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.
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
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43267296
[2] https://pocketbase.io
[3] https://github.com/jhlywa/chess.js