Show HN: A satirical idle game about running an AI startup (game.trae.academy)
I made an idle/clicker about running an AI startup. You start with a cat-vs-dog classifier and try to make it to AGI, but the NYT sues you for training data, Yann tweets that scaling is dead, and your fired ML engineer leaks the Slack.
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[ 4.0 ms ] story [ 19.6 ms ] thread- 'Step training' sucks because there is no way to do more than x0.1 at a time
- Launching with a store full of microtransactions when the game is puddle deep feels bad; everyone has to make money but having 4 microtransactions + 4 subscriptions while your research tree is only 9 steps makes this feel like a cashgrab rather than a game
- There's no clear way to buy hardware to improve
- The 'end game' is meaningless. There's no real reason to even play because there's no "Oh yeah!!!" feeling; it's purely just big numbers which I do love for idle games but there's no grand story that makes me feel powerful.
- There's absolutely no compelling reason to hire anyone because effectively you can just bum research, wait 5 to 10 minutes, click all the research then you just click 'step training' over and over then sell your company.