Wordit
Change One Letter, Keep the Chain Going
Details
- External ID
- 48649697
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Wordit
- Website domain
- victorribeiro.com
- Launched
- June 23, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 45
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8306010928961749
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hi everyone,I got this idea for a game where, starting from a four letter word you need to go as deep as you can in your vocabulary, changing only one letter per word.bear -> beer -> peer...Each correct word gives you 1 pointEach incorrect word takes one life away from you, you start with 3
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie puzzle games and learning toys
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- word chain game
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a simple word-ladder browser game with a dictionary lookup, standard game state logic, and a basic leaderboard backend.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Poople - similar word construction game, Wordle - word game concept
Concerns raised: Dictionary validation inconsistent (ment accepted as word, liam rejected), Game feels mechanical, AI can dominate leaderboard, Mobile UI issue - keyboard covers check button on Android, Limited engagement window compared to similar games
Feature requests: Add hard modes and difficulty levels, Timer-based challenges, Multiplayer/play with friends mode, Enemy AI opponent mechanic to increase engagement, Show complete word chain with dictionary definitions or Wiktionary links at end
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 106 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #14 of 107 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 237 days after the earliest competitor.
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- WORD GRAB · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Three Emojis, a daily word puzzle for language learners · hn · 2025-11-07 · 33 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Letterphile-a word game where you try to make many words with 1 letter · hn · 2026-07-03 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.