Ship It: Idle Dev Tycoon
The idle game where App Review can reject you
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A pixel-art idle game about running an app studio. Ship updates, put out fires and survive App Review. Recruit 68 suspiciously familiar advisers, then sell your studio and do it all again. New in 2.0: App Review rejections, eight incidents, a Hall of Fame and a Game Center fortune leaderboard. Free on iPhone.
PH · launched Sep 30, 2026 · 94 upvotes (top 2%) · 0 views
Niche: simulation games · 118 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -44% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- iOS
- Indie Games
- Games
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Could you build this?
Yes Idle incremental tycoon games rely on simple numerical balancing formulas, standard 2D UI/pixel assets, and basic local state persistence or Game Center integration.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 64 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #3 of 65 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 319 days after the earliest competitor.
- A satirical idle game about running an AI startup · hn · 2026-05-23 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- ReviewAhead · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Uplift Indie · ph · 2026-10-06 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- AppCheckHQ · ph · 2026-10-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Silly Con Valley - Startup simulator · ph · 2026-10-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- RejectProof · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Prompt & Circumstance · ph · 2026-11-06 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Cash Empire Clicker · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
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