Lastwordonearth.com
Details
- External ID
- 48579250
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- Lastwordonearth.com
- Website domain
- lastwordonearth.com
- Launched
- June 18, 2026
- Cohort
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- 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
This is a silly idea I had a couple years ago that I just recently launched. It's a slow, globally shared word "game" (or experiment?) to find the Last Word on Earth. It starts with about 174k words on a board and anyone in the world can click a word to remove it from the board. Poof, gone. Eventually, the whole world will have decided on one word that remains (other milestone numbers are tracked as well).I imagine it's going to take a while to get down to a single word, but once that happens, it will be recorded and a fresh board will repopulate to start again. And again and again.There is little chance of this happening but it would be hilarious if the first final word was "why"? That would make a lot of sense.If you have a few seconds, add a few clicks to the board to help get the number down and let's see what happens!And if you have a few more seconds, let me know if you have any ideas or see any issues. I'd love to hear any feedback at all.
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
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- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A shared web canvas displaying a word list where users click to remove words can be quickly implemented with a standard database or Redis bitmap and WebSockets/Server-Sent Events.
Discussion
7 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Difficulty reaching final word with protection mechanism, A-words getting eliminated too quickly due to default loading position, Unfun experience watching favorite words get banished near the end
Feature requests: Per-session upvote/downvote protection for words with threshold, Random position loading instead of always starting at 'a', Jump to random words button for varied navigation, Input box to scroll to specific word faster, Log/record of journey down to final word
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 149 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #139 of 150 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 232 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Tiled Words, a daily puzzle inspired by board games and crosswords · hn · 2025-10-29 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- An endless scrolling word search game · hn · 2025-12-11 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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- A to Z · hn · 2026-01-07 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- A Daily Bible Game · hn · 2026-01-08 · 49 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Twixt · hn · 2026-05-21 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.47
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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