Mall Bats, a nostalgic tycoon game with a twitst
Launched Mall Bats, a nostalgic tycoon game with a twitst? Get the free weekly brief →
Quiet launch
Beat 21% of Show HN launches that day
#75 of 109 on Nov 6
#9 of 10 Games & Entertainment launches on Show HN on Nov 6. 4.3% of Games & Entertainment launches (2 of 47) reached 10+ points in the last 7 days. See Games & Entertainment →
points · traction gained Nov 11, 10:42 UTC → Nov 12, 10:31 UTC · % shown only when the previous traction was 5+
Traction frozen — tracking ended at 147h after listing. Show HN votes are re-read for ~168h.
comments
listed Nov 6, 07:40 UTC
Traction (points) over time
Key statistics
- Traction
- 2points
- Comments
- 0
- 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
- 2Nov 6, 17:32 UTC
- Last reading
- 2Nov 12, 10:31 UTC
- Readings
- 7over 147h
Get the launches that broke through, every Tuesday.
2 of 47 Games & Entertainment launches on Show HN reached 10+ points over the last 7 days. The weekly brief shows what they did differently, so you can compare Mall Bats, a nostalgic tycoon game with a twitst.
Free, every Tuesday. Unsubscribe anytime.
Top on Nov 6 · 109 Show HN launches that day, by points
- #1CloneGuardScan a repo for credential-stealing tricks before it runs31 points
- #2Agents infer Lego mechanisms from sources, then animate them31 points
- #3Agentic Identity Broker, OAuth Delegation for AI Agents25 points
- #4An open source webbluetooth and NFC browser for iOS15 points
- #5AegisKernelZero-trust POSIX runtime for AI agents in <0.016ms14 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
——
Traction gained in the latest daily interval
Not re-read in the latest run, so no recent gain
Velocity
C0.04 points/h
Votes per hour since listing (age capped at 48h)
Better than 48% · 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 · #75 of 109 Show HN launches on 2026-11-06
- #73flashjson2 points
- #74Hackercasts2 points
- #75Mall Bats, a nostalgic tycoon game with a twitst2 points
- #76Stitch.ai2 points
- #77Document parsing 5B tokens on a single CPU thread2 points
Maker? Add your website and we will link it from this page.
Discussion
No comments yet. Open on Hacker News →
Keep going
- #76 of 109 on Nov 6Stitch.ai →
- Case studyHow HackerBooks reached 1,861 points on Show HN with a five-word pitch →
- Case studyHow "Steal My Bitcoin" turned a two-word dare into the #1 Show HN of the week →
- CategoryGames & Entertainment: supply, hit rate, top launches →
Every Tuesday: the launches that broke through and the categories heating up. Get the free weekly brief →
Data as of Nov 13, 2026, 9:22 AM UTC. Sector comes from keyword rules on the title and tagline and can be wrong. How it works