Overdesigned Simple Solitaire
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I got irritated by the maximalism and lack of aesthetics present in modern software when trying to find a nice solitaire.A solitaire does not need a score, levels - and most of all it does not need to download anything, have user log in or do anything else except maintain game state.So since software comes automatically nowadays, I decided as a weekend project to create the last solitaire I'll ever need.The application is built on Rust so I can compile it to native. But it runs just as well as web app!I geeked out completely on design (it may look like "default" but that's the point) to create as non-intruding yet aesthetically pleasing experience as I could.I might have accidentally put in a complete card design system with a content pipeline (maybe I'll do default blackjack next) - but as a player you only see the one pack of cards.Anyway, hope someone here appreciates the minimalistic aesthetics.The game state is saved in the url so if you want to save a nice game you can do it by copypasting the link.The game engine is versioned so if I ever change the engine or state schema there will be support for the current version as well.There _is_ a novelty.If you click the "teach" button it shows all the available free moves as arrows.Hope this is fun for someone!
HN · launched Oct 21, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 90%) · 0 views
Niche: online board and casual games · 180 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▼ -19% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes A simple solitaire game with a clean UI and no accounts is a small, self-contained app that vibe coding can produce quickly, and the page already ships a working wasm engine.
Discussion
9 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Patience Revisited, Electron, Tauri
Concerns raised: No flip-one option, Game fails to start without WebGPU, Teach arrows too small, Slow load time, Undo broken after page reload
Feature requests: Flip-one mode, WebGL2 fallback rendering, Show cards left in pile, Card animations, Teach only shows moves toward a win
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 536 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #513 of 537 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 357 days after the earliest competitor.
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