Term Sheet, Please - Papers Please-style YC funding simulator
Show HN: I recreated Papers Please but you're deciding which YC startups to fund
Term Sheet, Please is a browser game by Bo Lau that reimagines the cult classic Papers Please as a venture capital simulator. Set one day after Demo Day, you sit behind a desk as a YC-style investor, inspecting founder documents, clicking facts on each paper, and deciding whether to pass, fund, or hold the next startup. With its retro interface, time pressure, and decision sheets, it turns the messy art of judging startups into a tense, playful inspection loop. It's a witty take on how funding decisions really feel — part bureaucracy, part gut instinct.
You're the one deciding which YC startups to fund — inspect the papers, call the next founder, and stamp your verdict.
- smlavine
Doesn't credit the original creator at all in the actual website?
- tiborsaas
I found the document management way too confusing. There's no clear game loop and I'm kinda lost what signatures mean, what the other documents are what success is.
Papers please has a much simple mental model.
- Fraterkes
Would be interesting if we could plot the average amount of time spent on the creation of showhn stuff that gets to the front page, over the past years.
- exolymph
Shameless plug, if you think this is funny you will also enjoy merging startups to create new fever-dream companies! https://studio.sonyasupposedly.com/startups/
For example, Tailscale meets Supabase: https://studio.sonyasupposedly.com/startups/m/supabase+tails...
- achandra03
Maybe I'm stupid but I quit after 5 minutes because I had no idea what was going on with the documents.