HackerDome, real time PvP programming duels ft. spectating and sabotage
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The programming interview process can feel like a race to the bottom. To get ahead of the curve, we've decided to define what it looks like at the bottom.Enter Hackerdome: a real time PvP programming puzzle duel with spectators and sabotage. A very non-serious site for a serious purpose (having a little more whimsy in our lives), where you can race a competitor to solve a programming puzzle or spectate and watch the chaos unfold. If the puzzles get too boring, the players might just find their editor playing back, with pop ups, font shifts, and more.Enjoy!
HN · launched Oct 27, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 90%) · 0 views
Niche: hackathons and coding competitions · 22 launches, 1 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes Real-time 1v1 coding duels with spectator chat and sabotage are built from WebSockets, a matchmaking and game-state layer, and puzzle definitions. Code execution can be handled by an existing sandboxed judge service, so this is achievable with standard web tooling.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 101 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #100 of 102 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 361 days after the earliest competitor.
- NETWAR · hn · 2026-11-13 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- collusion_hackathon · github · 2026-10-22 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Nonograms · hn · 2026-02-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- minecraft-resocket-combat-hack-2026 · github · 2026-11-09 · 50 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- HackThePlace · ph · 2026-11-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Vuln Box Arena · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- BrowseBrawl · hn · 2026-03-04 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Snaketron · hn · 2026-08-30 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.38
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