Retrodex
Retro game collection tracker and game encyclopedia
Details
- External ID
- 48011395
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Retrodex
- Website domain
- retrodex.games
- Launched
- May 4, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 11
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6252019386106623
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I was looking for apps to track my retro game collection and everything looked.... really dated and not great. So I spent the last 5 months making my own. I've made a lot of apps for other people over the years, but this is the first one I've made for myself. iOS and Android. Let me know what you think!
Enrichment
- Theme
- hobby collectibles and gaming tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Marketplace
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- retro game collection tracker
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Retrodex is a mobile collection management app combining standard CRUD features, barcode scanning libraries, and public video game metadata APIs, which AI assistants can construct readily.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Gameye
Concerns raised: No web app - limits to mobile/tablet only, Inventory management difficult on small mobile screens
Feature requests: Web application version
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 97 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #42 of 98 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 176 days after the earliest competitor.
- Fossilware · hn · 2026-03-20 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Game Boy Release Timelines · hn · 2026-01-07 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- GameRoll: Game Backlog Tracker · ph · 2026-09-27 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Mod33 · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- TrackMyDex · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- I built a website for games that catch my eye · hn · 2025-11-28 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- RetroScale · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- My Windows XP portfolio with working Game Boy and iPod · hn · 2026-06-20 · 71 upvotes · similarity 0.43
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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