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24 alternatives to Subway Surfers in Your Terminal
Tired of losing focus when waiting for codegen to finish? Now you can enhance your concentration by integrating subway surfers into your workflow. brew tap evanreilly/subway-surfers brew install subway-surfers Usage subway-surfers
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hello HN! As a long term NYC resident, I have read countless articles on ideas tweaking subway services, but always found them hard to follow without visual aid. So over the long weekend I decided to build one. It has all the basic features: trains would spawn at their origin, stop at stations, and slow down if it gets too close to another. You can also design custom routes by piecing tracks together. Have fun, and let me know what you think!
2025 · buildmytransit.nyc · its alternatives →
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A controllable AI soundscape for productivity
2022 · app.adjust.com · its alternatives →
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ExtraBar▲152Hey Hacker News The ones that know me here know that I am a productivity geek. After DockFlow to manage my Dock and ExtraDock, which gives me more space to manage my apps and files, I decided to tackle the macOS big boss: the menu bar. I spend ~40% of my day context-switching between apps — Zoom meetings, Slack channels, Code projects, and Figma designs. My macOS menu bar has too many useless icons I almost never use. So I thought to myself, how can I use this area to improve my workflows? Most solutions (Bartender, Ice) require screen recording permissions, and did not really solve my…
Dec 2025 · extrabar.app · its alternatives →
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TermHere▲147“Open Terminal Here” shortcut for Finder
2016 · hashbang.productions · its alternatives →
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Bentomux▲76A bento box for your terminal workspace.
21d ago · bentomux.takora.dev · its alternatives →
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Tap Tap Tap▲106I’ve been working on a new Go library called Tap: https://github.com/yarlson/tap. It’s a Go port of the TypeScript library Clack https://clack.cc/, bringing its simple, interactive command-line prompts to Go. Why: I often found myself rewriting input handling, spinners, and progress bars when building CLI tools. Existing options in Go felt either too barebones or too heavyweight. Tap aims to provide a middle ground: ergonomic, event-driven prompts with minimal dependencies. What works today: - Text and password input - Confirm and single-select menus…
2024 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Ritmica▲100VS code music plugin to increase concentration during coding
2022 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →
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Save your favorite prompts for instant one-click reuse
2024 · gabrielaguinaga.com · its alternatives →
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AI chat & Instagram templates
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Focused▲64The new browser tab page that helps you stay focused
2018 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Bindly▲76Hi HN, I’m a product designer by background, not a traditional software engineer. Over the last year, tools like Claude and ChatGPT completely changed how I work. I started with small internal tools, and now I’m “vibe coding” multiple highly personalized apps. As I iterated between Claude Code (implementation) and ChatGPT (ideation / thinking), I kept running into the same problem. To think clearly, I had to repeatedly re-explain: - what the code currently does, - what changed recently, - and why certain decisions were made. That re-summarization step became a real bottleneck. So I…
2016 · bind.ly · its alternatives →
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New York City Subway Signalling and Interlocking Simulator
2015 · nycsubway.org · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, We participated at the Mozilla WSOH (http://wsoh.eventbrite.com/) over the summer. It was a hackathon organized by Mozilla for interns all over Silicon Valley with an attendance of over 300+ interns from Facebook, Google, etc. A friend and I made SurfControl and were the winners of the hackathon. We just pushed our product live and would love to get feedback! ------------- About SurfControl: "SurfControl is an add-on that shows you how you waste time online, and gives you tools to block or limit your time spent on different websites." It is a Firefox add-on and can be downloaded at…
2011 · wsoh.eventbrite.com · its alternatives →
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