Hoop Simulator
Simulate NBA games, seasons, drafts and careers, free
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Pick two real NBA rosters and simulate every possession: box score, key plays, the lot. Then play out the full season, run the new 2027 draft lottery, raise a player from age 8 to retirement, or take over a franchise as GM. Free, no sign-up.
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PH · launched Oct 31, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Media & entertainment
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Basketball
- Free Games
- Games
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Partial The UI, season/draft/career modes, and box-score display are standard app work, but a credible simulator needs licensed, up-to-date NBA player and team data and a believable game engine, which vibe coding alone won't supply.
What it would actually take: Architecture would be a web frontend with a backend that stores rosters, ratings, and seasons, plus a possession-level simulation engine driven by player attributes. The hard parts are obtaining accurate, licensed NBA data (rosters, ratings, contracts, draft classes) and calibrating the sim so outcomes resemble real basketball. That calls for sports analytics expertise and a data pipeline or licensing deal.
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Attention rank: #67 of 163 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 353 days after the earliest competitor.
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