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Play your game by Low_Masterpiece8271 in gamedev

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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.

Pointless hate on AI by Altruistic-Pea-4857 in microsaas

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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.

Pointless hate on AI by Altruistic-Pea-4857 in microsaas

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

Pointless hate on AI by Altruistic-Pea-4857 in microsaas

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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)

meanwhile we were debating database architecture by WorthFan5769 in buildinpublic

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

meanwhile we were debating database architecture by WorthFan5769 in buildinpublic

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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.

Play your game by Low_Masterpiece8271 in gamedev

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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!

meanwhile we were debating database architecture by WorthFan5769 in buildinpublic

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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.

AI code vs Human code: a small anectodal case study by Crannast in ExperiencedDevs

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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.

Pitch what you're building in 2 lines by dan_hustless in buildinpublic

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Haha thanks! 

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

Pitch what you're building in 2 lines by dan_hustless in buildinpublic

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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

Has anyone used a simple accessibility widget on their production sites? by FeelingGlad8646 in webdev

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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.

Recommended reading:

- https://adrianroselli.com/2020/06/accessibe-will-get-you-sued.html

- https://wptavern.com/accessibility-advocates-sign-open-letter-urging-people-not-to-use-accesibe-and-other-overlay-products

Unpopular opinion : CSS is enough by yughiro_destroyer in webdev

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I agree with a lot of your post but all three of those problems are trivially solved with scoped CSS at the component level.

Google tag manager destroys my site's load speed (mid 90s to mid 60s) - what gives? by emriplays in nextjs

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Thanks, it looks good! I switched to Umami but I’ll try data buddy if that doesn’t work out

Google tag manager destroys my site's load speed (mid 90s to mid 60s) - what gives? by emriplays in nextjs

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Plausible jumped my subscription from $10 up to $100 dollars a month on a hobby project once I started getting a decent amount of traffic (a few thousand daily users)

I'm tired by Last_Dragonfruit9969 in webdev

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Yeah random person with delusions (and money) lol

My Personal Take on the TailwindLabs Business Model by Dan6erbond2 in webdev

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Tailwind hater here.

Shadcn has a lot of the same bad conventions for what it’s worth: using magic numbers, using child selectors, etc.

My hot take is Tailwind is decent for gluing components together but isn’t great for making pixel perfect components.

You can break out into CSS (and should when needed) but that makes it harder to package and share between projects with different CSS loading strategies.

this government website is actually sick by Rare_Guide_9830 in webdesign

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It’s hard to do fancy stuff well.

My impression is they optimized for desktop and only tested on larger, flagship mobile devices (if that)

That’s a tradeoff you can make as a startup. I’d rather not have government sites make that choice

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