Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site
Details
- External ID
- 48629213
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site
- Website domain
- puzzlelair.com
- Launched
- June 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 251
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9726775956284153
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie puzzle games and learning toys
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- ad-free logic puzzle site
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Classic logic puzzles like Sudoku, Nonograms, and Kakuro have widely published generation and solving algorithms that can easily be coded into a web app using Hotwire/Rails or standard JavaScript.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Nintendo Picross games, Mobile logic puzzle apps (offline versions), Other logic puzzle websites
Concerns raised: Mistake checking system gives poor feedback on larger puzzles, Leaderboard biased toward earlier players with different scoring rules, Puzzles may have non-unique solutions, App ecosystem will be flooded with low-quality alternatives with ads/tracking
Feature requests: Keyboard shortcuts to toggle pencil mode, line mode, and other functions, Highlight inconsistencies (e.g., duplicate digits in same row) instead of error flagging, Increase cell size for better visibility, Add more types of logic puzzles to the site, Offline mobile version
Competitors
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Attention rank: #6 of 123 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 236 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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