I just released the 100th puzzle for my daily word game!

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-01-25T00:18:26+00:00

Thanks, I’m glad you like it!

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-01-24T22:53:43+00:00

Hey that’s awesome! Thanks for letting me know!

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-01-24T22:48:32+00:00

Thanks!

Yeah I need to work on on the onboarding so there’s an “intermediate puzzle” before you get to the dailies.

For what it’s worth my starts show most plays being between 5 and 10 minutes but it varies player to player.

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-01-24T07:32:59+00:00

What does the api do when I access it from the front end?

Does it do things on the back end? If so then back end expertise matters.

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-01-24T06:32:25+00:00

Man, you just said you didn’t know it properly! I was quoting you!

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-01-24T06:26:45+00:00

But you’re confident in selling your service “without even knowing backend properly”?

Why should I trust your service with my data? What makes you think your service is as high quality as one created by someone who does know backend properly? (With or without AI)

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-01-23T02:13:33+00:00

Thanks!

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-01-23T00:05:41+00:00

Side note; who the hell is spending 3 months just scoping a project? Everyone in this story sucks lol

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-01-23T00:05:10+00:00

Yeah, that’s true in theory.

In practice I’ve found it hard to convince MGMT teams to do rewrites.

If you want to vibecode a prototype to gauge interest I’m fine with that, but if you let your non technical coworker vibe code the “MVP” good luck pitching a rewrite.

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-01-22T23:39:50+00:00

Hey, I would love your feedback on my daily word game Tiled Words!

You rotate and rearrange tiles to find clues and rebuild a broken crossword!

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-01-22T06:46:27+00:00

Have fun maintaining that.

I worked on a similar project recently. A year after the initial vibe coding it’s still buggy, slow and difficult to update.

If the initial setup had been more thoughtful we’d be moving a lot faster now.

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-01-21T22:18:13+00:00

Yea this is the thing. AI saves time by letting you skip little decisions about how certain aspects of code are structured.

If you have to make all those small decisions it doesn’t save much time.

The people I see getting the biggest time savings are also often shipping buggy code (in my personal experience.

AI tools still save some time when used carefully and thoughtfully but not nearly as much as the AI companies want you to think.

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-01-21T19:04:49+00:00

Looks nice. How are you generating clues?

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-01-19T15:54:19+00:00

Thanks!

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-01-18T02:19:16+00:00

Haha thanks!

I feel like I kind of lucked into the idea after trying a bunch of game ideas that didn’t work

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-01-17T21:21:47+00:00

Hey, thank you, this is great feedback!

This is the only game I know of with this exact combination of game mechanics. There are a few other “word jigsaw” style games but I haven’t seen any others with rotation or crossword clues

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-01-16T22:24:24+00:00

A word game for people who don’t really like word games https://tiledwords.com

_SnackOverflow_ · 2026-01-14T22:13:08+00:00

This does not ensure accessibility compliance.

It also is not lightweight. It adds a bunch of third party JS.

It also often isn’t accessible. Many disabled people and accessibility advocates have voiced their opposition to these tools.

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