Launched this week
Run a software startup from a garage to an IPO. Ship features, squash bugs, hire a team (and a dog), survive the burn rate, and learn real SaaS metrics inc. MRR, churn, LTV, CAC, while a dry announcer narrates your every mistake. Free, in your browser, no signup required.
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Hi PH 👋
It's Theme Hospital meets RollerCoaster Tycoon, set in a lovingly legally-distinct San Francisco (Goggle, Chirper, Hacker Mews). The sim under the hood is real: raise prices and conversion drops, ship without QA and bugs breed, a rival will undercut you to "free, for now."
It's free, runs in the browser, no account. Every run has a seed you can share as a challenge. Would love your feedback! I'm here all day.
Happy Saturday!
@danielkempe Congrats on the launch !
The Theme Hospital and RollerCoaster Tycoon inspiration immediately caught my attention. I love games where every decision has real tradeoffs instead of just bigger numbers.
I'm curious, what's the funniest or most unexpected strategy you've seen players discover that completely broke your expectations? Those emergent moments are usually what make simulation games so memorable.
Wishing you an awesome launch and plenty of creative chaos! 🎮🔥
Curious how realistic the SaaS metrics actually get here — like does churn scale with the decisions you make or is it more of a fixed curve so you can learn the formulas without it feeling random?
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How deep does the simulation actually go on the metrics side - are churn and LTV calculated dynamically based on player decisions or do they follow fixed formulas?
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How long does a typical playthrough take, and does the dry announcer's commentary actually adapt based on the metrics you hit or is it kind of scripted throughout?
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the real sim under the hood is what turns a joke game into a compulsion loop. "ship without QA and bugs breed" should be the tagline of every SaaS post-mortem ever written.
real q: does the game track cumulative stats across runs, or is each seed a fresh start? asking because the deepest tycoon games are the ones where you learn a category-level rule ("never skip QA in month 3") and carry it into the next run.
As someone actually doing the startup thing, these games are either therapy or a personal attack, no in between. Does San Fran Sim model the boring failure modes (running out of runway, a cofounder walking, a launch that just flops quietly) or is it mostly the fun growth-curve fantasy? The unglamorous parts are the ones that would make me laugh.
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