marcusdev (u/marcusdev)

marcusdev commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026) · Posted by u/david927

marcusdev · 2 days ago

I've been working on a tool to solve a problem I keep seeing at my day job when handling large-scale deployments and migrations. The “plan” is always scattered across internal docs, spreadsheets, and Slack threads. Coordinating work across multiple teams becomes messy fast

So I'm building Taskplan (https://taskplan.run) - it's like Ansible, but for people. Build a plan, assign tasks to people or teams, and get a real-time dashboard to track progress as the work happens.

I'd love feedback from anyone who deals with the same issues or works on ops-heavy projects.

marcusdev commented on Show HN: An endless scrolling word search game endless-wordsearch.com... · Posted by u/marcusdev

mpalmer · 2 months ago

I saw that "ape" was a valid word, found it diagonally, but it didn't register. Guessing I found an "accidental" ape. cool though!

marcusdev · 2 months ago

Thanks for this! It was a tricky one to solve, but finding an "accidental" match now grants a point.

marcusdev commented on Show HN: An endless scrolling word search game endless-wordsearch.com... · Posted by u/marcusdev

djent · 2 months ago

The pulsing letters are both performance heavy and distracting. Firefox

marcusdev · 2 months ago

Thanks for the feedback - fixed!

marcusdev commented on Show HN: An endless scrolling word search game endless-wordsearch.com... · Posted by u/marcusdev

gregsadetsky · 2 months ago

Super fun, congrats! Works really well

My only feedback is just that the homepage had a lot of elements that distracted me initially - I wasn't sure if I had to type something (the input examples changing all the time made me think it was important to fill it out)

I ended up clicking "Start Game" on a whim and was glad that I could check it out immediately. Maybe make the "I just want to play now" option/button/CTA larger/more obvious (i.e. giving it more focus)?

To test it again, I just typed some words in the input bar, it forced me to login, I chose the Google login, I was then brought back to https://endless-wordsearch.com/#/sso-callback but the top right button still says Sign In, and my input was lost. So I assume the login didn't work?

I typed my input again, a popup appeared (mentioning Clerk)... then it finally logged me in. Now I'm back at the homepage, and my input has been lost again :-)

I typed my input a third type, and now I'm getting "Generation failed".

marcusdev · 2 months ago

Awesome, glad you like it! Thanks for the feedback. I've just bumped my Gemini API key limit, fingers crossed that fixes things for you.

marcusdev commented on Show HN: An endless scrolling word search game endless-wordsearch.com... · Posted by u/marcusdev

dvh · 2 months ago

Lot of missing words like kit, sit. And wth is kinkajou? I also did word game many years ago, it took maybe 1 day to code but the rest of the week I've spent filtering out garbage from corpus (names, shortcuts, non-words, non-English words). You can use it: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dvhx/game-word-puzzle/refs...

marcusdev · 2 months ago

You must have been playing the "Wild Animals" category. A Kinkajou is a tropical rainforest mammal according to Wikipedia :)

The 5 built-in word lists that you can play without signing up were generated by Gemini 3 Pro - there are a few obscure ones in there!