I built a site that turns your Steam gaming hours into a RL skill tree
Details
- External ID
- 47667008
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I built a site that turns your Steam gaming hours into a RL skill tree
- Website domain
- alternatelife.xyz
- Launched
- April 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4813624678663239
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
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!
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie hacker passion projects
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- gamification tool for steam hours
- Manually corrected
- False
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
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 205 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #106 of 206 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 159 days after the earliest competitor.
- Wageslave · hn · 2026-03-31 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- I left my FAANG job at 50 to build a sci-fi game · hn · 2025-11-07 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- I built a website for games that catch my eye · hn · 2025-11-28 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- I rebuilt a 2000s browser strategy game on Cloudflare's edge · hn · 2026-04-11 · 38 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- I hated how much my 12-year-old played Roblox, so we built our own FPS · hn · 2026-07-05 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- The HN Arcade · hn · 2026-01-28 · 352 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Shoot-em-up Deck Building game · hn · 2026-01-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- I Created an Interactive Resume Space Invader Game · hn · 2026-02-27 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a vertical saas tool for Insurance yet.