contributors.
That’s awesome, thanks for playing!
Just registered here to say thank you for this game. I really enjoy it since firs HN announcement, recently got my friend hook on as well.
Hey, thanks for playing and sharing! I’m glad you enjoy it!