Agent-arcade
Terminal games that pause when Claude Code/Codex is done
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HN · launched Oct 31, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 73%) · 0 views
Niche: terminal and arcade games · 42 launches, 3 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes A terminal game that detects when an AI coding agent finishes and pauses is a small CLI app with hook or process-monitoring logic, well within reach of a solo vibe-coder.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Notification hook only pauses after about six seconds
Feature requests: Use PermissionRequest hook for instant pause
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1779 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1336 of 1780 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 365 days after the earliest competitor.
- intermission · github · 2026-10-02 · 99 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- claude-codex-loop · github · 2026-10-18 · 48 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- claude-flightdeck · github · 2026-10-02 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- den · github · 2026-10-11 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- project-sentinel · github · 2026-10-07 · 40 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Visual multi-agent orchestration for Claude Code · hn · 2026-06-25 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Real-time visualization of Claude Code agent orchestration · hn · 2026-03-30 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- OpenYabby, voice-controlled multi-agent orchestrator for Claude Code · hn · 2026-06-09 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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