A Daily Bible Game
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I created a daily game where you get a random Bible verse and try to identify the book (e.g. "Psalms", "Genesis", "Luke") in as few guesses as possible.I have absolutely no clue how I got the idea, other than the fact that I grew up in the Orthodox Church and all my other coding projects have been faith-related (a terrible mobile app (1) and slightly broken Byzantine chant website (2) ). I'm a relatively new developer and I've been hungry for a project to build that people will actually use and share around, so I hoped this would fit the bill.Sure enough, friends and family have been making it part of their daily routine. When priests AND my nonreligious college friends started sending me their results every day, I knew I had something. It was really exciting.------When the idea popped into my head, I started working on it right away. I created the project at 1AM and had a MVP/SLC version done a few hours later. That was a few weeks ago.I am using SvelteKit, no external APIs, and SQLite for the database. It's hosted on an Ubuntu machine in my living room. Coding agents like Roo/Kilo Code assisted heavily in the development, but after I had already decided on the overall architecture and how I wanted things to work together.The game is free, has no signup, and I’m not running any ads. I’m looking for any and all feedback, and especially suggestions for how I can make the game more interesting, fun, and/or educational.Thank you HN!
HN · launched Jan 8, 2026 · 49 upvotes (top 21%) · 0 views
Niche: online trivia quiz games · 163 launches, 18 in the last 7 days ▼ -25% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes A simple SvelteKit-based daily puzzle game (similar to Wordle) that checks user guesses against a static or lightweight database of Bible verses.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: ebible.org (Bible translations in various formats)
Concerns raised: Verses may be too easy if book name appears in the text itself, KJV is a bad translation with poor sources compared to modern translations, Some Bible content not suitable for children, Unclear how to derive absolutely objective goals/ethics from religious texts
Feature requests: Filter to exclude verses containing the book name as a clue, Consider using better translations like NRSV, NIV, or NET instead of KJV, Provide access to annotated versions with historical context and translation notes
Competitors
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Attention rank: #84 of 395 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 71 days after the earliest competitor.
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