TermType
a terminal typing game where words fall like Space Invaders
Details
- External ID
- 48618477
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- TermType
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- June 21, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12568306010928962
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Just a small game for the term.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- terminal typing game
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A terminal-based typing game where words fall like Space Invaders is a classic beginner or weekend project easily created with curses/blessed or standard terminal I/O via an LLM.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 154 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #141 of 155 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 235 days after the earliest competitor.
- Typocalypse · hn · 2026-07-04 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Gravitype · hn · 2026-09-19 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Letterphile-a word game where you try to make many words with 1 letter · hn · 2026-07-03 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- termablo · github · 2026-09-29 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- I've built a words game based on binary search · hn · 2026-07-16 · 50 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Purple Word · hn · 2026-02-06 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- A word game a friend and I built. How did we do? · hn · 2026-02-16 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- minigame · github · 2026-09-16 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.46
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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