It’s super cheap to run. I pay for analytics and thats basically it. Everything else is hobby level plans.

But it does take a decent chunk of time to make the puzzles. We have a baby at home so time is at a premium.

There are many other definitions of fairness as well.

This comes back to the thread we’re discussing. What a fair wage means is a philosophical and moral question. Not just a math problem.

If someone inherits a business and earns higher wages than their workers is that fair? What did they do to earn that?

And an overly simplistic view of the math problem too. (Surely going from 1000 to 2000 customers is as easy as going from 10 to 20, right?)

https://tiledwords.com

I checked my analytics recently and over 100 people have 100+ day streaks which kind of blows my mind!

I released custom player puzzles which has been a lot of fun! I’ve gotten dozens of submissions that I’m working through. People are submitting really clever and interesting puzzles. It’s fun to get to solve puzzles I didn’t make myself! There’s more I want to do here (featured puzzles, categories, etc.)

https://tiledwords.com/player-puzzles/page/1

I think I’ve also tracked down an issue that was causing the game to crash on older iPhones. I’m having playtesters run through it now and hope to deploy tomorrow. (Switching some positioning rules from CSS transforms to SVG coordinates)

I recently made some puzzle brainstorming tools using the Datamuse API which have been very helpful for brainstorming words related to a theme.

I’m starting to debate some monetized features. So far everything is free but it would be nice if my wife and I could dedicate more time to this. If I could get a few thousand dollars a month in subscriptions my wife could quit her job and focus more on puzzle creation and improving the game. If you play and have ideas for features you pay for I’d love to hear them!

The game also often wanted to reorient me towards the flag which was annoying when I was trying to go another direction.

It also sometimes was tricky to drag the ball - It thought I was trying to pan the perspective.

All that said, this is fucking rad! I think with a few small tweaks you've got something really special. And it could easily be extended with windmills, power-ups, etc. I'm excited to play more and see it progress!

Arms races always work out great for arms dealers. Less so for the average Joe.

To maintain a functioning society and social contract?

Is wanting low unemployment in our society not rational?

It still makes it a tougher sell to deliver high quality more slowly

Side note: when it comes to front end I’m thinking less about scalability and security (though they apply) and more about performance, accessibility, reaponsiveness, quality UI, maintainability, basic design sense, etc.

- Make something crappy fairly quickly

- Make something good a little slower

AI has introduced a third option:

- Make something really crappy at light speed

A lot of companies are very excited about this and it makes it hard to advocate for "make something good a little slower" (even though AI can help speed that up.)

It feels like a race to the bottom. Companies were already prioritizing speed over quality. With AI a lot of them are doubling down.

I know most people don’t agree with that but it seems nice to me