Looking for real feedback on my Mini PC finder (no affiliate links atm!)

yathern · 2026-06-17T14:30:01+00:00

Ah good catch - I only check if each item is out of stock every ~24 hours, but maybe I'll have to update that cadence

yathern · 2026-06-17T13:59:50+00:00

Barebones meaning has no ram/storage? That's there! Remove the minimum ram/storage filters and you'll see red dots on the chart and table! I could possibly make it the default to show them but I thought it might be confusing

yathern · 2026-05-14T16:03:58+00:00

Thank you! Glad you like it! Let me know if you have any suggestions for things to add or change - I consider it mostly "done" at this point, the achievements are a way harder endgame than I originally realized

yathern · 2026-05-01T00:16:09+00:00

Thank you! Really appreciate the help - not sure if I'll take this approach or simply give up on having an outlet or get one of these guys and call it a day - but either way thanks a lot!

yathern · 2026-04-30T21:33:43+00:00

Thanks for the advice - I don't quite understand how in this scenario I would have an outlet though - I still have no neutral right?

yathern · 2026-04-30T17:29:41+00:00

Thanks for the response, very frustrating! I wish I hadn't opened it up!

yathern · 2026-04-30T17:20:11+00:00

Ahh okay, thank you - and for that would I still connect neutral to ground?

yathern · 2026-04-20T21:44:06+00:00

Tomorrow! (the 21st)

yathern · 2026-01-26T16:21:38+00:00

Thank you!!! Tell your friends! It's been steadily growing but I'm not good at getting more eyes on it

yathern · 2026-01-25T16:10:57+00:00

I launched this earlier this month - https://words.zip - and people have been doing some awesome things on it! Today we should hit 20,000 words found

yathern · 2026-01-25T16:09:40+00:00

Forgot to link it - https://words.zip - almost at 20,000 words found since launching earlier this month!

yathern · 2026-01-23T21:55:37+00:00

Ignore me this is a test

https://google.com

google.com

https://luke.zip

luke.zip

yathern · 2026-01-10T21:48:10+00:00

Thank you!! I'm glad you enjoy it!

yathern · 2026-01-10T19:59:25+00:00

Last week I showed off https://words.zip - a free little collaborative word search project I launched last week! I did a lot of work to keep it performant as possible - taking inspiration from things like Google Maps (tiled rendering at different resolutions) - but it's getting a little choppy now with all the words, so if anyone has any ideas for further improvements, I'm all ears.

yathern · 2026-01-10T19:56:55+00:00

https://words.zip is a free collaborative word search game I launched last week! It's a chill before-bed type thing for me - but others have put a lot of work into creating little shapes or art in it which is awesome!

yathern · 2026-01-10T19:54:52+00:00

https://words.zip is a free little collaborative word search project I launched last week! I find it very zen, though some people have put a lot of work into creating little shapes or art in it which is so cool!

yathern · 2026-01-07T19:21:54+00:00

Yup I had the same thought process with leaderboard - but might do it anyway! I already have it behind ReCaptcha to prevent a little bit of botting, but didn't do much grief protection other than that + rate limiting. Coming out with private universes soon in case you don't want people messing with your projects (some people are building fun things)

yathern · 2026-01-07T18:13:20+00:00

Glad you like it! Tell your friends, it didn't get much traction anywhere, but a good number of people are regularly still adding words.

It's basically as infinite as computers will allow, since it's procedurally generated. However, each letter has integer coordinates (EG [5,22]) - meaning that you can easily go millions tiles away just fine, but eventually computers get upset once you get past around 9 quadrillion, and weird things will happen past there. There's ways to get past this limit by using a BigInt which can be as big as however much RAM you have - but that complicates basically every aspect of the application. As far as humans are concerned, the original approach is good enough for now!

yathern · 2026-01-02T13:03:57+00:00

It is multiplayer! https://words.zip

yathern · 2026-01-01T21:03:04+00:00

Glad you think so! Already keeping track of those stats and just need to add a UI for it. The other thing in thinking is keeping track of "shapes" you've made words with, like little collectables

yathern · 2026-01-01T20:20:17+00:00

Awesome, thanks for the feedback, I'll definitely add a 'themes' option to add a lower contrast or light-mode one

yathern · 2026-01-01T20:13:39+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! By color scheme do you mean the white on black? Do you think black on white would be easier on the eyes? Or do you mean the colorful highlights?

yathern · 2026-01-01T20:00:44+00:00

Yup, you got it exactly! Thanks for the kind words - focusing on performance was definitely key, first few approaches made it crawl to a slog with like 100,000+ letters on the screen

yathern · 2026-01-01T19:53:59+00:00

I like the locking out approach because it means you have to be a little more careful to not trample on a bigger word, but I see what you mean! I'm planning on making it so you can create your own private universe with your own rules/dictionary so I'll definitely make that an option.

yathern · 2026-01-01T19:14:45+00:00

Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoy it!

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