Fossilware
a community archive of retro hardware, software, and games
Details
- External ID
- 47457874
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Fossilware
- Website domain
- fossilware.tech
- Launched
- March 20, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1070110701107011
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
i built a small site to collect memories of the things we grew up with: floppy drives, Game Boys, cassette tapes, forgotten software, classic games. the tech stack is React, Supabase and Vercel.fair warning: the items on there right now were seeded by AI to get things started. the goal is for it to grow through community submission. there's a submit form, no account needed.i'd love to gather some early feedback and get some more ideas. something i was thinking about in the future is having users create accounts to favorite items and comment their own personal experiences with items. right now everything requires manual approval but in the future i'd like to push that towards the community.thanks for looking!
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie hacker passion projects
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Marketplace
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- retro computing archive and community
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is an archival community forum and catalog site built on standard React, Supabase, and Vercel CRUD infrastructure.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Launched 140 days after the earliest competitor.
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