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https://FreeSolitaire.win brings around $500/mo (advertising revenue).

I started making this PWA in 2016 and I’ve been slowly adding to it over time. I intend it to stay minimal & lightweight. No framework, etc.

Fun fact: because it is so lightweight, it was included in the Moya app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nu.bi.moya), a popular messaging app in South Africa that is “data-free” for users (it does reverse-billing). Now half the players are South Africans!

Feedback is welcome ;-)



Nice work. Is there a way to share games? Like "I just finished #3181 in 96 moves, can you do better?"


Thanks :-)

Well yes, the very feature you described does exist! Sharing your result is available on game over, assuming you didn’t “cheat” (use hints) too much. It looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/kMouvTL.png That uses the navigator.share() API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/s...


Cool that the ads are at the end of the game. Do you get people to donate as well?

How did you start getting traffic to your game and how is it getting traffic nowadays? Apart from the South African app.


Yeah I don’t want the ads to be intrusive. I don’t get many donations, no. In my experience, people will donate for a tool deemed useful (for business, etc.) but not much to something recreative.

As for traffic: word of mouth, mainly. Posted it on Reddit back then, things like that. It grew organically from that. Also, although it’s far from being on top results on SERP (search engine result pages), some people do find it that way.




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