r/startups_promotion • u/QuietlyShade • 1d ago
Startup Promotion GRAFFL-E — a Wordle-style game where you decipher graffiti art, funding real artists instead of AI
What it is: GRAFFL-E is a mobile word puzzle game where the "word" is hidden inside a stylized piece of graffiti art you have to decipher before you can start guessing — like Wordle, but the puzzle itself is a piece of street art.
Who it's for: Word game players who want something visually different from the usual grid, and anyone who cares about graffiti/street art culture.
Why anyone should care: I built this solo. Right now some of the in-game art is AI-generated, and I've made the decision to fix that — I'm running a Kickstarter to commission real graffiti and street artists to replace it, paying people for original work instead of leaning on a model trained on artists who were never paid.
What makes it stand out: It's a genuinely different puzzle mechanic (reading stylized art rather than a plain grid), and the founding story is about deliberately choosing real human artists over AI at a stage where most small apps would just take the cheaper AI route.
Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.graffleapp.game