Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I'm Junaid, a college student from India with zero budget and a simple frustration — chess platforms like Chess.com and Lichess are amazing but entirely in English. India has 50+ million chess players. We produced Viswanathan Anand, Praggnanandhaa and Gukesh — world class champions. But my cousins in smaller towns couldn't even navigate the interface. My grandmother knows shatranj but never played online in her life. So I spent 3 months building IndiaMate 🇮🇳♟️ What I built with zero budget: → Live multiplayer against real global players → 20 level AI opponent named Maya → Daily puzzles updated every day → Full Hindi, Tamil, Telugu & Kannada UI → Elo rating system like real chess → 100% free — no paywalls ever Tech stack for the curious: Next.js 14 + Socket.io + Supabase + Tailwind ⚠️ Honest warning — it runs on free hosting so first load takes ~20 seconds. Please wait for it — worth it I promise 😄 I would love brutal honest feedback from this community. What should I build next? What is broken? What would make you switch from Chess.com? Ask me anything — I will reply to every single comment today 🙏 Play free at indiamate.onrender.com

IndiaMate

Free chess platform for India in Hindi, Tamil & Telugu

Free chess platform for India in Hindi, Tamil & Telugu

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I built a chess website in 3 months. Here's what nobody tells you about..

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I built a chess website in 3 months. Here's what nobody tells you about..