


Same game, three different Reddit experiences
I built a word puzzle that reads the room. Deploy it to r/FlexWord and you get the standard experience: Daily FlexWord, FlexPlay, FlexArena. The game I've been shipping for months. Deploy the same app to r/FlexPlayCozy and it detects the context, swaps the UI, and delivers a low-stakes cozy version. Same solving logic underneath, but it genuinely feels like a different game. The third sub, r/FlexBard, uses curated Shakespearean words with a citation card showing the play, act, scene, and line where that word appears. Same puzzle engine, completely different flavor. All of this runs from one codebase. Reddit's Devvit platform handles the branching based on which subreddit the app is running in. I'm a 59-year-old forklift driver who codes on days off, and honestly this is the thing I'm most surprised actually worked. All three are free and live on Reddit:
- r/FlexWord (standard)
- r/FlexPlayCozy (cozy mode)
- r/FlexBard (Shakespeare)
If you play one, drop a comment in the sub. If you build on Devvit and want to talk through how the context detection works, I'm around.