I made a game about the 3k-year evolution of Chinese characters
Strong launch
Beat 89% of Show HN launches that day
#10 of 92 on Oct 31
#3 of 6 Games & Entertainment launches on Show HN on Oct 31. 4.3% of Games & Entertainment launches (2 of 47) reached 10+ points in the last 7 days. See Games & Entertainment →
points · traction gained Nov 6, 17:32 UTC → Nov 7, 13:58 UTC
Traction frozen — tracking ended at 165h after listing. Show HN votes are re-read for ~168h.
comments
listed Oct 31, 17:18 UTC
Traction (points) over time
Key statistics
- Traction
- 5points
- Comments
- 2
- Rank in GAME this week
- —not listed in the last 7 days
- Rank overall this week
- —
- Sector hit rate
- 4.3%2/47 · 7D
- Traction line
- Below10+ points
- First reading
- 4Nov 1, 16:17 UTC
- Last reading
- 5Nov 7, 13:58 UTC
- Readings
- 6over 165h
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Top on Oct 31 · 92 Show HN launches that day, by points
- #1A language model that lives in a boot sector109 points
- #2I rebuilt my old canvas 3D library as a small WebGL 2 libraryphoria2107 points
- #3NES Contra (1987) port (ASM –> C and then C –> WebAssembly)93 points
- #4A USB-C LTE modem that gives my computer a phone line62 points
- #5Quit everything to make one website20 points
More in Games & Entertainment · top Show HN launches, last 7 days
- Ghanaian street games you can play in the browser115 points0
- Fable52.gamesPlay and inspect Fable 5.2 single-file HTML games68 points▲ +68
- My daily word puzzle Jointter revisited9 points0
- Jigwise, free jigsaw puzzles in the browser8 points▲ +8
- Totle, daily math puzzle game; Saturday puzzles have the fewest answers7 points0
Grades · each graded against other Games & Entertainment launches from the same source
Momentum
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Traction gained in the latest daily interval
Not re-read in the latest run, so no recent gain
Velocity
A0.10 points/h
Votes per hour since listing (age capped at 48h)
Better than 84% · vs 248 Games & Entertainment · Show HN launches, last 30 days
Engagement
——
Comments per 10 points
Needs 10+ points; below that the ratio is mostly noise
Staying Power
——
Votes at last reading ÷ votes at first reading
Needs 10+ points and readings from two runs
Launch-day race · #10 of 92 Show HN launches on 2026-10-31
- #8Agent-arcade6 points
- #9Winch5 points
- #10I made a game about the 3k-year evolution of Chinese characters5 points
- #11CodeConnect4 points
- #12I built a crawler that finds personal websites by a /.well-known/josh4 points
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