Wingspan Games: Arrow
a multiplayer game built in Elixir / Phoenix
Details
- External ID
- 46340877
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Wingspan Games: Arrow
- Website domain
- wingspan.games
- Launched
- Dec. 20, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.35877862595419846
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hi HN!This has been a fun little side project. You simply click to shoot arrows at falling circles (and the arrows of other players!) Hopefully, I make other social & simple games over time. I had to struggle with all the usually problems of game synchronization. It was a fun way to explore phoenix & elixir.You'll notice the signature claude code purple gradient. I'll be honest, I couldn't have built it without AI!If you really like it you can vote with your wallet and toss me $1.99. Or not!!
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive simulations and creative experiments
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Marketplace
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- multiplayer game in elixir
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a lightweight 2D multiplayer browser game using HTML5 Canvas and Phoenix Channels/WebSockets for simple state synchronization.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: No players available for multiplayer games, Lag issues for overseas/non-US players, Difficulty shooting at edge of screen
Feature requests: Add bot players for matchmaking
Competitors
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Attention rank: #168 of 260 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 52 days after the earliest competitor.
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- No other launches for this product.
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