Multi-player poker on SSH
ssh cli.poker
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my motivation - i was looking for some CLI games to play when the agent is working and this idea came into my head. this was when fable was available for 3 days, so seemed like a good use of tokens to try and build this out. spent some time polishing to finally get this out.the public matchmaking connects you on a first come first serve basis to anyone else in the world. there is a bot that will connect in-case a match is not found for 45 seconds. games last about 5-10 minutes (tournament style fast paced). and each game impacts your rating (glicko-2). so they're quite nice for idle time when the agents are running :)some other ideas in my head... - add a 1v1 mode where you can play against a co-worker/friend - company/college specific leaderboardswould love feedback / advice please!
HN · launched Jul 15, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 71%) · 0 views
Niche: terminal and arcade games · 42 launches, 3 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Communication
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes cli.poker is an SSH-accessible terminal application with Texas Hold'em game logic, Glicko-2 ratings, and terminal UI formatting (e.g., via Bubble Tea / Wish in Go), which LLMs excel at generating.
Discussion
11 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Service availability/downtime issues, Window resizing causes loss of hand results output, Names truncated in name field
Feature requests: Save bot on/off preferences, Replay/rematch functionality with countdown timer, Show opponent ranking, Longer hand resolution time for viewing both hands, Move chat to left side to avoid overlap with hand results
Competitors
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Attention rank: #222 of 264 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 257 days after the earliest competitor.
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