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freshers.dev is a satirical daily career roguelike for developers. Sign in with GitHub, survive recruiters, layoffs, hype and burnout, then compare your ending on daily and all-time leaderboards. Play on the web or directly inside VS Code.
Hi Product Hunt,
I built freshers.dev because developer career advice often feels either too serious or too generic. I wanted to turn recruiters, equity, layoffs, hype, and burnout into a short daily game instead.
Sign in with GitHub, get a developer character, make a series of questionable career decisions, and compare your ending on the daily and all-time leaderboards. I also shipped a VS Code extension because apparently career anxiety belongs beside the code.
The game is free. I am launching it here as an experiment to find out whether people enjoy it enough to come back for another run.
I would especially value feedback on three things: Does the GitHub personalization justify the sign-in? Would you play again tomorrow? Does the VS Code extension feel useful or just amusing?
this looks super fun honestly, the vs code integration is a nice touch. one thing though, could you add some kind of team mode where a small group of friends can go through the same daily run together and compare how each person survived? would make it way more shareable and honestly way more brutal when your coworker outlives you.
Could you explain this more a bit, i like the problem of career advice being too serious or too generic. Would love to know what does your product exactly does. thank you!
the vs code version is a fun touch, fired it up between deploys and the recruiter spam actually got a chuckle out of me
One of the most interesting concepts I have come across. We usually get the same generic career advice, but this game makes you think through the important career decisions you’ll eventually face. Loved this game. 🙌
One tip: low-key, focus on equity and skills (both in the game and in the real game 😄 🙌) CC rocks 🚀
About freshers.dev on Product Hunt
“Your developer career, turned into a daily game”
freshers.dev was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 8 upvotes and 9 comments, placing #46 on the daily leaderboard. freshers.dev is a satirical daily career roguelike for developers. Sign in with GitHub, survive recruiters, layoffs, hype and burnout, then compare your ending on daily and all-time leaderboards. Play on the web or directly inside VS Code.
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