Zsweep
Play Minesweeper using only Vim motions
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HN · launched Jan 18, 2026 · 78 upvotes (top 13%) · 0 views
Niche: terminal and arcade games · 42 launches, 3 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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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 : 584 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #71 of 585 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 78 days after the earliest competitor.
- complexweeper-A-minesweeper-game · github · 2026-10-04 · 91 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Dreadsweeper · hn · 2026-08-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Minesweeper Raycasted · hn · 2026-07-25 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Classic Minesweeper · hn · 2026-06-30 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Viddcut · hn · 2026-06-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Reverse Minesweeper · hn · 2026-07-26 · 267 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- avp-play · github · 2026-10-08 · 105 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- FastPlay, a fast minimal Windows video player built in Rust · hn · 2026-06-25 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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