u/BreakfastPizza24

450+ users on day one for a history puzzle web app (now thinking about retention)

I've been working on a small daily web puzzle where every day you get 6 historical events shuffled up, and you drag them into the correct order from oldest to newest. Mix of big history (moon landing, Berlin Wall) and pop culture (Garfield debuting, MTV launching, etc.).

It's free, no signup, no ads. Plays in about 30 seconds. After you submit you get a shareable result grid like Wordle and each card links to the wikipedia article for the events so you can learn more if you want.

I know this won’t have mass appeal among the normies, but I do expect a good number of highly intelligent people to be interested.

So far from only organic sharing several hundred people came the first day and have expressed interest in continued use.

Open to feedback on what would give it staying power longer term? There's obviously initial interest, but I dont know much about retention for this type of thing. Was wondering if any one else here has worked on anything similar?

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u/BreakfastPizza24 — 12 hours ago

450+ users in day one for a history puzzle web app

I just made this daily puzzle game called Chronl that tests your sense of history by placing world events into the correct chronological order.

After you submit, you’ll see what you got right and wrong, and links to the wikipedia pages for each event will appear.

I know this won’t have mass appeal among the normies, but I do expect a good number of highly intelligent people to be interested.
So far from only organic sharing several hundred people came the first day.

Open to feedback on if this is fun, what would give it staying power?

https://chronl.com

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u/BreakfastPizza24 — 12 hours ago
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Chronl - a daily history puzzle where you drag events into chronological order

I've been working on a small daily web puzzle called Chronl. The idea is simple: every day you get 6 historical events shuffled up, and you drag them into the correct order from oldest to newest. Mix of big history (moon landing, Berlin Wall) and pop culture (Garfield debuting, MTV launching, etc.).

It's free, no signup, no ads. Plays in about 30 seconds. After you submit you get a shareable result grid like Wordle.

Honest feedback is welcome especially on difficulty. I've been thinking maybe it starts easy on Monday and each day of the week it gets harder, but I'm not sure what would be most fun.

chronl.com
u/BreakfastPizza24 — 2 days ago