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Show HN: I made a Jackbox-style tower defense game where trivia earns you gold

https://couchslop.com/tower
1•dblhumbucker•58m ago
My friends and I have always loved a party game to end the night. So, the day after I decided to quit my job, I started building a Jackbox-style game site just for us. The name... couchslop.

As the name suggests, the idea behind couchslop is to create a playable game as fast as possible, then iterate on it until it's actually fun. The first game, Crystal Ridge Defense, is a multiplayer tower defense game where your team defends against waves of ships (psst, one person can play the villain and send ships at everyone else). Open it on whatever is plugged into your TV and everyone scans in to use their phone as a controller. To afford towers, you earn gold by answering trivia and playing mini-games (a potato horse race and a Family Feud parody).

If you want to try it with friends, open https://couchslop.com/tower on whatever is connected to your TV. Hit "How to play" in the lobby first: it walks everyone through it on their phones in about 3 minutes.

or

If you're alone at your desk and just want to see how it works, open this secret link (shhh) and join from your phone. Bot teammates will fill the empty seats. https://couchslop.com/tower/host?solo

It's been a lot of fun playing with coworkers and friends. I even made a special edition for my friend's bachelor party, with trivia the guests wrote about the groom. That turned into selling custom editions for $9.99. The game itself is free, no ads, no sign-up.

I'd love some feedback, especially from anyone who plays it in a group and I am happy to share how it works under the hood.

An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIMXEuT_ZAU
1•ptrhvns•3m ago•0 comments

IBM's Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (2003)

https://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/ssec.html
1•goshtasb•3m ago•0 comments

Ukrainian drones swarmed Moscow last night

https://twitter.com/actfast/status/2107691638151950741
1•znnajdla•3m ago•0 comments

DatCal

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=datyaltech.android.familycal&hl=en
1•makdatyal•4m ago•0 comments

LC-3 Assembly Tutor-AI tutor that explains what the machine is doing

https://ai-assembly-tutor-v2-9a6d593b-1.telnyxcompute.com/
1•harpreetseehra•5m ago•0 comments

Open source 160 sound visualization experiments

https://www.kagan.in/iwrzwr/visual-archive/
2•kaganin•6m ago•0 comments

My static site was serving my internal docs

https://tminuslabs.space/serving-secrets
1•tminuslabs•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Trigora – durable execution without history replay

https://github.com/trigora-dev/trigora
1•hypervs•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app

https://bigwords.page/
1•SpeakingOfBrad•8m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Luke – Voice planning for coding agents

https://tryluke.dev/
2•cpan22•8m ago•0 comments

AsyncAPI Initiative

https://www.asyncapi.com/en
1•saikatsg•9m ago•0 comments

Nokia-style Android launcher – Simple Dumbphone

https://nokiaretrophone.mr-ahhk1412.chatgpt.site/
1•ahhk•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Srl – Angular-style web components with no build step

https://github.com/BernardoGiordano/srl
1•berngiordano•10m ago•0 comments

Redundancy Is the Engine of Progress

https://world.hey.com/dhh/redundancy-is-the-engine-of-progress-76499402
1•gpi•10m ago•0 comments

Boredpolymath/Truth-Beacon

https://github.com/boredpolymath/truth-beacon
1•boredpolymath•10m ago•0 comments

Morning Coffee Simulator

https://coffee.9000ish.uk/
2•gregsadetsky•12m ago•0 comments

Thank You Indonesia for the Clean Air

https://thankyouindoforthecleanair.web.app/
2•water-drummer•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: The Last SaaS – An open source headless SaaS for agents and assistants

https://thelastsaas.com/
2•mkly•13m ago•0 comments

Training a small model to run a house

https://www.neelabhbuilds.com/writing/training-a-small-model-to-run-a-house
2•peaknk•13m ago•1 comments

Relay – A self-hosted alternative to AWS Lambda and EventBridge

https://github.com/sergiors/relay
2•sergiors•14m ago•1 comments

Bitcoin Spaces

https://bitsaga.be/insights/bitcoin-spaces
1•ca98am79•15m ago•0 comments

Configurable physical test lines for robot evaluation

https://www.datacompany.dev
1•jbuchananr•15m ago•0 comments

A search ecosystem built for AI agents

https://naget.com
1•csamarinas•16m ago•0 comments

Friday – A voice-activated personal AI companion built with Flutter

https://github.com/dj2313/jarvis_assistant
1•ddhruv2424•18m ago•0 comments

The Centre for Cryptographic Trust Infrastructure

https://martin.kleppmann.com/2026/10/07/centre-for-cryptographic-trust-infrastructure.html
1•mfrw•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Searchable AI agents built with a JSONC DSL

https://pypi.org/project/search2o/
1•ramvenkat11•19m ago•0 comments

'A Leter to a Hindu' by Leo Tolstoy, intro by Gandhi who was greatly influenced

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7176/7176-h/7176-h.htm
1•redwood•20m ago•0 comments

SF could have dense, fine-grained, family-friendly Neighborhood, Not Megaproject

https://urbancourtyard.substack.com/p/san-francisco-could-have-a-dense
2•idbnstra•20m ago•0 comments

Canada launches national council to advise on artificial intelligence

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/mark-carney-artificial-intelligence-council
1•rbanffy•23m ago•0 comments

AI firm HUMXN offers free plumbing and HVAC service in Minnesota to train robots

https://humxn.io/humxn-launches-free-home-service-program
17•brunomarsjams•24m ago•3 comments