Started uploading TikTok videos to see if they drive traffic 🤞

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Week 4 on DateHunt.co

11.2 daily players on avg
2.8 returning daily players on avg
61.4% avg guess correctly

Added theme days where all hints follow a topic, hoping it’d get more traction from specific communities(like r/soccer). It increased traffic, but not enough

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I really enjoy adding these animations across datehunt.co - they make the game feel polished.

Tiny details but I do think they compound.

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Week 3 on datehunt.co

10 daily players on avg
5,5 returning daily players on avg
81% avg guess correctly

I haven’t done any marketing and I’m still not sure what’s the best way to approach it. I think TikTok is interesting but I don’t enjoy video creation :(

DateHunt - A daily history puzzle game www.datehunt.co

Recently read a blogpost from @NFX about the importance of communities in the new GTM playbook. This inspired me to create one for DateHunt leveraging Reddit: reddit.com/r/datehunt

Still in the process of fully fleshing it out but very excited if it works.

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Day 14 on datehunt.co
13 players
7 returning
46% guessed correctly

Interest has been falling a bit, not quite sure why. To avoid spamming, I’m thinking of changing these updates to be weekly.

Day 13 on datehunt.co
19 players
6 returning
47% guessed correctly

This has been the hardest puzzle so far, only 47% got it right.

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Day 12 on datehunt.co
13 players
9 returning
85% guessed correctly

Weekends are always tough, we had our lowest total of players in quite some time. “Never get too high, never get too low” is the best way to look at it I guess :)

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Day 11 on datehunt.co
18 players
12 returning
83% guessed correctly

I did finish the copy animation but can’t seem to get it to work on mobile. Also haven’t done much mkt so it’s natural we have less total users but more returning users.

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Hbd mate :)

I'm also thinking of adding signups so users can keep a streak (and hopefully other perks in the future like more games).

I've also thought about creating a subreddit where people can discuss the daily puzzles, but I believe it's too early to do so.

Day 10 on datehunt.co
23 players
11 returning
65% guessed correctly

I've been noticing some users press the share button a couple of times, so I'll be adding a copy animation today.

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Day 9 on datehunt.co
25 players
11 returning
80% guessed correctly

Two ways forward:
- we make the game stickier
- we make more viral

I’m leaning towards the second one since we’ve got a pretty solid retention rate and a consistent pool of players, wdyt?

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Day 8 on datehunt.co
23 players
9 returning
61% guessed correctly

I’m a bit stuck tbh, but it’s exciting as well. It’s a hard problem to get more players and make them return but it’s fun solving hard problems :)

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Day 7 update datehunt.co

24 players
10 returning from day 6
79% guessed correctly

Good: Our recurring user base keeps growing
Bad: The total amount of players is way too small

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Day 6 update datehunt.co
21 players
7 returning from day 5
81% guessed correctly

Will start doing @jackfriks approach to market on TikTok, but I’ve hated editing videos in the past.

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Nice! Looks cool.

Not monetizing yet (and not really sure I want to either)

Working on datehunt.co - a daily puzzle game.

What about you?

Day 5 update datehunt.co:
16 players
7 returning from day 4
75% guessed correctly

Lowest total players since launch but highest number of returning users. It’s pretty good that we’re starting to build a consistent daily user base, but I’ll have to up mkt efforts.

Day 4 update datehunt.co:
36 players
4 returning
56% guessed correctly

I’m not sure if being a Saturday affected it, but we had a big drop. My main worry is fewer returning players, I’m thinking streaks might help stickiness.

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Day 3:
103 players 🤯
6 returning players
85% guessed correctly

My best user acquisition channel? r/soccer’s daily thread. It wasn’t planned but got an overwhelmingly positive response 🥳

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Thanks for trying it out!

Nice!

DateHunt 2025/05/23

I solved it in 2/5 guesses!

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Play at: datehunt.co

Released datehunt.co - daily puzzle game where you have 5 historical facts and 5 tries to guess the correct month and date :)

After day 2:
36 users finished the game
2 returning players from day 1
64% guessed correctly

Definitely have some work to do to make datehunt.co sticky

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Can’t believe Claude code added basic analytics in one shot

One of the cool things I like doing when starting a new project is getting Discord notifications about key metrics.

Keeps me motivated to keep building datehunt.co and as soon as it gets annoying I change it to a more ambitious goal.

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Some stats after day 1:
26 users played
65% guessed puzzle correctly

I’ll keep updating to see if we can get users to stick daily :)

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Launched datehunt.co 🎉

Wordle-inspired, daily puzzle game. 5 hints, 5 tries to guess the correct month and year. Wdyt?

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Thanks! Will look into it!