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DogLM

Can you pet the dog in an AI-generated game?

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HN · launched Aug 31, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 69%) · 0 views

Niche: ai game generation and simulation tools · 122 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▲ +18% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Media & entertainment
  • Content generation
  • B2C
  • AI-native
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes It is an automated evaluation pipeline and leaderboard that prompts LLMs to generate simple browser games and evaluates the generated code using another LLM judge against a rubric.

Discussion

1 comment analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Gemini 3.7 Flash, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Other LLMs tested (17 models total)

Concerns raised: Benchmark is narrow and not robust yet, LLMs need explicit hints to generate interactive elements beyond what's mentioned, Only 56 out of 804 games had pettable dogs despite prompting, Benchmark constraints and limitations acknowledged by creator

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 1750 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #1348 of 1751 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 305 days after the earliest competitor.

  • deep_dog_2 · github · 2026-09-12 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • jevolution · github · 2026-09-26 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • Pacman AI · hn · 2026-06-11 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • Cariora · ph · 2026-10-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • brewery-ai · github · 2026-10-04 · 198 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • ai-girlfriend-v2 · github · 2026-09-19 · 36 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • ai-girlfriend-pc · github · 2026-09-26 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • PetFit · ph · 2026-10-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49

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