Show HN: place-clone – A nostalgic revisiting of r/place

Show HN: place-clone – A nostalgic revisiting of r/place(github.com)

1 points by chabes 46 days ago | 1 comment

Hi HN.

Tl;dr: An attempt was made to build a remake of the original r/place. The repo is now public, and I'd love feedback, contributions, and the like. Demo (very much alpha) is here: https://chabes.neocities.org/place/

This is a hobby project I have been playing with for a few days. It is an llm-assisted attempt at a nostalgic clone of the 2017 April Fools (9 years ago today) reddit experiment r/place[1][2]. My intention is to have a working version by the 10 year anniversary coming up a year from today.

A demo can be interacted with here: https://chabes.neocities.org/place/

I don't expect this to get huge traction on HN, but please don't hug to death, regardless. It is semi-functional, but very rough around the edges.

That's basically it. Try the demo. Repo is open for contributions. Let me know if you have any questions!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/place

[2] https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit-plugin-place-openso...

chabes 46 days ago |

This is my first Show HN submission.

A little background: I have no formal computer science training (I am a horticulturist), and my experience comes mostly from playing with SBCs and microcontroller dev boards. The rise of llm-assisted workflows has enabled me to dabble deeper, but I am still very much an amateur, so I benefit from human eyes on this stuff as well.