Eyeball
Games
guessing game
SHOW HN2026
How HN took it
26 positive, 32 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 9 critical, out of 69 comments about the project. Thread score +0.27.
Design: 5 for, 6 againstIdea: 7 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Simple premise, fun and hard to put down
From 4 comments
Simple premise, oddly hard to put down.
lbeyer on HNthis is fun!
trickybusiness on HNthis was fun
tt_dev on HNlove it, pulls you in after a first try)
oastp on HN
Clean, minimal design
From 2 comments
Cool idea, love how simple it is. Minimal and clean.
joey9prints on HNThis is fun! and I really love the clean and modern UX.
sentacraft on HN
Objections
Unclear what to do until you figure out the goal
From 3 comments
Oh that version actually made sense. Going back to our newer game, I realized that I am supposed to figure out where the number given should fall on the line. A case study in…
kerblang on HNThis is fun but you need to put "click the line" higher on the page. It took me a while to figure out what I was looking at.
zer0tonin on HNcool game. I tried. would be nice to include a helper description around what to do. took me a while to understand the challenge better.
0xchamin on HN
Low contrast and the 'click the line' text is hard to see
From 3 comments
This is fun but you need to put "click the line" higher on the page. It took me a while to figure out what I was looking at.
zer0tonin on HNJust any kind of contrast between foreground and background would help.
oneeyedpigeon on HNThe low contrast of this website hurts my eyeball
wolttam on HN
Small tool overlay distracts while adjusting
From 1 comment
This is great. If only the little square tool would disappear while I make adjustments though - it's just enough of a distraction to barely miss.
stronglikedan on HN
Requests
Training mode to repeat missed rounds
From 2 comments
Love it! It would be great to have a 'training' mode, where you get to repeat ones you miss. This would increase the learning speed. Easy training- repeat the one you just borked…
forlorn_mammoth on HNGreat idea! Have you considered storing triplets <range, correct number, selected number> for each try and making image plots of these (x/y coordinates are correct/selected…
throwawaydudhdn on HN
Timed mode or time limit
From 4 comments
Suggestion: make timed tracks - like a sequence of 10 turns, within max 60/30/15s or something.
gverrilla on HN10 round avg 4.5%. A time limit would make sense imho. For extra challenge, add diagonal or curved lines.
zokier on HNWould love a time trial mode
fspoettel on HNthis is fun and helping me get grounded :). adding a timer would be a good idea, I think.
ketul_shah on HN
iOS or native mobile version
From 1 comment
Definitely need an iOS version! An angle version on a circle would be nice too.
antoine-codefly on HN
Questions
What does native give you that this doesn't?
From 1 comment
What does native give you that this doesn't?
tantalor on HN
Alternatives named
Matthias Wandel's Eyeball game on woodgears.ca
From 1 comment
A modern take on Matthias Wandel's classic [0], which has you guess a variety of geometric attributes (e.g. angle bisection, centroid locating, shape regularization), not just…
MontyCarloHall on HN