Show HN: Treasure Guessr – A map-based web game

Hi HN,

I recently launched Treasure Guessr, a small web game I made with a friend: https://play.treasureguessr.com

You're shown a zoomed-in "treasure map" (a cropped view from somewhere in the world), and your goal is to find that same spot on a global map. It’s inspired by the treasure maps in FFXIV, and a bit by GeoGuessr, of course.

We built it mostly for fun, and might explore a Steam version with more content for a few bucks if there’s enough interest.

Fun fact: the backend is just a shared Google Sheet queried directly from the React app. Not sure how sustainable that is, but it did the trick for the prototype.

Feedback welcome!

Antoine aka teuteuf (also made Worldle a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30367906)

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Show HN: Treasure Guessr – A map-based web game

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