POCKET STARTUP
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Founder Sim
A startup simulator you play in your browser. You start with an idea, a laptop and a few months of savings. Can you get to an IPO before the money runs out?
Play freeNo download, no sign-up. Works on your phone and your laptop.
Every run is a new company. Here is how one usually goes.
Type a real idea or tap Surprise me. An AI rates it and sets up your market: how many people might buy, how quickly they leave, how hard the big deals are.
Your founder does one task at a time and you pick the next one: build, research, find leads, sell, answer support, fix bugs, take a consulting gig for cash, or rest.
Small teams, mid-size companies and enterprises want different things. Ship what each group asks for and fewer of them leave.
Bring on a team, then raise a round when the runway gets short. Each round buys time and costs you part of the company.
Reach $1M in monthly revenue and you can go public. Or sell, get fired by your own board, or run out of cash on a Tuesday.
Most tycoon games hide the numbers. This one tells you why things happen, so a bad month is something you can fix next time.
Tap it next to churn, deal odds or prices and see what each one is made of.
Decisions wait in your inbox with a deadline. Miss it and the default choice is made for you.
Long days raise stress. Sleep helps a little, rest helps a lot. Push too hard and you lose two days to burnout.
Past $100k a month you pick three legacy goals. Later come the bosses: a big-tech rival, a market that stops growing and an activist board.
Yes. It runs in your browser and costs nothing to play.
No. Open the page and play. Your company is saved in your browser on this device, so clearing your browser data deletes it.
Yes. It was made for phones first. On a laptop or desktop you get a wider layout with the office in the middle.
Yes. An AI reads your idea to rate it and set up your market, so the text you type is sent to it for that.
The game has its own idea rater and events, so it keeps working without the AI.
Until you go public, sell the company, get fired by your board, or run out of money. You can speed time up to 5x.
