That 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.
Ya, this confused the hell out of me. I was trying to figure out if "I" was right or not. So I just started spamming left answers trying to figure out what those result messages actually meant.
Maybe you could add a message clarifying that there are no official right or wrong answers and that this is a community driven game, like a poll.
So there's 2 games - one is just picking which pitch you like, and the other one is matching startup names to a slogan. You can switch between both games on the front page or in the header
Added now a 'guess game' top ranking list to the front page as well :)
Is 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.
yes 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
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 :)
You'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...
I 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.
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(No need for the downvotes HN people, It was an honest question.)
Maybe you could add a message clarifying that there are no official right or wrong answers and that this is a community driven game, like a poll.
Displaying polling results would also be a plus.
Regardless, great idea, smart use of an api.
So there's 2 games - one is just picking which pitch you like, and the other one is matching startup names to a slogan. You can switch between both games on the front page or in the header
Added now a 'guess game' top ranking list to the front page as well :)
Any minimum browser requirement? I am on Chromium 39.
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
we have optimised it now and it should be much better - remember to ctrl+refresh to clear your browser cache
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 :)
This pattern is really annoying in new sites.
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...