An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball
Details
- External ID
- 48573012
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball
- Website domain
- ribbie.tv
- Launched
- June 17, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 260
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9754098360655737
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hey HN, I built a website to watch live baseball games in an 8-bit broadcast. It takes live MLB data streams and converts them into near real-time pixel art gamecasts.Been waiting to share this for when there’s actually a good slate of games happening since the site is pretty bare otherwise.Here is today's schedule:Mets @ Reds - 9:40am PDT https://ribbie.tv/watch/game/824503Royals @ Nationals - 10:05am PDT https://ribbie.tv/watch/game/822721Marlins @ Phillies - 10:05am PDT https://ribbie.tv/watch/game/823450Tigers @ Astros - 11:10am PDT https://ribbie.tv/watch/game/824178Padres @ Cardinals - 11:15am PDT https://ribbie.tv/watch/game/823044..and another 14 games throughout the later day.I'm still early on in this project, but I've tried to add little details with actual stadiums, day and night modes, between inning graphics and interstitials, live scoreboards, etc.Would love any feedback and ideas. Thanks for checking it out!
Enrichment
- Theme
- sports tech and casual gaming
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- 8-bit baseball gamecast
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building the retro UI is manageable, but mapping live MLB pitch-by-pitch data feeds in real-time to animated gamecast state machines is complex.
What it would actually take: The application requires ingesting real-time MLB Gameday API webhooks/WebSockets, parsing intricate event structures (pitch trajectory, hit coordinate mappings, base-runner states), and feeding them into a 2D canvas/WebGL game engine (like Phaser or PixiJS). The hard part is building the deterministic animation state engine that interpolates pitch data and field coordinates smoothly while keeping latency minimal. It requires real-time data streaming expertise and 2D game state programming.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Smallball (baseball simulation game), playball CLI tool
Concerns raised: PWA web app manifest path bug causing white URL bar, Font rendering inconsistency in game display
Feature requests: Support for World Cup/soccer matches, Team creation and player training with competitive simulation, Public team songs playing during crowd scenes, Upcoming games tiles rotation and W-L records display
Competitors
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Attention rank: #5 of 55 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 229 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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