HN

Need help?
<- Back
Show HN: I recreated Papers Please but you're deciding which YC startups to fund

Show HN: I recreated Papers Please but you're deciding which YC startups to fund

bolau

Comments (69)

  • smlavine
    Doesn't credit the original creator at all in the actual website?
  • tiborsaas
    I found the document management way too confusing. There's no clear game loop and I'm kinda lost what signatures mean, what the other documents are what success is.Papers please has a much simple mental model.
  • Fraterkes
    Would be interesting if we could plot the average amount of time spent on the creation of showhn stuff that gets to the front page, over the past years.
  • exolymph
    Shameless plug, if you think this is funny you will also enjoy merging startups to create new fever-dream companies! https://studio.sonyasupposedly.com/startups/For example, Tailscale meets Supabase: https://studio.sonyasupposedly.com/startups/m/supabase+tails...
  • achandra03
    Maybe I'm stupid but I quit after 5 minutes because I had no idea what was going on with the documents.
  • jimbo456
    This incredible; i will have a lot of fun with this
  • rmah
    So nostalgic. I had fun declining founders because of their various frauds/schemes.
  • tuberreact
    damn at least here i can be post economic
  • logicallee
    This looks awesome! Playing it now. It's a really good idea.Edit: I looked at a few pitches, I thought they were very realistic. For the Pointer acquisition it only listed the requested round size, not the valuation, which I think is really important for investors. It didn't completely make sense to me why they would need an investment for an acquisition, but when a company gets an acquisition offer is a pretty good time to raise money.Feedback: I'd recommend using a different branding rather than Y, since YCombinator invests at the seed stage using standard terms, and doesn't make follow-on investments as far as I know. (I could be wrong.) It's better if you make it a hypothetical VC rather than use YC's branding.Game was very fun, thanks for making it.
  • contingencies
    Missing the music :)
  • butlike
    I mean, technically you didn't recreate anything. You had the LLM pattern recognize something that already existed and it copied it. I don't mean to sound harsh, but create something new.
  • slg
    This feels icky considering the topic of the original.