Built a daily game where you sort historical events chronologically
Details
- External ID
- 47873966
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Built a daily game where you sort historical events chronologically
- Website domain
- hisorty.app
- Launched
- April 23, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 74
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.872107969151671
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hey folks,I built Hisorty, a small daily game where you sort historical events in chronological order (strongly inspired by Wordle mechanics).Each day you get 6 events and 3 attempts to place them correctly.I found it surprisingly tricky to design those puzzles so the difficulty is just about right.Would love feedback on: - difficulty balance - UI/UX - whether the concept feels engaging long-termHappy to answer any questions about how I built it.
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie puzzle games and learning toys
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- daily game sorting historical events chronologically
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A lightweight web game where users drag-and-drop or sort historical events chronologically is a standard frontend challenge easily vibe-coded in React or Next.js with static JSON data.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: kviss.eu
Concerns raised: Streak requires first-attempt win, too strict, Earlier/Later labels confusing, ambiguous interpretation, AI art style too polished, not hand-drawn enough, Card descriptions truncated on mobile
Feature requests: Make streak count for winning within allowed attempts, not just first attempt, Display full card descriptions without truncation on mobile, Adjust image generation for more hand-drawn, visible brush strokes, Clarify Earlier/Later label wording to avoid confusion
Competitors
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Attention rank: #18 of 161 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 176 days after the earliest competitor.
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