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Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed
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Re: Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed
#112Cool idea but the AI images are kind of lame. For anyone who wants something like this I recommend NYT's Flashback quiz: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/07/upshot/flashb...
Or an open source version you can play infinitely:
Re: Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed
#113I'm no history buff, so i found it quite fun just as a game.
the system is quite easy to cheese by simply going back and re-guessing once you have the answer, was really enjoying the scoring aspect until I figured out how simple it was to get close to 100%.
Understandable cause its still a PoC and very much a beta, but thought I'd give you the heads up.
Re: Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed
#114Great idea, the scroll bar for the year is a bit difficult to use in PC.
Re: Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed
#115Fantastic fun!
One nit is recent events (1980+) will fall into an uncanny valley.
Re: Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed
#116Interesting concept, but the use of AI art is personally extremely off-putting. Maybe it works for people who like having everything filtered through a modern cinematic cgi filter. In this case, sure, it is a neat tool for seeing how a hollywood studio might have imagined events of the past to look like. At least you admit upfront here that they are "fantastical imaginations" of historical events, but maybe you shoul…
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Re: Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed
#117I'm no history buff, so i found it quite fun just as a game. the system is quite easy to cheese by simply going back and re-guessing once you have the answer, was really enjoying the scoring aspect until I figured out how simple it was to get close to 100%. Understandable cause its still a PoC and very much a beta, but thought I'd give you the heads up.
Glad you liked it. Yeah, still no score tracking on the web game and it runs on the honor system. If you get the iOS app, you can keep track of your scores and it will just save the score the first time you play.
Re: Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed
#118I was excited by the title until I saw it was all AI :( It would’ve been cool to collect actual images from history. I’m sure there are 1000s of public domain images that could be used.
I know, right?! All those amazing photos from ancient Egypt are some of my favourites. Especially selfies with Amun-Ra and Amunet...
Re: Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed
#119This is truly awesome. I love it. Please keep up the good work!
Re: Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed
#120Great concept. I'm an avid geoguessr and wikitrivia player, you're definitely onto something here. I built a prototype version similar to this called PastPort last year, but I like your idea better. This uses Flux then image to video? Good quality generations, it would be wonderful to see the accuracy of the images improve. I saw you want to make it interactive like moving mode in geoguessr; that would be fantastic.…
That's so cool! Yes, Flux then image to video. And agree, definitely focused on improving the image accuracy.
This isn't open source, no. We're a team of two through our company Eggnog AI. That said, happy to talk some time if you're interested!