Lichess.el
Play Lichess Inside Emacs
Details
- External ID
- 46779861
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Lichess.el
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Jan. 27, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 22
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.66600790513834
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- music creation and audio software
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- chess game in emacs
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is an Emacs Lisp package that interfaces with the public Lichess HTTP and WebSocket APIs to display and play chess games in an Emacs buffer.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: chess.com, Stockfish
Concerns raised: API availability/richness compared to alternatives
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 238 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #92 of 239 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 71 days after the earliest competitor.
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- nesterm · github · 2026-09-28 · 49 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- NotProton · github · 2026-09-23 · 133 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- fcbnerd · github · 2026-09-14 · 61 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Clef · hn · 2026-08-07 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.43
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.