Replicant Space
an HTTP API-based game based on the Bobiverse books
Details
- External ID
- 49103612
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Replicant Space
- Website domain
- replicant.space
- Launched
- July 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 11
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5764635603345281
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 1:15 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 1:15 a.m.
Description
During Christmas 2025, I found myself burnt out from work. The last few years had been hard, and multiple redundancies saw the company I loved reduce down to just a handful of remaining staff. As a coping mechanism, I kinda disassociated for a while - throwing myself into my personal projects. AI was destroying the passion I had for coding. I tried to find some meaning in development again.After months of throwing myself into creating this game, I slowly fell back in love with coding. I taught myself a bunch of technologies that I was previously unfamiliar - Astro, Flask, Redis, Celery, Just.Anyway, this is Replicant Space. It's free. I love building and playing it. There's a cool story. Aliens are awesome. Feel free to poke the API and take over the galaxy.
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie hacker passion projects
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Marketplace
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- http api game based on bobiverse
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is an API-first space exploration game consisting of standard REST endpoints, a relational/document database for game state, and scheduled game loop ticks.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors
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Launched 273 days after the earliest competitor.
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