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Please 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.

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...

He means that, if you play through the game, you shouldn't have to click back 20 times to return to hacker news. : )

You don't have to - I just played through a game of 10 guesses, and HN is still 2-3 back clicks away

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.

I see this comment frequently. What browser/device does it work on? I'm on chrome on osx and my back button works fine.

Here's a live feed of the current guesses : https://startupfighter.com/#/guesses

I can't get enough of the dancing Carlton loading images.

long live the Fresh Prince

Cool idea, clever roll out. How did you collect the pitches? I was surprised and flattered to see my company (Common Form) included.

Your 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 :)

Thanks and nice work!

The /#/guesses page made Chrome eat 100% CPU on one core :) Might want to truncate it.

Thanks! Will look into it :)

As 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

what's your twitter id? This is trending on Product Hunt

It's the same, I commented there too :) Thanks!

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.

There'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

Running incredibly slowly for me. I guess its the HN/PH effect.

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

A 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?

This game helped me find out about Moltin, which is kinda what I was looking for. Basically, I was looking for shopify alternative.

I'm waiting for a JS alternative. This one is based on Meteor. I hope it gets traction.[1]

[1] https://reactioncommerce.com/

There's something so endearing about the pixelation. Reminds me of Sierra games!

Is the elevator pitch game actually scored? Are there right and wrong answers?

It's only scored for the startups themselves ( hi-score list on frontpage )

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.

Are you being serious

Yes I am. I'm wondering if any startups are using the game to refine their pitch. It sounds feasible that some are, and if so, I think it's a mistake.

Literally no one is doing that.

Ok, good. I was just curious.

(No need for the downvotes HN people, It was an honest question.)

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.

Displaying polling results would also be a plus.

Regardless, great idea, smart use of an api.

Thanks!

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 :)

Your UI is err, pixelated ;)

Helped me find tindie, a DIY hardware store.

Crashes latest mobile chrome on iOS.

you could try ctrl+refreshing for latest version

good job, some good product discoveries

sometimes both pitches are horrible.

pick the lesser evil

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