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Show HN: Monkeys.zip – 3000 Monkeys on Typewriters

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145 points yathern | 1 comments | 03 Apr 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.233s | source

Hey HN! I posted this on April 1st when it launched, and though it didn't get traction here, it was a minor hit on reddit! Now that we've got a few thousand monkeys under our belt, wanted to give it another shot here!

Happy to talk about the technical details of running the site - using supabase/postgres and constantly putting out fires from the traffic.

1. sen ◴[04 Apr 25 06:23 UTC] No.43578900[source]▶
This is adorably cute, and deceptively fun to follow along with. I particularly like that it shows which monkey discovered a word first, making you want to visit back and see if your monkey found any new words.

One thing I'd like to see is a way to go back from the "Word view" (after you clicked to see details about a specific word) back to your monkey view with the list of words.