I built a game on my old phone without knowing what I was building
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I'm calling this "Vibe Discovery" — distinct from vibe coding because I didn't know the requirements upfront. Started with "make something with the accelerometer" and discovered through 6 iterations that I wanted a WebGL marble game. The interesting part was the dev setup: Claude Code running in Termux on a Redmi Note 9 (4GB RAM). The same-device feedback loop — code, test accelerometer, react, iterate — made rapid discovery possible in a way that laptop-to-phone deployment wouldn't.
HN · launched Jan 15, 2026 · 11 upvotes (top 47%) · 0 views
Niche: casual mobile games · 461 launches, 77 in the last 7 days ▲ +15% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Hardware & robotics
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes The author explicitly describes vibe coding this experimental WebGL marble game using Claude Code directly on a phone in Termux.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #132 of 261 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 78 days after the earliest competitor.
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