A TSP game I wanted for 10 years
built in 4 hours
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HN · launched Dec 9, 2025 · 12 upvotes (top 44%) · 0 views
Niche: browser puzzle games · 310 launches, 26 in the last 7 days ▼ -7% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Vertical SaaS
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
Visit website ↗ Source listing ↗
More like this: all 310 launches in browser puzzle games →
Could you build this?
Yes The game was built in 4 hours using an existing routing API (GraphHopper) and standard front-end mapping libraries to visualize Traveling Salesman Problem routes.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: No undo function for incorrect dot connections, Reset button clears everything without confirmation, Unclear how to undo or correct mistakes
Feature requests: Add undo functionality for moves, Show numbers on the board
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 625 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #275 of 626 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 39 days after the earliest competitor.
- Built my 15-year-old game idea · hn · 2026-08-20 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Infinite Jigsaw Game · hn · 2026-07-26 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Permanent Underclass · hn · 2026-02-24 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- townies · github · 2026-09-11 · 52 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- neon-harbor · github · 2026-10-14 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- I built an idle game that rewards you for doomscrolling less · hn · 2026-09-28 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- padmint · github · 2026-09-28 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- I made a WWI dogfight game that runs in the browser · hn · 2026-09-25 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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