The history & pop culture trivia game where you try to place persons, events & inventions chronologically on a timeline. Like Wordle the Krono Daily Challenge is FREE to play and only playable once per day. Come back tomorrow for the reset!
Hey everyone!
I’m very excited to present “Krono - The Game of Ages” to you all!
🙈 What
Krono is a history and pop culture trivia game where you try to place events and persons correct on a timeline.
The main feature of Krono is the Daily Challenge. The daily challenge is free to play and – just like Wordle – only playable once per day. All players get the same set of questions. The next day it resets and a new challenge is available.
There is also two other game modes, themed challenges around certain topics and a daily history digest where you have a short article (shouldn’t take more then 30 seconds to read) about an historic event or person. New digest published every day!
💁 Why
Well. I’m born 1980. I had early access to PCs but also spent a lot of time with analog board games. I’m fascinated by history and what we can learn from it. And placing events on a timeline puts things into a perspective that sometimes can be mind boggling. After designing digital experiences for 20+ years Krono seemed like a sure thing to do, I should have done it earlier really.
I also want build something that you can come back to everyday; but won't hog all your attention or have you spending your entire day with it. There’s enough doom scrolling, privacy intrusive ads and attention hoarding apps out there.
I want Krono be something you come back to, spend a minute and maybe (hopefully!) learn something new. Put it away, go about your day and come back the next day (if you want to).
🚀 How
Designed and built by a very small team (two of us). Designed by me and all questions and articles e t c are written by me. I’m no historian or a writer – just a happy amateur. I try to fact check everything twice or thrice. Krono is built in Swift/Swift UI by Andrey (https://andrey.se) and he’s done a brilliant job. Excellent partner in crime. Krono uses the beautiful typefaces from Rutherford at Mass-Driver.com.
Krono are powered by Game Center for leaderboards and via App Clips you can try the daily challenge without downloading the app.
Telemetry Deck (https://telemetrydeck.com) provides light-weight app analytics that’s not evil. I love it.
🤖Future
Hopefully this is just the first step of many to come for Krono. There’s plan for an iPad version, more game modes, party mode, creating custom games and more fun ways of exploring history.
🥰 Now
I’d LOVE it if you tried Krono – it would make my day! You can try it directly via the app clip by visiting https://kronotrivia.com or download it from the App Store.
I’d appreciate ANY kind of feedback and your support both here on Product Hunt but also with a rating and/or review in the App Store. All these things helps a indie publisher.
See you in the leaderboards!
PS. My daily challenge score today was a measly 7. :/ Better luck tomorrow I guess! What’s your score?
Hi hunters.
Congratulations on the launch of your startup on the Product Hunt! 🚀
You have done an excellent job! What was the most challenging part of the process?
@dmitry_sytsevich Challenging: Build something that feels effortless to use and that you'd want to come back to.
Rewarding: Doing lots of historic research and going down the rabbit hole of interesting events and inspiring persons on Wikipedia.
Frustrating: Apples app review process. :P Those can be... frustrating and time consuming.
Thanks for the comment!
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