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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
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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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Attention rank: #210 of 250 (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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