Coder Words
An offline-first PWA word puzzle for programmers
Details
- External ID
- 48241225
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Coder Words
- Website domain
- kenamick.com
- Launched
- May 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4894991922455573
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
It's a clone of 7 Little Words, but with topics from computer science and programming. No sign-up, no app install, no tracking. It's a PWA and works offline, also as a home screen app.Tech: js, no libs, Canvas API, Web Audio, AI-aided but not vibe coded, puzzles curated by hand.
Enrichment
- Theme
- educational games and interactive learning apps
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- offline word puzzle for programmers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is an offline HTML5 Canvas word puzzle game with static daily word arrays and standard client-side state management.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Feature requests: Topic selection before playing
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 56 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #27 of 57 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 205 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.