Infinite Swap – Trade a bottle cap up to a house
Hey HN, Infinite Swap is a game inspired by Kyle MacDonald’s One Red Paperclip and other bigger-and-better swap stories - you start with a green bottle cap and trade it with other characters in various locations all the way up to a house and beyond. A while ago I got inspired by viral games Infinite Craft and What Beats Rock? and wanted to make my own ‘exploring a LLM’s latent space’ style challenge. After much experimentation this became a trading style game, where the LLM comes up with all the items, trading scenarios and value estimates, which ended up being surprisingly fun and somewhat…
Infinite Swap – Trade a bottle cap up to a house launched on May 16, 2026 with 8 votes, #1,430 of 20,538 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
Start with a bottle cap. End with anything. A single-player trading game where every item, character, and offer is generated live by AI.
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hey HN, Infinite Swap is a game inspired by Kyle MacDonald’s One Red Paperclip and other bigger-and-better swap stories - you start with a green bottle cap and trade it with other characters in various locations all the way up to a house and beyond. A while ago I got inspired by viral games Infinite Craft and What…
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