Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed

Thanks for playing! No immediate plans to paywall the game, but we do eventually want to make money from it in some capacity.

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Edit: dang suggested we should add more about the link to our startup, so here's more if anyone's interested:

Originally, we were making an AI video creator tool with a focus on character consistency in long videos (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39853474). A year ago, character consistency was a big problem and we developed a solution for it in AI videos. Now though, a lot of other AI video creator tools have come out, and 1) character consistency has been solved in other ways 2) the other tools just make better quality videos than ours.

So we decided to pivot from building video creator tools to building apps with AI video as the core format. When I say that we plan to sell apps like Time Portal, it's still pretty open ended. First, we just want to build an app/apps that people really like using for free and figure out the best way to monetize them later. Time Portal is not for sale right now. It's free to play on the web and there is a free app in the App Store.

My first reaction is that the scoring is too harsh. I got within 50 years and 100 km and the resulting score is 7,406 / 10,000.

Yeah the scoring can be pretty harsh. You should be able to see your percentile overall and for each round on the results page.

This is a great idea - loved it!

And I’d love to see the idea expanded further. “AI recreations of historical scenes” is an idea with tons of interesting potential.

The super anachronistic output makes this really difficult. One of the examples was the battle in the war of the roses but all the imagery suggests over a hundred years later.