Stacks
an hourly card solitaire about building four gardens
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HN · launched Jul 15, 2026 · 15 upvotes (top 35%) · 0 views
Niche: online board and casual games · 180 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▼ -19% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 180 launches in online board and casual games →
Could you build this?
Yes Stacks is an hourly solitaire web card game with custom rules, which can be implemented straightforwardly using HTML5 Canvas or React with client-side state management.
Discussion
8 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Scoring system unclear and non-intuitive, Rules are impenetrable and hard to parse, No clear connection between cards and scoring outcomes, AI-generated artwork with visible artifacts when zoomed in, Limited play attempts before waiting to try again
Feature requests: Tutorial or practice mode with interactive card demonstrations, Visual explanation of scoring and card interactions on the field, Replace wall-of-text rules with clearer gameplay examples
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1013 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #328 of 1014 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 259 days after the earliest competitor.
- Gridl · hn · 2026-02-23 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- solitaire-well-enhanced · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- MorphMove · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Geojam · hn · 2026-07-09 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Unflip · hn · 2025-11-11 · 184 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- pocket-aces · github · 2026-10-08 · 55 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- card-design-generator · github · 2026-09-19 · 92 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Gembop, a block-placement puzzle game in 2D and 3D · hn · 2026-10-21 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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