SimDrive
a browser racing game with your phone as the controller:D
Details
- External ID
- 47954074
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- SimDrive
- Website domain
- simdrive.xyz
- Launched
- April 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 21
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7589974293059126
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Games in general and multiplayer games have been a big part of what my friends do together (not just digital; sports, board + card games)And it moved to online games as more of us moved to other places and party games became our go-toLove jackbox and gaming couch (that I discovered here on HN)I saw the vibej.am for this year and I couldn't think of a good enough idea till about the 3rd week but here I am!This is a game made for me and my friends and it's also very inspired by what I thought the PS3 6-axis controller would be when I first heart about itThanks for reading this and I hope you and your friends enjoy playingYou can play either split screen or on separate screens with the room code or even have two split screens play too (max 8 players for now)It started with F1 cars but working on go-karts, trucks and tuk tuks :DI've tried to include a lot of "simulation" in the game. There's decent physics that include down force, grip etc and it even changes with/without the rainIdeally you have an android+chrome phone so you can "feel" your driving with vibrations/haptics but otherwise you'll have just sound as feedbackOops long post, bye
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive simulations and creative experiments
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- browser racing game controlled by phone
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Building a browser racing game using WebSockets or WebRTC (like Jackbox style) where mobile browsers send accelerometer/touch inputs to a desktop screen is a standard web game project achievable with AI assistance.
Discussion
18 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: vibej.am - single screen browser games, Collisio - phone controller party games, PadlessBox - separated joystick and projector games, Star Trek bridge sims
Concerns raised: Safari requires extra permission prompt for motion control that other browsers don't need, QR code pairing unclear - users try room codes instead, Motion control doesn't work on iPhone/Safari, Two-screen requirement confusing when opened on mobile first, Multiplayer latency issues with separated joystick/projector setup requiring multiple region servers
Feature requests: Better tutorial screen to test tilt steering before game starts, Landscape mode detection with rotation prompt, Single-screen mobile-only version, Browser-only controllers for schools (not just phones), Improved hand/character model visuals
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 279 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #67 of 280 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 182 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Gametje · hn · 2025-11-11 · 112 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- A short walking sim based on 3DGS that runs in the browser · hn · 2026-07-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- A solar system simulation in the browser · hn · 2025-12-29 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- An addictive phone game about phone addiction · hn · 2026-05-11 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Beakdown · hn · 2026-07-28 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- SkiFlee (an HTML5 game) · hn · 2026-04-02 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.49
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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