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A 100% free startup simulator that's brutally hard
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Build a startup and try to keep it alive. Hire a team, ship products, manage cash, pay taxes and weigh funding against equity. A brutally hard business simulator for iOS, in English and Spanish. 100% free. No subscriptions or in-app purchases.
PH · launched Oct 23, 2026 · 4 upvotes (top 7%) · 2 views
Niche: management and simulation games · 82 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -58% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- iOS
- Simulation Games
- Games
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Could you build this?
Yes A business simulator is a rules-based game with a numeric state model, menus, and a cash and equity engine. A solo developer can build it with a game engine or SwiftUI.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 118 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #12 of 119 (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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- Screenpane · ph · 2026-09-29 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- San Fran Sim · ph · 2026-07-11 · 310 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Earned · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- The 12-Week Accelerator · ph · 2026-10-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Founderhop · ph · 2026-11-02 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- A game where you invest into startups from history · hn · 2025-11-15 · 43 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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