OPEN BETA · v0.7.2 "Cold Start"

Run a hosting empire.
Your customers are AI.

A browser-based tycoon where every angry customer, every weird ticket, every late-night panic is generated by a real LLM that remembers your past mistakes. Start with one beige tower in a garage in 2002. End up running edge nodes in seventeen cities — or bankrupt at 4 AM debugging a Karen.

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Free to play · no signup to try Saves locally · bring your own LLM key ~30 min per shift · founders running · $· MRR · · tickets resolved
UPTIME (30d)
99.61%
NEW TICKET
[email protected]: "this is the THIRD time"
hyperscaler.game / ops / rack-01 ● 03:42 AM · DAY 184
RACK-01 · BUDAPEST 24U · 70% util
U2442%
U2361%
U2288%
U2197%
U2055%
U1938%
U18
U1771%
U1682%
U15
MRR
$8,420
SLA
99.6%
TEMP
28°C
INBOX · LIVE 7 open
K
Karen Holloway @ nutricoach.io
"This is the THIRD time my checkout has 500'd this week. I have receipts."
P1
D
Devon Park @ pixelbrew
"Migration finished but my DB is in Frankfurt now? It was in Warsaw."
P2
A
Anonymous @ ?? · burner
"hi do you host shady stuff. asking for a friend."
P3
M
Mira Sato @ glassmap
"Need GPU pod in Tokyo by Monday or we churn. Sorry, love your support btw."
P2
The catch

Your customers are not scripts.
They are language models with grudges.

Every account you sign is a persistent LLM agent with memory, mood, a billing history and friends on the forum. They'll praise you on Day 12 and leak your downtime on Day 47.

K
Karen Holloway
Solo founder · 3rd complaint
"I pay $19 a month. NINETEEN. I should not be the one telling YOU that europe-west-2 is on fire."
MRR $19 Mood −42 Churn risk 81%
D
Devon Park
CTO · loyal since '24
"Hey — the new staging region is chef's kiss. Can you also do Singapore? I'll prepay 6 months."
MRR $1.2k Mood +88 Refers 4
A
"Anon"
Burner · vibes off
"do you do egress without logs. paying in crypto. say no and I delete this account."
MRR $840 Risk HIGH Pays on time
M
Mira Sato
Eng lead · enterprise
"Procurement will need SOC 2 by Q3. If you can ship audit logs, I can sell you internally."
MRR $14k Mood +22 Expansion
2002 → 2026

From beige tower in your
cousin's garage to global edge.

The tech tree is the real one. The hardware costs real money (well, fake money). Every era unlocks new servers, new customers, new ways to fail.

2002
Garage Era
1U Pentium 4. Your roommate is the cooling system.
2006
Colo
Rent a half-rack. Learn what BGP costs.
2012
VPS Boom
Sell slices of metal. Pray no one mines.
2018
Containers
k8s, Stripe webhooks, your first SOC 2.
2024
GPU Gold Rush
Llamas. Lots of llamas. Watts cost more than rent.
2026
Global Edge
17 cities. Sub-30ms anywhere. One bad cert away from ruin.
Inside the game

A real ops console.
Pretending to be a game.

You don't click a "happy customer" button. You triage tickets, route traffic, scale fleets, decide who to refund and who to fire. Every decision has a paper trail the LLM reads back to you later.

Ops Fleet Customers Finance Tickets ·7 ● LIVE · Day 184 · $8,420 MRR
Ticket queue

Triage at 3 AM

Every ticket is a fresh LLM completion that knows your past 90 days.

Finance

Watch the burn

Power bills, payroll, GPU rentals — all real-time.

Hiring

Hire (and lose) staff

Your SRE quits if you keep paging her at 4 AM. Fair.

What makes it different

Six things no other tycoon does.

01

LLM-native NPCs

Customers, staff and competitors are language model agents with persistent memory. No scripted trees.

// Llama 3.1 70B · Claude · GPT-4o
02

Real tech tree

From IDE racks and tape backups to liquid-cooled GPU pods. Every node has a cost, a watt draw, a MTBF.

// 280+ unlockables
03

Support shifts

Sit down for a 30-minute live shift. Triage 10 angry tickets. Get scored on first-touch and refund cost.

// Run anywhere · 1 tab
04

Public reputation

The in-game Hacker News equivalent will absolutely roast you if you have a bad outage. Search "hyperscaler down".

// Karma matters
05

Bring your own model

Paste an API key and your customers run on the LLM of your choice. Or use the free hosted model with caps.

// Local Ollama supported
06

Async multiplayer

Compete on the global leaderboard. Acquire rival providers. Get acquired. Sleep, your fleet runs.

// Cross-shard auctions
Players say

Early reviews from the closed beta.
It's brutal, in the good way.

/r/hyperscaler · selected posts ● closed-beta forum
jp
jpetersen · 2d · "I lost a customer to lore"
A customer left because his agent "remembered" I bumped his price two quarters ago. The LLM literally cited the chat. I forgot. I lost $400 MRR to my own paper trail. 10/10.
★★★★★
ms
mira_s · 4d · "Game makes me a better PM"
I now write status pages at my real job the way the game scolds me to. My boss thinks I went to a conference. I just played Hyperscaler for a weekend.
★★★★★
dv
devops_dad · 5d · "Pricing rant"
Why does running my own Llama key cost 3× more than the in-game power bill. Felt very meta. Wife checked on me at 3am.
★★★★☆
ka
karen_irl · 6d · "I am Karen Holloway"
My name is Karen. The NPC named Karen yelled at me. Closed the tab. Opened it again. Refunded her. 1/10 emotional damage, would play forever.
★★★★★

Your first rack
is waiting.

No signup. Saves locally. You can paste your own LLM key if you want bigger customers. Closed beta is open.

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PriceFree during beta
Signup requiredNo
SavesLocal + cloud sync
LLMHosted · BYO key
PlatformsAny modern browser
Shift length~30 min
2002