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Startup Simulator
AI-generated startup sim survive one year as a founder
Run a startup for one year. Every week you get four choices — raise, hire, ship, or gamble — and live with the fallout. The scenes and your ending are AI-generated, so every playthrough is a different company with its own story. Free, in-browser, English & Chinese.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I built Startup Simulator because most "business sims" are spreadsheets in disguise. I wanted something that feels like living a founder's year — the bad weeks, the lucky breaks, the slow-motion mistakes.
Here's the twist: it's AI-generated. The weekly scenes and your final ending are written on the fly from the choices you actually made — so it's never the same company twice. Survive a year and you get a shareable "startup report card." Burn out, run out of cash, or lose your cofounder, and… well, you get that ending instead.
- 🗓️ One year, ~53 weeks, four choices each
- 🤖 AI-generated scenes + a personalized ending unique to your run
- 🆓 Free, runs in the browser, no signup
- 🌏 English & 中文
It's a solo side project (brand: Honest Games / 老实游戏). Would genuinely love feedback on the writing and the difficulty — what killed your company? 🪦
About Startup Simulator on Product Hunt
“AI-generated startup sim survive one year as a founder”
Startup Simulator was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #76 on the daily leaderboard. Run a startup for one year. Every week you get four choices — raise, hire, ship, or gamble — and live with the fallout. The scenes and your ending are AI-generated, so every playthrough is a different company with its own story. Free, in-browser, English & Chinese.
On the analytics side, Startup Simulator competes within Word Games, Simulation Games and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 478k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Startup Simulator performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
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