Idle Startup

Merrill Lines · 21 Jun 2026

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Build a tech company from a one-person garage into a global empire. Train six skills, automate the grind, prestige for permanent Founder bonuses, climb the leaderboards, and chase 50+ achievements in this clean, endlessly-scaling idle game — progress rolls on even while you're away.

From a garage to a global empire

You started with a laptop and an idea. Idle Startup is a relaxing incremental game about growing that idea into a global tech company — one completed task at a time. Pick a skill and it goes to work: progress bars fill, XP rolls in, money stacks up. Spend it, level up, and watch new skills and whole departments unlock as your company climbs from a one-person Garage Startup to a Corporate Office.

Six skills, each its own journey

Every one of the six skills has its own upgrade tree gated by level and cost, backed by a company-wide store and an R&D lab. Push each skill through milestones at levels 25, 50, 75 and 99 for permanent, company-wide bonuses — and when a skill maxes out it keeps earning Mastery, a slow bonus that never stops growing.

Prestige, and go again — faster

Cash out your company for Founder Points and spend them in the Founder Store on permanent, cross-run upgrades: extra parallel skill slots, compounding growth, seed capital, a veteran team. Every run resets the ramp so the next climb is faster and reaches higher. It's an endless prestige loop with real teeth.

Automate the grind

Once you know the loop, hand it off. The Auto tab lets you toggle Auto-Hire, Auto-Train, Auto-Invest, Auto-Research, Auto-Accept-Contracts — even Auto-Refound. Build a machine that runs your whole company while you watch the numbers climb, or walk away entirely and come back richer.

Take on contracts, climb the boards

Accept contracts for bonus goals, then measure yourself against everyone else: global and friends , plus time-to-99 tracked down to the second. How fast can you max a skill?