Waiting for LLMs Suck
Give your user a game
Details
- External ID
- 47929961
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Waiting for LLMs Suck
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- April 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 36
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8084832904884319
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Give your user a game while they wait for the LLM to return a result.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- game to play while waiting for llm responses
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a simple frontend widget or UI wrapper that embeds a mini-game (e.g., Pong, Snake) while awaiting an asynchronous LLM API response.
Discussion
18 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: HN Arcade, YouTube buffering snake game, Jake Gordon's Games
Concerns raised: Patent issues with Namco's expired patent, Google may have patent for similar concept, Dopamine-hit chasing/addiction concerns, Token efficiency for AI agents
Feature requests: Demo video or GIF on landing page, Play games directly on GitHub page, Slots/gambling mechanics, Quiz or educational mini-lectures, Wall panel mini-games for elevators
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 57 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #7 of 58 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 168 days after the earliest competitor.
- An API that catches what your LLM confidently got wrong · hn · 2026-04-09 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Peer Arena · hn · 2025-12-28 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- games · github · 2026-09-16 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Your AI Slop Bores Me · hn · 2026-03-05 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Next Session · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Token Forecaster · ph · 2026-09-25 · 65 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- game-the-llm-reviewer · github · 2026-09-21 · 176 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Math Gambling · hn · 2026-09-10 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.37
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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