{"slug": "show-hn-i-made-oregon-trail-for-founders-paste-your-company-url", "title": "Show HN: I made Oregon Trail for founders (paste your company URL)", "summary": "A new AI-generated game called Founder Trail simulates startup survival, allowing founders to paste their company URL and watch an AI-driven narrative unfold with permanent death. The game, created by the thread.app team, offers difficulty levels from bootstrap to Stanford dropout and features a global leaderboard.", "body_md": "SFX:ON\nTYPE:ON\nLB\nFOUNDER TRAIL\nA STARTUP SURVIVAL SIMULATOR\nEVERY PLAYTHROUGH IS AI-GENERATED. EVERY DEATH IS PERMANENT.\nI'M A FOUNDER — PASTE URL\nDESCRIBE YOUR IDEA\nSURPRISE ME\nLEADERBOARD\nTODAY\nALL TIME\nLOADING\nENTER YOUR COMPANY URL\nLAUNCH →\n← BACK\nDESCRIBE YOUR STARTUP IDEA\nLAUNCH →\n← BACK\nANALYZING YOUR LIFE CHOICES\nYOU ARE THE COFOUNDER OF\nCHOOSE YOUR DIFFICULTY:\nHARD\n— BOOTSTRAP\nCredit card debt and delusion. 2x score.\nNORMAL\n— FIRST-TIME FOUNDER\nSmall angel round. One warm intro. 1x score.\nEASY\n— REPEAT FOUNDER\nVCs take your call. You still have PTSD. 0.7x score.\nEASY+\n— STANFORD DROPOUT\na16z pre-seeded you at a party. 0.4x score.\nBEGIN THE TRAIL →\nAI AUTOPILOT ENGAGED — WATCHING YOUR STARTUP IMPLODE IN REAL TIME\nTURN 1 / 16\nRUNWAY\n12\nHYPE\n40\nUSERS\n10\nMORALE\n70\nLET AI RUN MY STARTUP\nSUBMIT TO GLOBAL LEADERBOARD\nSUBMIT\nRETRY\nNEW COMPANY\nDOWNLOAD CARD\nSHARE X\nSHARE LI\nLEADERBOARD — HALL OF FAME / SHAME\nGLOBAL\nMY RUNS\n← BACK\nCLEAR MY HISTORY\nMade in jest by the\nthread.app\nteam. No startups were harmed in the making of this game.\n(Several were roasted.)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-i-made-oregon-trail-for-founders-paste-your-company-url", "canonical_source": "https://foundertrail.vercel.app/", "published_at": "2026-06-16 17:37:45+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-16 17:49:36.970435+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "generative-ai", "ai-tools", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["thread.app", "Founder Trail", "a16z"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-i-made-oregon-trail-for-founders-paste-your-company-url", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-i-made-oregon-trail-for-founders-paste-your-company-url.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-i-made-oregon-trail-for-founders-paste-your-company-url.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-i-made-oregon-trail-for-founders-paste-your-company-url.jsonld"}}