I built a site that turns your Steam gaming hours into a RL skill tree
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Hey,A bit of context..So I think last week was my last straw, I hit 8k hours with dota and holy ** It finally hit me how much time I wasted on that game.I'm a software developer, I always wanted to develop something and put it out but was scared shitless to do so, I was kinda afraid to get bad traction, to fail or even worse to be completely ignored.so I decided to address two of these issues at once, stop playing dota and spend the weekend building a website that let you see what you could've done with your gaming hours.As an avid gamer for the last 20+ years, I know that it's only theoretical, cause sometimes, after a long day u just wanna chill infront of a game and you wouldn't go get a pilot license, obviously.but, a lot of other times, I would spend my days off, weekend, just gaming 10 hours straight like a mad man.In any case, hope u like it and maybe it sparks something in u!
HN · launched Apr 6, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 52%) · 0 views
Niche: gamified habit and tracking apps · 136 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▼ -6% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Analytics & BI
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes This can be built quickly by querying the public Steam Web API for play history and mapping game categories/hours to an interactive skill tree UI using standard frontend libraries.
Discussion
10 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Promotes productivity pressure over leisure enjoyment, Reinforces hustle culture and efficiency mindset, Doesn't account for corresponding skill mapping from gaming experience, Frames leisure time as inherently wasteful
Feature requests: Map gaming hours to corresponding real-world skill levels, Add 'chill scale' or certificate for low-engagement metrics
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Attention rank: #177 of 347 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 159 days after the earliest competitor.
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