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Ask HN: Review my startup, Beansight.com

#1

Post by Oyinko »

Hi Everyone,

One of my friend told me that I can get great feedbacks with Ask HN to improve my startups. So let's ask you.

I'am working working on a new website where people can share predictions and be rewarded for good ones.

On Beansight you can share and record your predictions about what it’s going to happen. You can also read other members predictions and agree or disagree with them. Most important, you can also write comments to argue your position.

If members make good predictions, they will earn credibility points and if they earn a lot of them, they will become an expert on Beansight. So they will be able to use their Beansight profile to prove their expertise.

We're planning on launching a lot of new features in the coming months, but we've gotten to a point where we'd really appreciate some feedback for improving effect. We are particularly looking for feedback about the UI.

Thank you

Cyril

Link: http://www.beansight.com/

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#6

Post by derrida »

Just a thought: Whether a prediction is objectively good or not is different to whether the prediction is seen as good or not. If you can think of a mechanism to figure out whether a prediction was good or not after the event has happened, the system could then make a second order prediction about whether that user's a good predictor or not. Keep me up to date if you manage to solve any of these problems.

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup, Beansight.com

#7

Post by Oyinko »

derrida wrote: post #6

Just a thought: Whether a prediction is objectively good or not is different to whether the prediction is seen as good or not. If you can think of a mechanism to figure out whether a prediction was good or not after the event has happened, the system could then make a second order prediction about whether that user's a good predictor or not. Keep me up to date if you manage to solve any of these problems.

We worked on an algorithm that will check every prediction to know if they happened or not.

If members record a prediction on Beansight and that it happens, they will be rewarded. If they record predictions that will not happen, they will lose credibility points.

Re: Ask HN: Review my startup, Beansight.com

#9

Post by acrum »

genystartup wrote: post #2

Lovely design and good effort on the coding. I just don't like that having to log in to vote bit. It's unnecessary in my honest opinion.

I agree. Let non-users vote, but make people sign in to add comments or post their own predictions. You can include some kind of measures to make sure someone doesn't vote more than once or twice.
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