Minimal Brain Teaser Web Game (Handcrafted, No AI)
Details
- External ID
- 47623053
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Minimal Brain Teaser Web Game (Handcrafted, No AI)
- Website domain
- github.io
- Launched
- April 3, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 26
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7802056555269923
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Built and open-sourced in the era before AI. I’m sure you know where to find the code.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- web-based puzzle game
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a minimal web-based 2D puzzle game that can easily be generated using standard HTML5 Canvas/JavaScript in an afternoon with an AI assistant.
Discussion
14 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Firefox compatibility broken due to old code, Regional blocking (Netherlands unavailable), Confusing scoring systems (speed vs moves vs stars), Stars mechanic not explained in tutorial, Outdated prompts asking users to download non-existent app
Feature requests: Extra score for fewest dots used to cage circle, Clarify scoring system priorities in UI
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 241 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #52 of 242 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 147 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Threej games · hn · 2026-05-02 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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- CodeWisp - AI Game Creation Platform · yc · 2026-03-04 · 56 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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- I Built a Retro Survival RPG in Vanilla JavaScript · hn · 2026-05-09 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.