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

timenotwasted — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 23:45:56 +0000

I've been a word game fan for a long time and always wanted to try my hand at building a unique take on the genre since so many fall into a Wordle type clone these days. I came up with the concept for SpellRush a few months ago and finally got it to what I think is a pretty fun concept over the past few weeks. Would love feedback from anyone that is up for giving it a try! https://spellrush.com/

Show HN: Added a new puzzle mode to my game

timenotwasted — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:35:17 +0000

Hi HN! I submitted my word game a few days ago and since that time I've added a new puzzle mode, tutorial, and a host of other QoL updates.

Not to worry I won't be spamming Show HN with updates but I did think the new puzzle mode would be worth an update. Would love any feedback if you have a few moments to try it out. Thanks!

Link: https://spellrush.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46878999

Points: 1

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New comment by timenotwasted in "How I Experience the Web Today"

timenotwasted — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 19:41:47 +0000

As someone who has been launching personal projects through the years it's so frustrating to constantly lose the battle against these sites. First mover advantage has been so true in the web that is it is so hard to gain any traction against these behemoths that keep degrading the user experience.

I'm still hopeful that we'll find a way to surface sites that do not succumb to this type of hostile user behavior but that may be naive on my part.

New comment by timenotwasted in "A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words"

timenotwasted — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 01:41:49 +0000

Hopefully this is an ok place to plug my own word game, https://spellrush.com/. It's very different from Wordle but that was a conscious decision since there are so many clones out there these days. Really wanted to put a fresh spin on word games.

Show HN: SpellRush – A new kind of word challenge game

timenotwasted — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 13:34:39 +0000

Like a lot of people I love word games so I always wanted to have a go at creating my own. I went through a lot of iterations to create something that was unique from many of the games I had played. What I've finally landed on feels like it is a good combination of both challenge and fun.

I'd love any feedback you have to offer if you get a chance to try it out. Thanks!

Try it here: https://spellrush.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46836549

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by timenotwasted in "Web development is fun again"

timenotwasted — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:57:20 +0000

As someone that only has sporadic pockets of deep time in my free time the thing that has been immensely helpful from an LLM coding point of view is mental model building. I can now much more easily get "into the flow" after being away from a codebase for a period of time by asking questions. For example, remind me where all the integration points for that API route is located. Or give me a rundown on this file. Etc.. It gets me back up to speed so much more quickly and makes me productive with limited amounts of time. It also means I don't have to try to carry this context around with me or I'll forget it.

New comment by timenotwasted in "Web development is fun again"

timenotwasted — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:39:35 +0000

You just described my experience exactly. Especially the personal side project time as a parent. Now after bed I can tinker and have fun again because I can move so much more quickly and see real progress even with only an hour or two to spend every few days.

New comment by timenotwasted in "Floor796"

timenotwasted — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 17:13:08 +0000

The Jaws one is fun too, only reason I found it is because it says click beneath it, https://floor796.com/#b3l3,84,789

New comment by timenotwasted in "Ask HN: What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great?"

timenotwasted — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 01:23:26 +0000

By far the most disappointing for me has been the Roomba x2. I love the concept and when the first one didn't live up to the hype I somehow convinced myself the newer version surely had the bugs worked out. Neither lasted working in my house for longer than a few weeks. Not because they were broken but I spent more time dealing with them than I did just vacuuming. Haven't tried another robot cleaning device since.

New comment by timenotwasted in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"

timenotwasted — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 02:45:06 +0000

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New comment by timenotwasted in "IQ differences of identical twins reared apart are influenced by education"

timenotwasted — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:41:58 +0000

As a parent of identical twins watching them develop and grow is fascinating. I do wonder at times how much of it is due to going through every single life stage together but then again there are times where that bond seems to go beyond environment. There was a sobering but very interesting documentary on identical twins called Three Identical Strangers, if you are interested in this type of stuff it's a good watch.

New comment by timenotwasted in "Orion 1.0"

timenotwasted — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:09:19 +0000

I was curious but unfortunately can't get it to launch

New comment by timenotwasted in "The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing"

timenotwasted — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 04:50:36 +0000

"Embrace outages, and build redundancy." — It feels like back in the day this was championed pretty hard especially by places like Netflix (Chaos Monkey) but as downtime has become more expected it seems we are sliding backwards. I have a tendency to rely too much on feelings so I'm sure someone could point me to some data that proves otherwise but for now that's my read on things. Personally, I've been going a lot more in on self-hosting lots of things I used to just mindlessly leave on the cloud.

New comment by timenotwasted in "Private Equity's New Venture: Youth Sports"

timenotwasted — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 17:04:47 +0000

I feel like this article is trying to make this seem like this is becoming a widespread thing despite the entire thing being about hockey. In my experience hockey was always the sport that the wealthier households participated in due to the costs (equipment, rink time, travel, etc..).

As a parent with two younger kids I haven't run into this at all so I wonder how much of it is more sport dependent where the company controls the infrastructure. Maybe I'm being naive here but I struggle to imagine this is going to make its way very far into other sports where you simply are out in a field.

New comment by timenotwasted in "Nano Banana Pro"

timenotwasted — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:22:32 +0000

We just need a new AI for that.

New comment by timenotwasted in "Tailscale Down"

timenotwasted — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 23:18:56 +0000

I could be mistaken but I don't recall Tailscale being one of these?

New comment by timenotwasted in "Questions for Cloudflare"

timenotwasted — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:11:51 +0000

"I don’t know. I wish technical organisations would be more thorough in investigating accidents." - This is just armchair quarterbacking at this point given that they were forthcoming during the incident and had a detailed post-mortem shortly after. The issue is that by not being a fly on the wall in the war room the OP is making massive assumptions about the level of discussions that take place about these types of incidents long after it has left the collective conscience of the mainstream.

New comment by timenotwasted in "WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model"

timenotwasted — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:49:36 +0000

That's actually really helpful to understand better, thank you!

New comment by timenotwasted in "WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model"

timenotwasted — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:36:09 +0000

It feels like real weather AI|Forecast|whatever_you_want_to_call_it is still far, far away. Maybe it's just the consumer aspect of weather apps but I don't feel as if I get any more accurate data now than I did back when my parents turned to the daily weather channel for the forecast. Still a lot of clear days when rain was predicted or the even more dreaded torrential downpour when it was supposed to be sunny and clear.

Obviously all I have is anecdata for what I'm mentioning here but from a consumer perspective I don't feel like these model enhancements are really making average folks feel as if weather is any more understood than it was decades ago.

New comment by timenotwasted in "Michael Burry of 'Big Short' Fame Deregisters Scion Asset Management"

timenotwasted — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:24:43 +0000

You left off my caveat "which to be honest very few do regardless" but point taken.