Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to The Lift
A retro elevator puzzle built in 7 days with AI
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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2022 · dogbunnypuzzle.com · its alternatives →
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LiftmyCV▲521Hey HN! Dan Zaitsev here – solopreneur and maker of LiftmyCV, an AI job search agent that finds relevant job openings and auto-applies on your behalf. In early 2024, my small marketing team started losing clients due to the rise of AI tools. So I began searching for a job myself and was reminded how frustrating and inefficient the process is – surfing dozens of job platforms, filling out endless forms, and receiving very few responses. I started using ChatGPT to speed up the process and realized it could be automated. That’s how LiftmyCV was born. I built a simple prototype, launched it to a…
2025 · liftmycv.com · its alternatives →
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This is the first iteration of a short game I’m making that tries to interactively explain some of my favorite math questions / ideas. My goal is mostly to get the player curious and not necessarily to explain absolutely everything. There were a lot of fun technical parts to building this: - For implementation reasons, it’s much easier if the lines all have integer intersection points with each other. To do this, when a new line is added I “cheat” by rounding intersections to integers and then splitting the old lines at the intersection into new linds (with potentially different slopes)…
2024 · rahulilango.com · its alternatives →
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Floor Plan▲69Puzzle adventure game that takes place in an elevator
2016 · turbo-button.com · its alternatives →
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TheElevatorGame.com Results! (Turn your idea into an experience - Part 2b) Motivation Do you know what an elevator is? Have you been in one? If so, you’ve likely encountered one of the things that...
2012 · joshrweinstein.com · its alternatives →
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Elevator Boy▲88You're an elevator operator. Swipe up, swipe down.
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hello, HN - I wanted to share this puzzle game I made during my vacation. I'm rather fond of the pipes puzzle where your goal is to restore a scrambled network of connections by rotating tiles. It's usually played on a grid of squares and this all started when I decided to make a programmatic solver for that kind of puzzle. Then I realized that with some minor changes the solver could generate new puzzle instances. I thought about what kind of puzzle to make and someone suggested a hexagonal grid. Adapting the generator wasn't too hard but then I had to create a way to play this variant. So…
2022 · hexapipes.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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2015 · goelevator.com · its alternatives →
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Swapple - A daily puzzle game where you transform patterns by swapping rows and columns. Challenge yourself to solve it in as few moves as possible!
2025 · swapple.fuglede.dk · its alternatives →
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Made by a couple with passion for vintage and retro games :)
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Puzzle Swap▲62A calming game where you switch tiles to reveal an image
2019 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · michaelfogleman.com · its alternatives →
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Yet It Moves▲60Puzzle-platformer where you can rotate the world. Literally.
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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The Way▲74A 2D puzzle platformer with a retro feel
2016 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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Hello, In 2010 I made an open-ended programming game based on Befunge and Brainf*k. I was young and didn't know what I was doing - coding it in AutoIT of all things and using borderless windows for sprites. Nevertheless, it was a full game and some people actually played it, sharing solutions with each other. I took it as a sign that the game had some potential - I appreciated this very much at the time. It was zachlike at its core, except that it came out earlier than SpaceChem and the term hadn't been coined yet. Years passed, I worked in the game industry, had some fun, learned a few…
2025 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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Lift App▲11Make incremental progress every day to reach your goals.
2014 · lift.do · its alternatives →
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Lock & Key▲75Enjoy a game of riddles that is both fun and challenging.
2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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