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Re: Show HN: Startup Fighter

#31

Post by ionforce » Tue, Dec 23, 2014, 4:39 PM UTC

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

Re: Show HN: Startup Fighter

#32

Post by mastef » Tue, Dec 23, 2014, 4:45 PM UTC

billhendricksjr wrote: post #30

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 :)

Re: Show HN: Startup Fighter

#33

Post by inglor » Tue, Dec 23, 2014, 5:10 PM UTC

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.

Re: Show HN: Startup Fighter

#34

Post by mastef » Tue, Dec 23, 2014, 5:26 PM UTC

inglor wrote: post #33

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...

Re: Show HN: Startup Fighter

#35

Post by billhendricksjr » Tue, Dec 23, 2014, 5:31 PM UTC

mastef wrote: post #32

billhendricksjr wrote: post #30

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!

Re: Show HN: Startup Fighter

#36

Post by bpicolo » Tue, Dec 23, 2014, 5:35 PM UTC

mastef wrote: post #34

inglor wrote: post #33

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 beh…

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

Re: Show HN: Startup Fighter

#37

Post by anigbrowl » Tue, Dec 23, 2014, 5:43 PM UTC

inglor wrote: post #33

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.

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.

Re: Show HN: Startup Fighter

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Post by mastef » Tue, Dec 23, 2014, 5:50 PM UTC

bpicolo wrote: post #36

mastef wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 beh…

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

Re: Show HN: Startup Fighter

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Post by graeme » Tue, Dec 23, 2014, 6:29 PM UTC

inglor wrote: post #33

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.

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

Re: Show HN: Startup Fighter

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Post by Sakes » Tue, Dec 23, 2014, 6:50 PM UTC

mastef wrote: post #9

normloman wrote: post #7

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 )

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.