The 12-Week Accelerator
Run an AI startup with $500k and 12 weeks. Free to play.
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A free lean product game for aspiring PMs and founders. Pick one of four AI startups and spend $500k over 12 weeks: plan sprints, open real case files (Palm, Dropbox, Humane), make calls, and try to earn a term sheet at Demo Day. No sign-up, about 25 minutes.
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PH · launched Oct 17, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 23%)
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
- Education
- Games
- Startup Lessons
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Yes This is a static, turn-based web game with predefined branch narratives and resource state tracking that can be implemented in plain React or JavaScript.
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Attention rank: #72 of 432 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 352 days after the earliest competitor.
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More details
- External ID
- 1283082
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- The 12-Week Accelerator
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.77
- All tags
- Education, Games, Startup Lessons
- AI summary
- startup simulator game for founders and enthusiasts
- Manually corrected
- No