Hacker News: jmpavlec

New comment by jmpavlec in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

jmpavlec — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:01:34 +0000

Still working on my daily word association game 'Noun Sense'. Had quite some people from the UK complaining that they were scoring lower with the British variations of words like colour or behaviour. Going to rerun the data crunching and combine the most common ones so the scores will be more "fair"

You can try the game here: https://daily.gametje.com

Also working on a multiplayer version of the same game.

New comment by jmpavlec in "The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month"

jmpavlec — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:32:24 +0000

Currently getting a 503 on the docs: https://docs.canine.sh/

New comment by jmpavlec in "Show HN: Twixt – transform one word into another in four moves"

jmpavlec — Mon, 25 May 2026 00:46:13 +0000

I'm American, 'one' and 'won' are pronounced the same. I'm trying figure out how they would be pronounced differently...

Thyme and Time are also the same for me (although I understand this one). I wonder where the other commenter is from.

New comment by jmpavlec in "Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI"

jmpavlec — Thu, 14 May 2026 01:44:20 +0000

Tried to visit the site, seems down? It's http://hyphen.space/ right?

Adding Live Reload to a Static Site Generator Written in Go

jmpavlec — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:07:13 +0000

Article URL: https://jon.chrt.dev/2026/03/20/adding-live-reload-to-a-static-site-generator-written-in-go.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47805528

Points: 1

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New comment by jmpavlec in "Claude Opus 4.7"

jmpavlec — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:55:54 +0000

The Dutch especially. It's refreshing

New comment by jmpavlec in "Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most"

jmpavlec — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 05:17:16 +0000

Very nice. Currently on mobile where it mostly works in landscape. (Unusable in portrait). Will check it out on desktop later.

Love the idea of making someone's day.

New comment by jmpavlec in "Show HN: The HN Arcade"

jmpavlec — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:29:29 +0000

Great idea! I added a github issue for my game platform https://gametje.com. It currently has 8 multiplayer party games. Play on your smart TV, laptop. phone to phone, or directly within Discord.

I made a Show HN post back in November: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45887709 but I've added two games since then.

Thanks for creating this.

New comment by jmpavlec in "Show HN: Speed Miners – A tiny RTS resource mini-game"

jmpavlec — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 05:26:16 +0000

Fun little game, worked well enough on mobile. Some of the upgrades were cut off and I left auto move on, but I was still able to beat the average fairly easily and was just off the leader board.

Some small tweaks for having everything be viewable and I'd say it is playable on mobile.

Nice job

New comment by jmpavlec in "So you wanna de-bog yourself (2024)"

jmpavlec — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 05:15:27 +0000

> That's why having goofy names for them matters so much, because it reminds me not to believe the biggest bog lie of all: that I'm stuck in a situation unlike any I, or anyone else, has ever seen before.

Toward the bottom of the article in case you didn't get that far.

New comment by jmpavlec in "Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 players"

jmpavlec — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 10:36:03 +0000

What languages would you like to be playing in? I guess Noot vir Noot is Afrikaans?

New comment by jmpavlec in "Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 players"

jmpavlec — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 09:35:34 +0000

I know these guys. Definitely give their games a try! They are actively developing and making it better every week. It's especially fun in person. My favorite game is the dodgeball game.

If you prefer more quiz/slower paced games akin to Jackbox. You can check out my project which was also on HackerNews recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45887709

New comment by jmpavlec in "Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 players"

jmpavlec — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 09:24:15 +0000

You can give https://gametje.com a try. I created an Android TV app for it (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gametje). Also works in browsers/remote calls etc. It is slower paced play from smart phones more akin to Jackbox Games (not action games).

(Also free to play with a Guest account)

New comment by jmpavlec in "Show HN: Mushak – Zero config zero downtime Docker/Compose to server deployment"

jmpavlec — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 13:28:39 +0000

Looks interesting, barebones but in a good way. Seems to be a good fit for how I am currently hosting. Will give it a shot after the holidays.

Thanks!

New comment by jmpavlec in "Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN"

jmpavlec — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 22:48:18 +0000

I mean your profile is public and probably already injested by other LLMs... So what are you protecting? Anyone could add your username in there...

New comment by jmpavlec in "Show HN: My Tizen multiplayer drawing game flopped, but then hit 100M drawings"

jmpavlec — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:15:47 +0000

Really well done! Not sure how I never stumbled on your game as I am doing something quite similar (https://gametje.com/). I'm also hosting on a minimal server stack with "boring" tech. Would love to have a chat if you are open to it. I'll send you an email on your support email.

New comment by jmpavlec in "Think you know most common first letter in your language?"

jmpavlec — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 09:54:08 +0000

In this blog, I dive into first letter analysis to make sure I can generate acronyms correctly in all languages my new game supports.

Think you know most common first letter in your language?

jmpavlec — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 09:54:08 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.gametje.com/posts/2025-11-30/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46229480

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by jmpavlec in "Show HN: FuseCells – a handcrafted logic puzzle game with 2,500 levels"

jmpavlec — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 06:23:11 +0000

> Hi everyone, I built FuseCells, a minimalistic logic puzzle game where every level is handcrafted (no procedural generation). It started as a personal challenge to design a clean rule-set and scale it to thousands of puzzles without losing difficulty balance. > > What’s unique: • 2,500 handcrafted levels across multiple grid sizes • Deterministic logic — no guessing required • A rule system inspired by constraint-solving and path-finding concepts • Daily challenges and global progress tracking • Fully built as a solo dev project > > Technical notes for those curious: • Level generation tools I wrote validate solvability using a custom constraint solver • Difficulty is estimated via step-count of the solver • The game is optimized to run smoothly on low-end devices • Designed first for iOS, now fully adapted for iPad as well > > I’d love feedback from puzzle lovers, game designers, and anyone interested in handcrafted logic design. Here’s the App Store link: [inserați linkul] > > Thanks for reading — happy to answer any technical questions!

Sounds like something I would enjoy. Unfortunately I don't have iOS.

I hate to be the guy but your post text here doesn't exactly portray "handcrafted". Seems to be heavily AI with the sentence structure and the "[inserați linkul]" at the end (are you Romanian?). Quite a lot of em dashes and bullet points in the middle of sentences.

Any specific reason you used AI here?

New comment by jmpavlec in "Show HN: Invisitris a Tetris-like game, where the placed pieces become invisible"

jmpavlec — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 05:00:25 +0000

Cool idea! I want to say there is a similar mechanic in the game Tetris Effect when playing the connected mode against the bossea where pieces become invisible as soon as they are placed. This is slightly more forgiving than that.

Great execution on mobile as well. Almost didn't try it as I didn't expect it to work, but it was intuitive and performant.

What did you use you make it?