I turned GitHub Actions into a Minecraft hosting service
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HN · launched Nov 17, 2025 · 6 upvotes (top 73%) · 0 views
Niche: cloud and application hosting platforms · 146 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -53% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 146 launches in cloud and application hosting platforms →
Could you build this?
Yes This is an automation hack using GitHub Actions runner workflows combined with ngrok or Cloudflare Tunnels to expose the server port, which can easily be scaffolded by an LLM.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 850 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #611 of 851 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 13 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Preloop · hn · 2026-10-12 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.55
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- .github · github · 2026-10-09 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- .github · github · 2026-10-12 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- .github · github · 2026-10-26 · 529 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- .github · github · 2026-11-08 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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