[HN Gopher] Show HN: A game where you invest into startups from ...
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Show HN: A game where you invest into startups from history
Author : vire00
Score : 27 points
Date : 2025-11-15 21:05 UTC (5 days ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (startupgambit.com)
| oceansky wrote:
| Not playable on mobile browser
| achandra03 wrote:
| Pretty fun! Only complaint is that the responses from the
| founders take a bit long to load.
| mike-gongolidis wrote:
| Love it! Very smart! Are all the company names real?
| Delk wrote:
| I'm pretty sure they aren't. I invested in what was obviously
| Facebook under a different name.
| Jordan-117 wrote:
| I got "SalesForce" at one point.
| jmkd wrote:
| Stopped / crashed Dec 31 2005 with $358K return. Cannot proceed.
| Fun until then.
| cjs_ac wrote:
| Same - I think that's the end of the game (so far?)
| frenchmajesty wrote:
| Yea it ends on that date. I cashed out with $622K
| westurner wrote:
| Re: backtesting and paper trading:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38908537 :
|
| > _pyfolio.tears.create_interesting_times_tear_sheet_
| frenchmajesty wrote:
| Fun 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 wrote:
| i'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 wrote:
| I 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 wrote:
| I tried investing in every pitch I got, which seems to be a
| positive strategy.
| ivraatiems wrote:
| This 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.
| asadm wrote:
| very cool game! needs some juice.
|
| https://garden.bradwoods.io/notes/design/juice
|
| also, add a leaderboard
| andrewrn wrote:
| This is pretty fun!
| frenchmajesty wrote:
| Damn. 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
| anonu wrote:
| nice 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.
| cosmicgadget wrote:
| I need to be able to type faster, just got done chatting with
| Mark and I completely missed the opportunity to invest in Quibi.
| arkensaw wrote:
| fun, 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
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