The HN Arcade
Details
- External ID
- 46793693
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- The HN Arcade
- Website domain
- github.io
- Launched
- Jan. 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 352
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9881422924901185
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I love seeing all the small games that people build and post to this site.I don't want to forget any, so I have built a directory/arcade for the games here that I maintain.Feel free to check it out, add your game if its missing and let me know what you think. Thanks!
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive simulations and creative experiments
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Marketplace
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- hacker news game arcade
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a basic static curated directory and showcase site built using standard documentation tools like Docusaurus.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Million Dollar Homepage, Reddit Canvas, HN Algolia search
Concerns raised: Using LLM for placeholder data instead of obvious placeholders, Limited historical data backfilling
Feature requests: Sort by new/recent games, Publish date filtering, Analyze historical submissions
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 298 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #6 of 299 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 91 days after the earliest competitor.
- ArcadeDuck-Site · github · 2026-09-18 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- I built a website for games that catch my eye · hn · 2025-11-28 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Shoot-em-up Deck Building game · hn · 2026-01-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- built my 15-year-old game idea · hn · 2026-08-16 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Terminal Arcade · hn · 2026-05-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Gaming Couch · hn · 2025-12-21 · 437 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Save Trippy · hn · 2025-11-27 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Build your own Bracket City puzzle · hn · 2025-10-31 · 32 upvotes · similarity 0.49
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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