Cursor Party
An MMO cursor game built in 1 hour with Elixir Phoenix
Details
- External ID
- 46462546
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Cursor Party
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Jan. 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5006587615283268
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hi HN,I challenged myself to build a multiplayer game in just 1 hour. My goal was to experience the distributed processing capabilities of Elixir and Phoenix LiveView firsthand by creating a simple web app.It allows everyone to see each other's cursors in real-time and fight a boss together. This is currently a beta version, and I plan to ship new features every week.It's deployed on Koyeb. I'd love to hear your feedback on the performance!
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive simulations and creative experiments
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- multiplayer cursor game
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes As noted by the creator, this is a basic cursor-tracking multiplayer toy built in one hour leveraging Phoenix LiveView and WebSockets.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Server performance issues - overloaded and slow, Lag and frame drops on non-Chrome browsers and Linux, Progress loss during gameplay, High latency from US/Europe (server in Japan)
Feature requests: Demo GIF or screenshots showing gameplay
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 48 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #26 of 49 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 56 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.