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Vibe-coded Steam, but in the browser

Details

External ID
48250843
Source
HN
Company
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Product
Vibe-coded Steam, but in the browser
Website domain
manus.space
Launched
May 23, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
8
Upvotes percentile
0.4894991922455573
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Description

Hi HN! Lifelong avid gamer here, hugely passionate about WASM and WebGPU. I firmly believe that these technologies will enable console and PC quality titles to be accessible through a browser, and with this, we'll need a new discoverability layer.Looking online, platforms like CrazyGames and Poki cater to a casual/hypercasual demographic, and I couldn't find anything out there that was for me, a core gamer that typically uses Steam and consoles. So I vibe coded my own! It features WASM ports of classic games, as well as some indie Unity titles. The goal is to host mainly WebGPU titles moving forward, and to serve as a way for smaller developers to get discovered outside of crowded channels like Steam.Here's a few features from the platform I wanted to highlight:• Controller support • A console-like UI/UX • Community forums (much work to do here) • Basic achievements • Store pages, modeled after Steam • Social features • Asset chunking to enable faster load timesI'd love to get feedback on the portal, to make it even better. Thanks!

Enrichment

Theme
interactive simulations and creative experiments
Vertical
Media & entertainment
Function
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Audience
B2C
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
browser-based game discovery platform
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes The creator explicitly vibe-coded this browser storefront and catalog for WebGPU/WASM games using standard web frameworks.

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Attention rank: #129 of 244 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 204 days after the earliest competitor.

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