Replicant Space
an HTTP API-based game based on the Bobiverse books
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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.
HN · launched Jul 29, 2026 · 11 upvotes (top 42%) · 0 views
Niche: collaborative social web experiments · 63 launches, 1 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Marketplace
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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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.
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #246 of 520 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 273 days after the earliest competitor.
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