The idea for this came from a comment on HN I read 6 months ago, where someone said: "I wish I could send a one-time link to my father where we could play chess against each other by re-visiting the same link" [1].

Of course lichess.org was mentioned, but it got me excited to build something simple with not too much scope creep. So that's what I tried to build: simple, without signup and supporting slow (make a move every week) or fast (sse based) games.

Built with PocketBase[2] (customized to f.e. support web push), chess.js[3] and Claude it rekindled my interest in chess and I started playing it offline again and shared some game invites with friends.

Hope some of you like it -> https://chessinvite.com

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43267296

[2] https://pocketbase.io

[3] https://github.com/jhlywa/chess.js