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🐟 A free, open-source idle fishing game for your Mac desktop. A tiny boat, automatic catches, 100 sea creatures and four traits. 小憩海湾：Mac 桌面放置钓鱼小游戏，上班摸鱼，真的有鱼。
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GITHUB · launched Sep 13, 2026 · 21 upvotes (top 38%) · 0 views
Niche: virtual desktop pets and widgets · 184 launches, 15 in the last 7 days ▼ -21% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- cozy-game
- desktop-game
- fishing-game
- idle-game
- indie-game
- javascript
- +6 more
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Could you build this?
Yes This is a lightweight desktop idle game with simple 2D graphics, timers, and collection state logic that can be generated quickly with SwiftUI or Electron.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 51 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #18 of 52 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 262 days after the earliest competitor.
- A free mini game that makes you a smarter fly fisherperson · hn · 2026-08-03 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Fold Fish · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- how-to-fish-unlock-all-fishing-toolkit · github · 2026-09-10 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Fish anything · hn · 2026-06-15 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Stockfish Chess: AI Offline · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- TackleChoice · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- FreeTableGames · ph · 2026-10-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- piggyhand-fish · github · 2026-10-15 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.37
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