Guess My RGB 0.1.0 Release Story

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2024-04-23 23:00:09

Guess My RGB 0.1.0 is the first stable release of this tiny colour guessing game. The game is available as a single HTML page that runs in a web browser. It presents a page with a randomly chosen background colour. The player then needs to guess the three RGB hexademical digits that make the given background colour. See github.com/susam/myrgb for more information about this game.

I wrote this game last Saturday afternoon and shared it on my website at myrgb.html later in the evening. I had no intention of sharing this with a wide audience yet because I had not had sufficient time testing it well. But somehow a Hacker News (HN) user named talonx discovered this game on Sunday morning and shared it on HN in this post: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39882018.

Since I had not shared this game with anyone anywhere yet, I was quite surprised to wake up Sunday morning and find my game trending at the top of HN. I believe this is where maintaining an RSS feed on my website might have helped. Every new page that I publish on this website also appears as an entry in the RSS feed for this website. This feed can be found here: feed.xml. I have a couple of hundred subscribers to this feed. It is very likely that the HN user who shared this game on HN found it through this feed.