Post

HN
Hacker News

Why I collect DLES

Oh hi! You were asking why does this website even exist?

OK then, some 3 years ago I accidentally made a little daily game called Rotaboxes — it's super niche, ~5k monthly players, very relaxing and I really enjoy working on it in my spare time. Some time ago I noticed some traffic coming from sites that seemed like DLES aggregators, most notably dles.aukspot.com . So of course I went there and discovered many more daily games I never knew existed. I was back then playing daily just Wordle, Nerdle and Rotaboxes. And I was immersed — I started to play from 5 to 10 DLEs every single day, and I kept noting the good ones and kept on playing them regularly. So that's how my little DLE collection started. I started to categorize, group, order and most importantly I built my own daily ritual.

Then I was browsing Reddit and noticed some people complaining about playing so many games daily that they forget to play some and lose their streak, so I thought — hmm, maybe my ritual could be helpful to others. I put together a plan and started building. Today, some 1 year later, the site serves thousands of players monthly and features 3 to 4 new daily games every single week. That's crazy, isn't it?

A couple of rules, so we understand each other.

If you regularly play a game I don't have in my collection, submit it here .

If you made a game I don't have in my collection, submit it also there (ha, it's the same place).