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Henry Godnick
Henry Godnick

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A tiny SaaS founder game beats another boring launch post

Most founder launch posts ask for the same thing:

Please check out my new SaaS.

That is fine, but it gets boring fast. Everyone has a landing page. Everyone has a demo. Everyone wants feedback.

So I built something more playful: BuilderBench.

It is a free web game for SaaS founders and builders. You play eight quick events, get one all-round score, and compete on a leaderboard where the top five scores can show their SaaS links.

The events are:

  • Reaction Time
  • Sequence Memory
  • Aim Trainer
  • Number Memory
  • Verbal Memory
  • Chimp Test
  • Visual Memory
  • Typing

It is basically a human benchmark, but pointed at builders.

The funny part is how founder-coded the events feel. Reaction time is the “a customer just found a bug” test. Sequence memory is the “what was I doing before Slack interrupted me” test. Typing is the “ship the patch before I overthink it” test. Aim Trainer is just pure cursor control ego damage.

BuilderBench is not pretending to predict who will build the next huge SaaS. It is just a fast, competitive way for builders to mess around, compare scores, and maybe get their product link onto the top-five board.

That makes the call to action way more fun than a normal launch post.

Instead of:

“Please visit my site.”

It becomes:

“Can your SaaS make the leaderboard?”

If you want to try it, it is here:

https://www.buildersbenchmark.com/

Eight events. One all-round score. Top-five SaaS links.

I want to see which builders have scary reaction time and which ones get humbled by the chimp test.

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