# Jerry's Map

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/jerry-s-map/

5 people recommended Jerry's Map in Hacker News comments and none criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 12 months, in 1 thread. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

5 of the 5 people who recommend it commented in one thread, “Jerry's Map”.

**Verdict:** Recommended as a terrific YouTube documentary by People Make Games, praised for showing how a creative system pushes work forward.

Summary written by Claude from 4 comments.

## Why people recommend it

- Favourite recent YouTube documentary (1 comment in the sample): "This one of my most favourite youtube documentaries i've seen in a while" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48653349))
- Pushes creative process forward (1 comment in the sample): "I like that his system pushes the creative process forward without relinquishing the actual creative part of it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652271))
- Terrific documentary by People Make Games (1 comment in the sample): "People Make Games just did a terrific documentary on this" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48649926))
- Worth clicking through and watching (1 comment in the sample): "consider this comment a recommendation to click through and watch it then" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651679))

## Other documentary films people recommend

- [You Can See Everything](https://hackerapproved.com/p/you-can-see-everything/): 30 recommend, 8 mixed, 28 criticize
- [HyperNormalisation by Adam Curtis](https://hackerapproved.com/p/hypernormalisation/): 13 recommend, 1 mixed, 1 criticize
- [The Thinking Game](https://hackerapproved.com/p/thinking-game-documentary/): 13 recommend, 1 mixed, 8 criticize
- [It's Quieter in the Twilight](https://hackerapproved.com/p/it-s-quieter-in-the-twilight/): 12 recommend, 0 mixed, 0 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Jerry's Map", https://hackerapproved.com/p/jerry-s-map/ (5 recommend, 0 mixed, 0 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.