Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-15
Burn Rate, the Startup Simulator That Lets You Ruin a Unicorn
A free, turn-based Silicon Valley startup simulation where you found a company, make moves, raise money, survive chaos, and chase a $1T exit.
Why it surfacedBurn Rate turns startup mythology into a playable farce: begin with $30K and a dream, choose from 15 niches and four founder archetypes, then manage two moves per month across a 72-month term. Its copy understands the genre, from the founder who has “never read a term sheet” to the deck where slide 4 is simply “Humanity.”
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The Two-Tonne Temperature Problem
August 15’s newborn domains include a live-aboard hydrogen airship with a two-tonne lift problem, a Japanese toolbox that explains its assumptions, an advisory-by-advisory Hawaiʻi hurricane archive, and a wedding-gift game about ungrateful poultry.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-15 Domain Arrivals issue.