Minesweeper Raycasted
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HN · launched Jul 25, 2026 · 18 upvotes (top 31%) · 0 views
Niche: browser puzzle games · 310 launches, 26 in the last 7 days ▼ -7% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Vertical SaaS
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes A pseudo-3D raycasted Minesweeper game in JavaScript canvas was literally generated as a single-prompt Claude Artifact.
Discussion
12 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Claude artifacts with fork button (previous version)
Concerns raised: Does not work / product is broken, Controls are atrocious, mouse doesn't respond properly, Flag button non-functional, Lacks clear affordances for user actions, AI-generated content quality concerns
Feature requests: Restore fork button for Claude artifacts, Display in-game control instructions, Fix mouse input handling, Make flag button functional
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 233 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #68 of 234 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 264 days after the earliest competitor.
- Dreadsweeper · hn · 2026-08-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.88
- Entombed in a Raycaster · hn · 2026-10-03 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Reverse Minesweeper · hn · 2026-07-26 · 267 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Classic Minesweeper · hn · 2026-06-30 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Zsweep · hn · 2026-01-18 · 78 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- oma-cast · github · 2026-10-19 · 408 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- mine-respocket · github · 2026-11-09 · 50 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- complexweeper-A-minesweeper-game · github · 2026-10-04 · 91 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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