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3 points by zkiihne ↗ HN
A little web game I made as an anniversary present for my wife.

Upload vacation photos and make them into a game.

WWW uses EXIF to determine where and when the photo was taken. This is then turned into a game you can send to anyone.

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Arainach
I had hoped that society had learned better than to tolerate "upload all your data and we'll give you a cute little game" back in the era of Facebook games.

There's no privacy policy, no data usage policy, no contact information, just "upload all your photos and we'll retain them forever and offer them up to whoever you share a URL with"

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bredren
Neat idea. I remember when the wall came down, you could buy chunks of it at our local Fred Meyer. (General store and grocery)

There was this big bin of pieces. I tried to remember how old I would have had to have been to remember that and was off by 17 months.

The mobile view could use some tweaks so it all renders without needing to scroll.

rogerrogerr
The wall, as in the Berlin Wall? Chunks were available at Fred Meyer in the US?

Genuine questions, I'm much too young to have been around and this is a piece of trivia I've never heard before.

eitally
I didn't know you could buy pieces at Fred Meyer, but I am also in the US and was 12 when the wall came down. I, too, have a piece (with graffiti!). It was a gift and I don't know where it came from, but my impression at that time was that it wasn't really much rarer than pumice from the Mt St Helens eruption (I have a piece of that, too, or a capsule of oil from the Prudhoe Bay disaster, which I also have in my collection from that era).
deadnomore
Amazing! Thank you for the idea. My memory is so bad that something like this seems like it would be helpful just to remember any bit of my life.
airstrike
from the title I thought this was a new wordle variant in which you had to remove letters until you get to the solution
dongjoo
Interesting! Creating a photo game seems like a good idea.
zodwick
super cool ! wished there were more haha
telesilla
It says 'you were less than a km away', for NYC as a correct answer. What does that refer to exactly?
loveTech
Congrats for the launch! I really like the shared photo rolls where friends guess where — and when — each shot was taken? Would a demo video help you reach more people and get the product adopted? If so, feel free to try Fluxcut (www.fluxcut.dev) where the demo video in the landing page is made by Fluxcut.