I spent $100 in Claude tokens and 1k battles training my AI tank
Details
- External ID
- 48117078
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- I spent $100 in Claude tokens and 1k battles training my AI tank
- Website domain
- agentank.ai
- Launched
- May 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1147011308562197
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hi HN, I built AgenTank.It is a small game where an AI agent writes the logic for your tank. You watch it fight, give strategic feedback, let the agent update the tank code, and send it back into battle.I have run 1,000+ battles on my own tank and spent about $200 in Claude credits improving it. The part I enjoy most is not just winning, but watching the tank make visible mistakes, thinking of a better strategy, and seeing whether Claude can turn that into better code.
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI agent frameworks and developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- ai tank game trained with reinforcement learning
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The system combines a 2D game engine (such as PixiJS or Phaser) running tank battles with an LLM prompt harness that takes match stats/logs, asks Claude for improved code/heuristics, and replays matches.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Login/authentication issues with Google Sign-In, Confusing onboarding - unclear how to use tanks, redirect_uri_mismatch error preventing access
Feature requests: Better documentation or tutorial for getting started with tanks
Competitors
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Attention rank: #234 of 264 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 194 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.