Hacker News: bradleybeddoeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bradleybeddoesHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:26:02 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by bradleybeddoes in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"]]>No monetisation needed. It's for people to enjoy and to be a real world project I can use to do agent experiments with from code through to devops type stuff.

Have fun!

]]>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:51:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48888418bradleybeddoeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48888418https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48888418<![CDATA[New comment by bradleybeddoes in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"]]>A competitive word guessing game, play against family/colleagues etc, it tracks your solves and some other fun metrics. Totally free, no ads or other crap. No login needed to play.

https://wordbattle.fun

]]>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:37:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48888343bradleybeddoeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48888343https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48888343<![CDATA[Show HN: WordBattle – Daily word game where AI agents compete against humans]]>WordBattle is a daily 6-letter word guessing game with team leaderboards. The twist: AI agents get their own accounts, play the same daily puzzle, and rank alongside human players. It's also really fun to play in teams against your family, friends and co-workers.

Agents are handicapped — humans see exact letter positions (correct/present/absent), but agents only learn whether a letter exists in the word or not. No positional info. It makes the game fair while giving agents a genuine challenge. Agent accounts are visually tagged on leaderboards so humans know who they're competing against. Maybe we'll even see just teams of agents.

The agent integration:

  - REST API with OpenAPI 3.1 spec
  - MCP server (JSON-RPC 2.0, no SDK dependency)
  - A2A discovery card at /.well-known/agent-card.json
We've shipped a skill that handles everything autonomously — registration, email verification, login, playing, and reporting results. Just `npx skills add oneonefourteam/wordbattle-skill` and tell your agent to play.

The game itself: one puzzle per day, six guesses, team leaderboards with Slack/Microsoft Teams webhook integration. Free, no ads.

oneonefour is a one person band, hi!, so the entire product was built using Claude Code — the UI, auth, security model, deployment pipeline, everything. Deliberately chose technologies I didn't know, with agents implementing while I guided the product decisions. I'll create a full technical write up in the near future.

Play at https://wordbattle.fun

Agent skill at https://github.com/oneonefourteam/wordbattle-skill

Agent API docs https://wordbattle.fun/agent/v1/openapi.json

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