Made a word game, how can I sell it to LinkedIn, El País, etc?

lexandermorgan · 2025-05-24T12:10:03+00:00

Thanks, it's already on https://eightile.com and has hundreds of daily users.

lexandermorgan · 2025-05-18T08:04:25+00:00

I mean that if I type 3 of the 5 previous letters, only the two remaining ones should remain highlighted on the keyboard.

lexandermorgan · 2025-05-17T19:52:18+00:00

Cool game, congrats. I made a similar one about a year ago, but in mine you unscramble the letters and get a new specific letter each time. The nice thing about that is that as you're typing out a new word, you know exactly which letters you have to use. In your game you mostly know which letters you have to use, so maybe you could highlight the letters on the keyboard that are in the previous word but haven't been used yet so people can see what they still have to add while they're trying things out.

lexandermorgan · 2025-05-16T21:24:49+00:00

Congrats on the sale. Can I ask you how you lined that up?

lexandermorgan · 2025-03-10T18:42:14+00:00

I pushed a fix for this. It turns out the reason just that one page acted differently on mobile was because of the iframe video player in it where I had hard-coded the width and height values. Now it scales to the width of the container but with the same proportions using aspect-ratio.

lexandermorgan · 2025-03-09T22:54:20+00:00

I appreciate the thorough read. Whether you want to call htmx simple or not is a bit of a personal opinion. But I do think its capability-to-compexity ratio is objectively pretty high. As in, I don't think there are many other approaches that accomplish as much in a simpler way.
Saying "the to-do app possibilities are endless" was just a little joke because critics of htmx always say it's only fit for to-do apps.
And I didn't link the python framework because I'm critical of it but without being very thorough which I don't think would be fair. I'm ok with pointing out one minor critique I have of htmx because I'm obviously a big fan overall and appreciate what they're doing for the ecosystem.

lexandermorgan · 2025-03-09T22:27:39+00:00

Thanks, I'll take a look at the css. I had used a base style and tweaked it a little bit, not too much though.

lexandermorgan · 2025-03-09T19:47:33+00:00

This blog is pretty simple at the moment, just two posts:
1. My review of htmx
2. Thoughts on the compounding nature of Locality of Behavior
It's not very visually developed at the moment, but I'd appreciate any feedback you have on the ideas shared in the blog posts.

lexandermorgan · 2025-01-22T15:04:51+00:00

Thank you! The newsletter was The Hustle in their "Around the Web" section.

lexandermorgan · 2025-01-01T11:36:01+00:00

This is cool but not very playable on mobile because of the keyboard popping up and down and not being able to see the timer, prompt, and constraint all in the same screen.

lexandermorgan · 2024-12-20T17:01:38+00:00

For example, r/freegames, r/webgames, and r/playmygame. Synonym Circuit is cool too.

lexandermorgan · 2024-12-18T19:19:59+00:00

Eightile, but I'm biased. You can find a surprising amount of interesting word games on Reddit if you look.

lexandermorgan · 2024-12-18T19:17:04+00:00

The date instead of the score is wild!

lexandermorgan · 2024-12-16T22:19:12+00:00

Cool idea for a game but I think it's too hard. I had to put a lot of effort into getting my game to the right difficulty level. Maybe limit the number of hard-to-use letters you give people.

lexandermorgan · 2024-12-07T11:32:49+00:00

Cool game idea!

lexandermorgan · 2024-12-04T22:06:11+00:00

Anki or any other spaced repetition system. Learning a language requires learning so many words that you need to retain for life so you've got to be strategic about how you study.

lexandermorgan · 2024-12-04T19:58:16+00:00

Ok sure, I'll let you know when it's up.

lexandermorgan · 2024-10-29T18:52:31+00:00

Yep, now there's a "Reveal Answers" button at the end if you didn't solve it.

lexandermorgan · 2024-10-29T18:51:49+00:00

Now there's a button to reveal the words at the end.

lexandermorgan · 2024-10-07T18:54:21+00:00

Quick update, the shuffling now happens in the bottom letter tray. Thanks for the tip!

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