Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site

2 hours ago (puzzlelair.com)

I feel like the Nonogram is AI generated? There’s no way a human would set a perfectly symmetrical “diamond” as a medium difficulty puzzle. Worse yet, the hard difficulty is just “big diamond”, the same thing on a slightly larger grid.

  • I mean the front page is full of LLM smells, so presumably the games are made that way too.

    And that's fair; this whole thing could be one-shot with any of the leading models.

By the way, if you are interested in nonograms specifically, there is a great website nonograms.org that has tens of thousands nonograms (both B&W and color) and no ads.

How do you plan to keep it free from ads? I see it has accounts, if it was completely client side, it could have been forever free.

  • It doesn't cost me much to run. About $9/month for the VPS + domain and I run other apps on the same VPS. Just my little hobby server. It does have monetization though, but I give the first 25 puzzles of each type + difficulty for free and then you pay a few bucks to unlock the rest. Maybe I'm being too generous, but it's not a big deal really.