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24 alternatives to I made a digital watch from scratch
The germ, so to speak, for Timestop and the D-20 watch came out of the pandemic. I was running a makerspace, playing D&D, and doing some small electronics projects with my kids. I was spending a lot of time with people who liked games and making things. The initial idea was extremely broad: some
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. I made a digital watch from scratch launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Here's a "behind-the-scenes" look at my development of a cool sensor during my PhD (electrical engineering). This sensor is only about 1/3 of my total research for my degree and took about a year. I've been on HN for a while now and I've seen my fair share of posts about the woes of pursuing a PhD. Now that I'm done with mine I wanna share some anecdotal evidence that doing a PhD can actually be enjoyable (not necessarily easy) and also be doable in 3 years. When I started I knew I didn't want to work on something that would never leave the lab or languish in a dissertation PDF no one…
2024 · paulbupejr.com · its alternatives →
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I've seen some interests in (simulation) video games here on HN so I thought I'd share a short version of our story. More than 6 years ago, me and my friend from university were playing around with an idea of making a game we always wanted to play. We worked on it on weekends but the progress was quite slow, especially due to so many dead ends and wasted effort. Eventually however, we solidified our direction and decided to take the risk to resign from our well paid SWE jobs and work on it full time. It took more than a year but yesterday we have finally released it on Steam:…
2022 · its alternatives →
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Craft your own unique Pandemic experience over 12 months
2015 · zmangames.com · its alternatives →
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2 sites already link to corporate.watch, after 1 years online. Listed at $100 — keep the equity.
2025 · corporate.watch · its alternatives →
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Analog Watch▲107A minigame where you read 3 analog clocks as fast as you can. Daily challenges and freeplay modes.
Jul 2026 · analog.watch · its alternatives →
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Hello all! Build clean, minimalistic analog clock webpage to Cloudflare Pages. This is for (maybe): - kids to learn - for second monitor - old tabled on shelf - .. Themes and screen wake lock buttons with auto-hide. Goal is to keep it as clean as possible. This possible makes no sense, but for a domain of $10/y this is cheap site for me to keep and see how it lives on.
Feb 2026 · clocksimulator.com · its alternatives →
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My personal Substack. Click to read Jen’s Substack, a Substack publication. Launched 3 years ago.
2020 · thedorkweb.substack.com · its alternatives →
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This was a project I built for my daughter's first birthday present. For context, I'm a surgical resident in the UK by background and am currently taking a year out of training to study a masters in computer science. My daughter just turned one. There are two things she really loves: the first is particular soft toy that she just can't live without, and the other is a good story book. Her grandparents live hours away and I didn't want her to forget what they sound like between visits. I wanted her to hear them whenever she missed them. My parents brought my brother and I up with incredible…
Apr 2026 · storyfriend.co.uk · its alternatives →
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THUNDERBIRDS▲60A new co-operative board game from the creator of Pandemic
2015 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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history, original reportage, & personal exploration
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Like writing a series of adventure books
2016 · gadgetsprimer.com · its alternatives →
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Detects if you remembered to wear your mask. Made with love by AE Studio.
2020 · doctormasky.com · its alternatives →
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I've never posted on ShowHN before, but I wanted to share my Xmas 2025 project; to try a new approach to controlling our kids screen time. This also involved massively over-engineering a solution in order to play with a shiny new gadget (and avoid the in laws at Christmas, obviously) I've shared some learnings on AI coding with embedded devices, and how I approached the product design/hardware selection side of things. The Web App is at https://screenie.org - and I'm Open Sourcing the device and web app code later today (links to follow on that site)
Jan 2026 · partridge.works · its alternatives →
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Contribute to pmerolla/watch-life development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I'm a father of two, 7 and 12. They are obsessed with Roblox, especially Rivals. Like a lot of parents, we did not love it. We tried the usual things: block it, limit it, set timers." It became a daily battle, a lose-lose situation. So I flipped the problem. Instead of fighting what they loved, I decided to lean into it, but with a twist. Why just play an FPS when you could build one together? My kids became the PMs. Claude and I became their engineer. I was shocked by how fast we moved. We picked a name, Cooked and started building. Get in. Lock in. Get cooked! In the first 3 hours, we had…
Jul 2026 · cooked.house · its alternatives →
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Generate vaccines, earn money & upgrade your factory.
2021 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Inspired by our fascination with time.
2020 · sovrygnwatches.com · its alternatives →
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