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Earth Game

An offline CLI for turning life goals into quests

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HN · launched Jul 11, 2026 · 55 upvotes (top 14%) · 0 views

Niche: gamified habit and tracking apps · 136 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▼ -6% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Workflow automation
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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More like this: all 136 launches in gamified habit and tracking apps →

Could you build this?

Yes Earth Game is an offline command-line interface tool for gamifying personal goals into quests, which is a standard CRUD and local state management application easily built with an AI assistant.

Discussion

12 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Getting Things Done (GTD) by David Allen, RPG-style gamified task apps, Traditional to-do list apps

Concerns raised: Seems infantilizing to gamify adult responsibilities, Unclear what the tool actually does or solves, Unclear what 'loop' terminology means, No evidence people actually benefit from gamification

Feature requests: Web UI screenshots showing results after completing goals, More examples demonstrating use cases, Clearer explanation of core concepts and terminology

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 2667 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #354 of 2668 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 254 days after the earliest competitor.

  • life_quests · github · 2026-09-20 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.67
  • Refract · github · 2026-09-27 · 82 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • Dream-RSI · github · 2026-09-13 · 467 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • WorldPlay2 · github · 2026-09-28 · 46 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • ScienceBuddy · github · 2026-09-14 · 57 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • discord-quest-helper · github · 2026-11-04 · 137 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • decision-playground · github · 2026-09-19 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • The LAST DOOR · hn · 2026-10-14 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.52

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