Three Pins a daily 3-hole golf game in the browser
Details
- External ID
- 49525284
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Three Pins a daily 3-hole golf game in the browser
- Website domain
- threepins.golf
- Launched
- Sept. 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12998405103668262
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie puzzle games and learning toys
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- daily 3-hole golf game in browser
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While basic browser games can be vibe-coded, an accurate 3D golf game featuring complex physics (ball spin, trajectory, lie, wind, elevation contours), 12 courses, and real-time multiplayer party play requires advanced graphics and physics tuning.
What it would actually take: The stack likely uses Three.js or Babylon.js paired with a custom or modified physics engine (like Rapier or Cannon-es) tuned specifically for golf aerodynamics (Magnus effect, ground friction, and lie bounce). Real-time party play requires WebSockets or WebRTC networking with state synchronization and anti-cheat validation. Building smooth 3D terrain rendering, responsive camera orbit controls, and nuanced sports trajectory math requires seasoned 3D graphics and game physics programming.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Physics feel wonky, Ball trajectory curves unexpectedly
Feature requests: Make wind effects more visible
Competitors
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Attention rank: #164 of 198 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 294 days after the earliest competitor.
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