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Show HN: A game where you invest into startups from history
- oceansky 11mo agoNot playable on mobile browser
- vire00 10mo agoMobile is next!
- achandra03 11mo agoPretty fun! Only complaint is that the responses from the founders take a bit long to load.
- mike-gongolidis 11mo agoLove it! Very smart! Are all the company names real?
- Delk 11mo agoI'm pretty sure they aren't. I invested in what was obviously Facebook under a different name.
- Jordan-117 11mo agoI got "SalesForce" at one point.
- vire00 10mo agoNo but the successful ones are always inspired by something. Eg. Google, Paypal etc.
- jmkd 11mo agoStopped / crashed Dec 31 2005 with $358K return. Cannot proceed. Fun until then.
- cjs_ac 11mo agoSame - I think that's the end of the game (so far?)
- frenchmajesty 11mo agoYea it ends on that date. I cashed out with $622K
- vire00 10mo agoYep the game has only 5 years so far.
- vire00 10mo agoIt was supposed to show "end of demo, please sign up". Welp there goes potential users :D
- westurner 11mo agoRe: backtesting and paper trading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38908537 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38908537 : > pyfolio.tears.create_interesting_times_tear_sheet
- frenchmajesty 11mo agoFun game! My investing strategy is to flush out quickly who's the team, what's the traction, what's unique insight into the market. Bullshitters have trash or no answers. Killer companies have one of those 3 that is usually very compelling.
- volkk 11mo agoi've asked who's the team 3 times and always got "can't disclose." i figured this was a limitation of the game. do some answer?
- frenchmajesty 11mo agoI do get answers. The ones who typically said can't disclose are you full of shit. Crack teams know they're cracked and they will tell you. "I'm a MIT-trained security engineer; I'm an ex-VP at Paypal, etc..."
- lordgrenville 11mo agoI tried investing in every pitch I got, which seems to be a positive strategy.
- ivraatiems 11mo agoThis is a genuinely great use of LLMs/related technology. Dynamic characters you can have conversations with to make game choices more informed is a really cool idea, actually feels original and clever. I really enjoyed playing it.
- vire00 10mo agoThanks :)
- asadm 11mo agovery cool game! needs some juice. https://garden.bradwoods.io/notes/design/juice https://garden.bradwoods.io/notes/design/juice also, add a leaderboard
- vire00 10mo agoReading it now. This is really useful.
- andrewrn 11mo agoThis is pretty fun!
- frenchmajesty 11mo agoDamn. Now I understand VC's a little better. Some deals I saw "damn the traction is off the chart" and I didn't even care to ask any question I just threw money at them. I saw one startup named Salesforce, a CRM. I guess hindsight is 20/20 on that one lol. Didn't even read the pitch. This game is awesome
- vire00 10mo agoNice
- anonu 11mo agonice game - but you need a UX designer. Almost abandoned it since I thought it was broken... I just didnt know what I was waiting for or didnt know where to click.
- vire00 10mo agoNoted, actually UX & appearance was the next thing on my TO-DO list
- cosmicgadget 11mo agoI need to be able to type faster, just got done chatting with Mark and I completely missed the opportunity to invest in Quibi.
- arkensaw 11mo agofun, but it seems if I just invest in everything I don't lose. I get 3x/4x return on a lot of things but only lose <1x if its a bad investment
- rahimnathwani 10mo agoYou might like this, which has greater penalties for bad investments: https://tools.encona.com/investor https://tools.encona.com/investor
- KomoD 10mo agoAt least disclose that it's yours. Also spam 90% and you're basically guaranteed profit, I did it like 10 times.
- hex4def6 11mo agoI think the forced countdown is a bit unfriendly, especially when LLM delays eat the majority of that. Perhaps limit it to X questions. Also, having a min / max funding range (e.g, min 100K, max 500K). I might not want to wager the same on each opportunity. It might also be interesting to base it off real companies. Scramble the names (Paypal -> CashMate or whatever. Enough that the player doesn't know for sure what company its based on. ATi vs nVidia for eg), and also allow investment at multiple points in time. Pre-crash vs post-crash might yield significantly different ROI outcomes.
- vire00 10mo agoThanks for feedback. The successful startups are actually always based of real companies for example ClaritySearch = Google. I'll try to make that part clearer.
- stevenalowe 11mo agoIllegible in Safari on iPhone :(
- vire00 10mo agoNot for long!
- tglobs 10mo agoThis is fantastic. It's pretty frustrating for founders to flat-out refuse to answer questions though, I'd probably make that more subtle
- vire00 10mo agoThanks. Yeah right now they refuse usually when they don't know the answer. Will polish that part more.