Show HN: Feudle – A daily puzzle game built with AI

1. I spent around 5-8 minutes on the site and got multiple (4 or 5) modal “subscribe to my newsletter” popups, some within seconds of each other. This is extraordinarily obnoxious and is enough for me to never want to visit your website again, regardless of its other merits.

2. I’m on mobile, and while the keyboard interface looks nice, it performs much worse than my phone’s native keyboard. There are multiple reasons for this: it’s laggy and routinely drops inputs; it doesn’t allow for alternative input schemes like swiping (I’m not an accessibility expert but I imagine it’s a disaster for anyone with serious accessibility needs), and it “feels” less accurate than the phone’s native keyboard input. Plus, its behavior and letter positioning is just very jarring compared to how I expect my phone keyboard to behave, which adds to how annoying it is to use.

3. Today’s prompt seemed fine, but the surveyed prompts for “next time” all seem rather low quality. I’m not sure how you’re generating these, but you should probably spend a bit more time doing QA, especially while you’re trying to build a user base; speaking personally, seeing that “Besides white christmas, name a song on big crosby’s white christmas album”[sic] is a potential future prompt really does not inspire confidence and makes me rather uninterested in ever coming back.

Cool game. Concept is not new, but good execution.

Here is some feedback:

1. Remove the annoying popup 2. Use native elements for input, I don't know what is it in your code, but this is not native, because when I type, Vimium plugin intercepts my input rather than the input box.

I entered "meat" and it matched "chicken" as a correct answer. "Ham" was also a correct answer that I failed to guess. In my mind, both "chicken" and "ham" fall under the "meat" category. If a guess is not specific enough to differentiate between two possible correct responses, I think you should mark it incorrect.

I found the popups annoying. I understand that you want to capture an audience, and apparently these pop ups work, but I find them off putting. A box somewhere on screen that people can use would be less invasive. Enjoyed the game though.

great idea! I've toyed too about a daily word challenge, and I've made Acro: daily word challenge: iOS https://apps.apple.com/br/app/acro-daily-word-challenge/id16... Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.madarco.ac...

I'm wondering how many of the choices were the AI's and how many were yours - like why is it an "unusual" text box - no cursor, on-screen keyboard, etc.

Also, "not being a developer" means you don't normally do software development or you have no idea what you're looking at if shown source code?

Great game idea. I'd suggest you limit the questions top international topics though. I got a suggestion for "name a hurricane" - this probably wouldn't generate very interesting responses outside of America.

Nicely done! :) I think this works well as a daily game, smart to get players to fill in the survey. Quite hard though! I only got one right for today.

Can you remove the annoying "give me your email" popup? It's preemptive enshittification.

Would it be possible to list incorrect guesses? In case I make a typo, or I forget a previous guess.

Very good reminds me of Family Fortunes the 80s UK game show

the self-suffiency is clever: players responses filling the survey. how do you do the matching of guesses to the answer board?

this is fun! I enjoyed playing