The Zelda timeline to catch up before the Ocarina of Time remake
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I made this ahead of the Ocarina of Time remake which comes out in 17 days. I remember the feeling of playing it as a kid but I hadn’t kept up with the story so I built a timeline to catch up before the Door of Time reopens.Nintendo’s own timeline is the authority here (Hyrule Historia and their chronicle page). The fun part was rethinking how to visualize it. It branches at the end of Ocarina into three eras depending on whether Link wins or loses, so each era is its own thread on the cloth. The threads meet again much later with Breath of the Wild.I had a lot of help from Claude. I’d often thought about building things like this but never found the time between the day job and the rest of life.
HN · launched Oct 18, 2026 · 226 upvotes (top 4%) · 0 views
Niche: video game trainers and guides · 169 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -13% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes This is a static, content-driven web timeline of Zelda games that is simple to build and needs no special infrastructure.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Official Nintendo Zelda timeline
Concerns raised: Spoils game details, Flawed premise about Zelda lore continuity, Site loading issues, Unclear author contribution versus Claude generation
Feature requests: Clarify human contribution versus AI usage
Competitors
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Attention rank: #7 of 159 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 329 days after the earliest competitor.
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