Toroid
Conway's Game of Life on a grid that never dies at an edge
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Details
- External ID
- 1267096
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Toroid
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3258772542988956
- Tags
- Indie Games, Simulation Games, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Oct. 7, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 7, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Toroid is Conway's Game of Life on a wrapping board, so gliders never hit a wall. Draw a pattern, press play, watch four rules do the rest. Web, iPhone, iPad, Mac, and a standalone Apple Watch app. No accounts, no network, no ads.
Enrichment
- Niche
- casual games and playful developer toys
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- conway's game of life on a toroidal grid
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Conway's Game of Life on a toroidal grid is an introductory computer science programming exercise that an AI coding assistant can generate in minutes.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 42 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #22 of 43 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 278 days after the earliest competitor.
- Snakes & Ladders Now · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Tortoise Blocks · ph · 2026-09-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Block Royale · ph · 2026-09-25 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Metal Ball Maze Toy 3D · ph · 2026-09-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- snake-game · github · 2026-09-16 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Cellula · ph · 2026-10-05 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Infinitum Block Smash · ph · 2026-09-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Beagle Bounce Android · ph · 2026-09-26 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.34
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