An addictive phone game about phone addiction
Details
- External ID
- 48092896
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- An addictive phone game about phone addiction
- Website domain
- partridge.works
- Launched
- May 11, 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
I recently prototyped a web game for a nonprofit to highlight the dangers of phone addiction, but unfortunately I ended up making a really addictive game instead. :-\I'm sharing this here mainly to serve as an indicator of what can be achieved early-2026 by a senior dev working with Opus 4.7 over 2 days using genuinely collaborative prompting. (ie plan->feedback->iterate)Hope it provides some inspiration or entertainment - there's a level editor too - maybe Hacker Newsers could share their favourite creations here?PS: If there's enough demand I'm happy to Open Source this (or DM me) - it's mainly just time restrictions at my end.
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie hacker passion projects
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- mobile game about phone addiction
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The author explicitly describes prototyping this 2D browser mini-game in about two days using an LLM.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
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Launched 194 days after the earliest competitor.
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