GlobeHoppr
find a route between cities using limited-distance jumps
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Hi HN,I built a game where you have to travel from point A to B by hopping through intermediate cities.Each jump has a maximum range, so you can’t simply select the destination. You need to build a route through cities that are close enough together, using as few jumps as possible.It sounds straightforward until you need to cross a part of the world where you only know one or two cities. I’ve found that the game exposes a different kind of geographical knowledge: not just knowing where countries are, but understanding how cities connect across a region.There’s a fixed daily route that everyone can compare, along with unlimited practice games, weekly challenges and multiplayer.I hope people enjoy it and I would love any feedback!
HN · launched Jul 30, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: geography trivia games · 73 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -62% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Travel & hospitality
- Dev tools
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes GlobeHoppr is a map-based puzzle game calculating Great-Circle distances (Haversine formula) between cities, easily built with Leaflet/Mapbox and standard client-side graph search algorithms.
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #368 of 374 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 274 days after the earliest competitor.
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