I built an open-source alternative to the "brainrot IDE" that YC funded
Details
- External ID
- 46279255
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- I built an open-source alternative to the "brainrot IDE" that YC funded
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Dec. 15, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2652671755725191
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
VSCode extension with games (Snake, Plinko, slots), HN/LessWrong reader, and Pomodoro timer for AI coding wait times. Fake currency only.Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TouchGra...Built in a week with Claude Code after seeing Chad IDE get ratio'd for integrating real gambling. Happy to answer questions or get roasted on the code.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
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- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open source ide
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a simple VS Code extension hosting standard webview minigames (Plinko, Snake), an RSS/API reader for HN/LessWrong, and a basic Pomodoro timer.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
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Launched 45 days after the earliest competitor.
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