An NLP based word game for users to play against Astra, Opus, and more
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HN · launched Nov 6, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 85%) · 0 views
Niche: online quiz and word game tools · 92 launches, 7 in the last 7 days ▼ -46% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Agent / copilot
- B2C
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes Word Spies is a web word-association game with room-code multiplayer, a board UI, and AI seats powered by LLM APIs, all standard for a solo builder using AI-assisted development.
Discussion
7 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Model versions may change behind the same name, Arbitrary starting ratings may bias results, ELO formula not documented, Daily reset too costly
Feature requests: Track model ELO over consecutive days, Add a how-ratings-work section, Start all models at equal ratings, Weekly recalibration
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1419 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1156 of 1420 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 373 days after the earliest competitor.
- Wordchute · hn · 2026-10-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Danobang! · hn · 2026-03-29 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Purple Word · hn · 2026-02-06 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Letterphile-a word game where you try to make many words with 1 letter · hn · 2026-07-03 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- A word game a friend and I built. How did we do? · hn · 2026-02-16 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- I've built a words game based on binary search · hn · 2026-07-16 · 50 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- queen · github · 2026-10-02 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Devme.me · hn · 2025-11-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.55
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