Show HN: Chess Invite, start a game of chess, share the link
1 jrnkntl 0 9/11/2025, 8:17:52 PM chessinvite.com ↗
The idea for this came from a comment on HN I read 6 months ago, where someone said: "I wish I could send a one-time link to my father where we could play chess against each other by re-visiting the same link" [1].
Of course lichess.org was mentioned, but it got me excited to build something simple with not too much scope creep. So that's what I tried to build: simple, without signup and supporting slow (make a move every week) or fast (sse based) games.
Built with PocketBase[2] (customized to f.e. support web push), chess.js[3] and Claude it rekindled my interest in chess and I started playing it offline again and shared some game invites with friends.
Hope some of you like it -> https://chessinvite.com
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