Blindfold Chess App
Details
- External ID
- 45961616
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Blindfold Chess App
- Website domain
- psochess.com
- Launched
- Nov. 18, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.0982532751091703
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I am building a chess app solely dedicate to practicing and mastering Blindfold chess. The first version of the app is now on the stores, will be adding puzzles and trainings to teach Blindfold next.
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI agent games and chess tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- blindfold chess game
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A blindfold chess training app relies on standard chess libraries (like chess.js or python-chess) to track board state while hiding pieces in the UI.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Feature requests: Training on well-known openings, Ability to uncover/peek at board during blindfolded play to check accuracy
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 53 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #53 of 54 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 20 days after the earliest competitor.
- Prologue · ph · 2026-09-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Chess on a Donut/Torus and Deep-Dive · hn · 2025-11-29 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Chessora · ph · 2026-09-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Chess4D · ph · 2026-09-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Chess Visualizer · ph · 2026-09-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Chess Journal · ph · 2026-09-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- ChessNextMove · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- A chess middlegame trainer so I can stop blundering · hn · 2025-10-31 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.40
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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