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place-clone – A nostalgic revisiting of r/place

by chabes·Apr 1, 2026·1 point·1 comment
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AI Analysis

●MidCozyShip It

Yet another r/place clone, but the free-tier hosting stack is clever.

Strengths
  • •Free-tier architecture (Neocities + Render + Firebase) keeps costs at zero.
  • •Bot detection with fingerprinting and behavior analysis included.
  • •Admin panel with moderation tools and log export for community management.
Weaknesses
  • •Alpha stage with rough edges; author admits it's a hobby project.
  • •r/place clones already exist; no novel differentiation beyond hosting.
Category
Open Source
Target Audience

Hobby developers, r/place nostalgia fans, Neocities users

Similar To

r/place · PixelCanvas · Placebot

Post Description

Hi HN.

*Tl;dr*: An attempt was made to build a remake of the original r/place. The repo is now public, and I'd love feedback, contributions, and the like. Demo (very much alpha) is here: https://chabes.neocities.org/place/

This is a hobby project I have been playing with for a few days. It is an llm-assisted attempt at a nostalgic clone of the 2017 April Fools (9 years ago today) reddit experiment r/place[1][2]. My intention is to have a working version by the 10 year anniversary coming up a year from today.

A demo can be interacted with here: https://chabes.neocities.org/place/

I don't expect this to get huge traction on HN, but please don't hug to death, regardless. It is semi-functional, but very rough around the edges.

That's basically it. Try the demo. Repo is open for contributions. Let me know if you have any questions!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/place

[2] https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit-plugin-place-openso...

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