Zsweep
Play Minesweeper using only Vim motions
Details
- External ID
- 46667849
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Zsweep
- Website domain
- zsweep.com
- Launched
- Jan. 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 78
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8728590250329381
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- developer utilities and gaming mods
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- minesweeper game using vim motions
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Zsweep is a client-side Minesweeper implementation built in SvelteKit that listens for keyboard events and maps Vim motions to grid cursor navigation.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Vim Snake, freesweep
Concerns raised: Escape key to finish game conflicts with 'i' for reveal, RET key too far from home row for opening blocks, Board state not displayed after hitting mine
Feature requests: H/L/M (High/Low/Medium) difficulty levels, Function keys (f1/f2/f3) to jump to next number in row, Open all unflagged cells around current cell, Emacs key bindings toggle in settings, Mobile support
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 192 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #29 of 193 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 78 days after the earliest competitor.
- Dreadsweeper · hn · 2026-08-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Minesweeper Raycasted · hn · 2026-07-25 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Classic Minesweeper · hn · 2026-06-30 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Reverse Minesweeper · hn · 2026-07-26 · 267 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Viddcut · hn · 2026-06-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- FastPlay, a fast minimal Windows video player built in Rust · hn · 2026-06-25 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- SoftMotion · github · 2026-09-09 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zig · hn · 2025-12-12 · 196 upvotes · similarity 0.42
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.