I built a new word game, Wordtrak
Details
- External ID
- 48021420
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I built a new word game, Wordtrak
- Website domain
- wordtrak.com
- Launched
- May 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 81
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8836833602584814
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hi HN! Looking for feedback on this 1v1 and daily word dueling game I've built over the last few months.Play here: https://wordtrak.com/Or on iOS here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wordtrak/id6760442363 (Android version soon!)
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI agent games and chess tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- word game
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a standard web and mobile word puzzle game built with Rails, Stimulus, and ActionCable for real-time multiplayer duels.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Wordle, Scrabble
Concerns raised: Unclear gameplay rules/mechanics without tutorial, Low daily return rate (5% vs 10-20% target), Unfair async multiplayer due to race conditions on letter draws, High draw variance compared to full games, No Android version yet
Feature requests: Visual how-to-play animation on main page, Practice mode or ability to replay old games without signup, Each player gets same letters in same sequence for fairness, Better result sharing options for text messages, Visual/audio satisfaction animations for good plays
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 183 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #18 of 184 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 188 days after the earliest competitor.
- WORD GRAB · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- An endless scrolling word search game · hn · 2025-12-11 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- WordBattle · hn · 2026-04-01 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- A word game a friend and I built. How did we do? · hn · 2026-02-16 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Alphabet Soup, a multiplayer game, build the longest word to win · hn · 2026-08-09 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- WordFight · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- DrawingBlanks · ph · 2026-09-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- words.zip · hn · 2026-01-12 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.52
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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