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24 alternatives to Waiting for LLMs Suck – Give your user a game

Give your user a game while they wait for the LLM to return a result.

Waiting for LLMs Suck is a tool that displays a game to users while their application processes requests from a large language model. Designed for developers building AI-powered applications, it fills the gap between… 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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Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue▲386
A 60-second game about LLM permission fatigue. Claude Code needs your approval — but are you really reading the commands?
May 2026 · llmgame.scalex.dev · its alternatives →
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Freeplay▲184
Ship great products with LLMs, now in public beta
2023 · freeplay.ai · its alternatives →
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waitforit▲637
Turn your groupchat into a sportsbook 📖
2024 · waitforit.me · its alternatives →
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BenchLLM by V7▲133
Test-driven development for LLMs
2023 · benchllm.com · its alternatives →
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Snowglobe▲456
Simulate real users to test your AI before launch
2025 · guardrailsai.com · its alternatives →
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LLMWare▲358
Dev tool to make AI apps to deploy privately or locally
2024 · llmware.ai · its alternatives →
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Tiny LLMs – Browser-based private AI models for a wide array of tasks▲142
2023 · tinyllms.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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LLMs Playing Mafia games – See them lie, deceive, and reason▲42
2025 · mafia.opennumbers.xyz · its alternatives →
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Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment)▲436
I spent a few hours last weekend testing whether AI can replace code by executing directly. Built a contact manager where every HTTP request goes to an LLM with three tools: database (SQLite), webResponse (HTML/JSON/JS), and updateMemory (feedback). No routes, no controllers, no business logic. The AI designs schemas on first request, generates UIs from paths alone, and evolves based on natural language feedback. It works—forms submit, data persists, APIs return JSON—but it's catastrophically slow (30-60s per request), absurdly expensive ($0.05/request), and has zero UI…
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play▲220
I've liked all the projects that put LLMs into game environments. It's been a weird juxtaposition, though: frontier LLMs can one-shot full coding projects, and those same models struggle to get out of Pokémon Red's Mt. Moon. Because of this, I wanted to create a game environment that put this generation of frontier LLMs' top skill, coding, on full display. Ten years ago, a team released a game called Screeps. It was described as an "MMO RTS sandbox for programmers." The Screeps paradigm of writing code and having it executed in a real-time game environment is well suited to LLMs. Drawing on…
Feb 2026 · llmskirmish.com · its alternatives →
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Gradient Bang▲173
Massively multi-player game played by talking to an LLM
May 2026 · gradient-bang.com · its alternatives →
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LLM plays Pokémon (open sourced)▲186
I built a bot that plays Pokémon FireRed. It can explore, battle, and respond to game events. Farthest I made it was Viridian Forest. I paused development a couple months ago, but given the launch of ClaudePlaysPokemon, decided to open source!
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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LLM Prompt & Model Playground▲89
Test LLM prompts & models side-by-side against many inputs
2024 · its alternatives →
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Map with an LLM▲76
Christmas project from a personal need to find ideal locations.
2024 · godview.ai · its alternatives →
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Your AI Slop Bores Me▲17
When the LLM so ahh you lowk take over its job
Mar 2026 · youraislopbores.me · its alternatives →
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Create LLM graders and run evals in JavaScript with one file▲28
Hi HN! Run it: OPENROUTER_API_KEY="sk" npx bff-eval --demo We built a tool to help people take LLM outputs and easily grade them / eval them to know how good an assistant response is. We've built a number of LLM apps, and while we could ship decent tech demos, we were disappointed with how they'd perform over time. We worked with a few companies who had the same problem, and found out scientifically building prompts and evals is far from a solved problem... writing these things feels more like directing a play than coding. Inspired by Anthropic's constitutional ai concepts, and amazing…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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LLM Arena – a text-based game that explores the possibilities of LLMs▲5
The initial idea for the game came during the final day of Game AI school in Cambridge. There, we had a Jam where we explored the idea of using LLMs as a game engine for fights. We then built a full web version in just a week. There is no need to register or pay to play. Test it out!
2023 · llmarena.com · its alternatives →
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LLM Clash▲10
Have your LLM debate other LLMs in real-time!
2024 · its alternatives →
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LLMxLLM - A dumb Reddit simulator▲7
Hilarious reddit simulator / AI slop generator for everyone
Nov 2025 · its alternatives →
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GameGame – an LLM to resolve conflicts in board games▲8
I wanted to learn more about RAG implementations, so I built something to solve the constant digging through manuals whenever we play a game. It's fairly simplistic, but actually has worked pretty well for some of these conflicts. Everythings Open Source on GitHub if you're curious (or have ideas), and I'd love to hear feedback from fellow boardgamers!
2024 · gamegame.ai · its alternatives →
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LLMs suck at writing integration code… for now▲20
Hi HN! Stefan here from superglue and today I’d like to share a new benchmark we’ve just open sourced: an Agent-API Benchmark, in which we test how well LLMs handle APIs. We gave LLMs API documentation and asked them to write code that makes actual API calls. Things like "create a Stripe customer" or "send a Slack message". We're not testing if they can use SDKs; we're testing if they can write raw HTTP requests (with proper auth, headers, body formatting) that actually work when executed against real API endpoints and can extract relevant information from that response. tl:dr: LLMs suck at…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Automated red teaming for your LLM app▲23
Hi HN, I built this open-source LLM red teaming tool based on my experience scaling LLMs at a big co to millions of users... and seeing all the bad things people did. How it works: - Uses an unaligned model to create toxic inputs - Runs these inputs through your app using different techniques: raw, prompt injection, and a chain-of-thought jailbreak that tries to re-frame the request to trick the LLM. - Probes a bunch of other failure cases (e.g. will your customer support bot recommend a competitor? Does it think it can process a refund when it can't? Will it leak your user's address?) -…
2024 · promptfoo.dev · its alternatives →
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LLM, a Rust Crate/CLI for CPU Inference of LLMs (LLaMA, GPT-NeoX, etc.)▲45
G'day, HN! I'm one of the maintainers of `llm`. I've been working alongside a trusty group of contributors to bring this project to life, and we're now at a point where we're ready to share it with the world. Large language models (LLMs) are taking the computing world by storm due to their emergent abilities that allow them to perform a wide variety of tasks, including translation, summarization, code generation, and even some degree of reasoning. However, the ecosystem around LLMs is still in its infancy, and it can be difficult to get started with these models. `llm` is a one-stop shop for…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Chat LLMs▲17
Engage in free conversations with advanced LLMs.
2025 · chats-llm.com · its alternatives →

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