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Show HN: Startup Fighter
- mastef 12y agoAs part of a 7 days product challenge we got this small idea about a startup game, which pivoted itself into 2 games... :) An experiment with Firebase + AngelList API and too many childhood memories on the SNES
- laex 12y agoThis game helped me find out about Moltin, which is kinda what I was looking for. Basically, I was looking for shopify alternative.
- galfarragem 12y agoI'm waiting for a JS alternative. This one is based on Meteor. I hope it gets traction.[1] [1] https://reactioncommerce.com/ https://reactioncommerce.com/
- mayrun 12y agoHelped me find tindie, a DIY hardware store.
- normloman 12y agoIs the elevator pitch game actually scored? Are there right and wrong answers?
- mastef 12y agoIt's only scored for the startups themselves ( hi-score list on frontpage )
- normloman 12y agoThat could be confusing misinformation for startups. The only opinion that matters in an elevator pitch is the investor you're pitching to. The people who play this game are other startup people. They don't know any more about pitching than the founders in the game. I hope nobody seriously uses this for testing their pitch.
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- quickdraw46 12y agoYour UI is err, pixelated ;)
- GBond 12y agoI can't get enough of the dancing Carlton loading images.
- bonzoT 12y agolong live the Fresh Prince
- pearjuice 12y agoIs the game broken for anyone else? Playing the elevator pitch gives me two text balloons with pitches, clicking on one of them changes the text and the one I didn't click on always says "...". The LinkedIn profile pictures stay distorted and the only thing I can do is click "NEXT". Score is not showing up et cetera. Any minimum browser requirement? I am on Chromium 39.
- mastef 12y agoThere's 2 games : a) Which pitch is better - no player scoring there, only scoring for the startups b) Guess the startup - One slogan, 3 choices You can switch between the games in the top navigation
- aselzer 12y agoThe /#/guesses page made Chrome eat 100% CPU on one core :) Might want to truncate it.
- mastef 12y agoThanks! Will look into it :)
- neil_s 12y agoRunning incredibly slowly for me. I guess its the HN/PH effect.
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- mastef 12y agoyes in the beginning we were loading in the whole data from firebase, of course it got a bit big with 250-300 people playing non-stop for the past hours :) we have optimised it now and it should be much better - remember to ctrl+refresh to clear your browser cache
- iamthepieman 12y agosometimes both pitches are horrible.
- mastef 12y agopick the lesser evil
- mastef 12y agoHere's a live feed of the current guesses : https://startupfighter.com/#/guesses https://startupfighter.com/#/guesses
- MoOmer 12y agoCrashes latest mobile chrome on iOS.
- mastef 12y agoyou could try ctrl+refreshing for latest version
- billhendricksjr 12y agoCool idea, clever roll out. How did you collect the pitches? I was surprised and flattered to see my company (Common Form) included.
- mastef 12y agoYour company is in the top 5! Congrats! We added all Startups exclusively through the AngelList API - it exposes Startups currently marked as fund raising. Also people can submit their suggestions as long as the Startup is listed on AngelList itself and matches a certain quality score. And then we also went ahead and added promising startups manually ourselves :)
- billhendricksjr 12y agoThanks and nice work!
- ionforce 12y agoThere's something so endearing about the pixelation. Reminds me of Sierra games!
- inglor 12y agoPlease stop stealing my back button - if I press back it means I want to go back to where I was. This pattern is really annoying in new sites.
- mastef 12y agoYou're playing a game in this case. Similar to scrolling to the right in a side-scroller. The game doesn't want to let you go back to the left - or in this case to re-answer the previous question. However that doesn't mean that the back-button is broken. It behaves like it would behave on other websites as well - and actually doesn't register multiple guesses separately. If you'd elaborate more clearly where this behaviour is broken - as generally it's not - I'd be happy to look into fixing it for your comfort...
- anigbrowl 12y agoI agree, but different people have different ideas on 'where I was' means, depending on how their site loads. The previous fight? or back to HN because you are bored with the whole thing? Sometimes I've wanted to step back one link within the same site, only to get dumped out to the previous site I visited because the whole thing was JS-driven. this is especially annoying with the endless scroll sites that are so popular these days.
- graeme 12y agoI see this comment frequently. What browser/device does it work on? I'm on chrome on osx and my back button works fine.
- caherrerapa 12y agogood job, some good product discoveries
- angersock 12y agoA lot of these pitches are, well...there's a reason a lot of people like to make fun of sanfranistan and the global startup ecosystem, right?