Show HN: I built a Jeopardy game maker with buzzer support

Sometime in early 2022, my wife and I started watching Jeopardy! regularly, almost by accident. Inspired, I thought it would be fun to create and host my own games with family and friends.

By September 2022, I debuted Buzzinga at a family reunion. Back then, it was just a website running locally on my MacBook. It was a total blast, and I knew this was something the world should enjoy too.

I launched Buzzinga.io in December 2023 and have been rolling out regular updates for our 2000+ users ever since.

Features:

- Built-in buzzer support (phones and physical buzzers) - Automatic scorekeeping - User-friendly host controls - Highly customizable - Supports multiple clue types: text, image, audio, and video

The site does not require sign up to play around with, only to create your own games.

Show HN: I built a Jeopardy game maker with buzzer support
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Very cool! I built a no-code version of this for my friends' birthdays where all of the clues were about them (inside jokes, dumb bets, catch phrases, etc). I just printed out categories in a grid on a sheet of paper and had a bunch of questions listed out in OneNote on my phone and manually kept score. I didn't put penalties in place if somebody got it wrong to encourage people to participate vs just optimizing for score. "Jonpardy" and "Joshpardy" are two of our friend groups most cherished and repeatedly cited events from the past 10 years.

I've dabbled with the idea of creating some real implementation of this. I most recently put together an @Midnight / After Midnight no-code game for a friend's bachelor party. The buzz-in mechanics and score-keeping are somewhat similar. Maybe you could repurpose your core logic for several different game show themes?

No plans at the moment, but I’m not fully against the idea.

Ha, never heard of this event. Watching the one from DEFCON 31 now. Did you play in that one?