ToolNewFor Escape room

Hintline

Every second. Every hint. On the record.

Runs a timer for each escape room, logs every hint with its time penalty, and shows the fastest teams by room and month on a lobby screen.

Download the source

Zip, 179 KB. MIT licence. Built 28 Oct 2026.

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What you get

Everything a tool needs, already done.

Pages and screens

Hero
How it works
Features
Lobby screen
Live demo
Control room

Features

A separate clock for every room, running at once
Hint log with a time penalty on each hint
Leaderboard by room and month
Big-screen view for the lobby
Runs in the browser, no sign-up or install
Dark and light themes

Palette

#1f6f5c
#185a4a
#ffffff
#171a17
#5d635b
#d9dcd4

Style

Dark
Bold
Editorial

Hintline on a phone — On a phone, as shipped.

For developers

A real codebase, not a page builder export.

Stack

Vite, React 19 and TypeScript for the app. The launch page is plain HTML, CSS and a little JavaScript with no build step. Vitest for unit tests, Playwright for browser tests.

Run it

unzip hintline.zip
cd hintline
npm install
npm run dev

In the zip

site/ the launch page with the built app in site/app/
src/ and e2e/ the app source and tests
docs/technical-docs/ architecture, runbook, quick reference
START-HERE.md and LICENSE (MIT)

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