Skub
a sliding puzzle browser game
Details
- External ID
- 47506958
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Skub
- Website domain
- skub.app
- Launched
- March 24, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 11
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6113161131611317
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hi HN,I've built Skub, a sliding puzzle game for the browser, based on a classic boardgame: Ricochet Robots.It started as a challenge of trying to simplify the boardgame mechanics to fit on a mobile browser, which led to an 8x8 grid.Since, it has evolved to a bit more of an experimentation with Deno, and a way for me to truly try out AI-assisted development. Claude Code has been especially helpful in building the BFS solver and setting up CI, less so in UI and logic.I hope you enjoy it, all questions / feedback welcome.
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie puzzle games and learning toys
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- sliding puzzle browser game
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Skub is a 2D sliding puzzle browser game based on Ricochet Robots with an 8x8 grid, which can be implemented in a weekend with HTML5 Canvas/React and basic collision/path logic.
Discussion
6 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Browser back/forward buttons change game state instead of navigating pages, Tab key navigation breaks inconsistently across browsers, Username prompt appears every level despite cookie storage
Feature requests: Remember username choice across levels, Dedicated undo/redo buttons separate from browser navigation, Replace game state in history on change instead of pushing new entries
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 162 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #70 of 163 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 146 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Antimatter · hn · 2026-03-24 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- I made a retro falling block puzzle, with a twist ;) · hn · 2026-09-06 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Bisecto · hn · 2026-08-20 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Dozenal · hn · 2026-07-27 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- I made a Tetris based block puzzle game · hn · 2026-01-18 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Linex · hn · 2026-02-24 · 82 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Phive, a Gomoku-like game to play with friends or solo · hn · 2026-05-30 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.44
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.