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HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through

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Re: HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through

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Post by yoyifo5059 »

ficklepickle wrote: post #85

Shameless plug for my new open source trivia PWA Just Trivia[0] It has no ads, tracking, social integrations or monetization of any kind. It can never go out of business, it already is out of business! It's an MVP, I just stood it up two days ago. The whole app bundle is around 700k before splitting. Each 10 question uses about 7kb of additional data. No CSS frameworks, minimal 3rd party deps. Uses the awesome illust…

Nice that you put together a great MVP and get-things-done

Anyone here interesting in doing a decent front-end to a simple card game e.g. UNO or war or whatever? I will do the backend APIs. I can spare a few $xxx. Hit me up on yoyifo5059@mailboxt.net

Re: HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through

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Post by bruceb »

ficklepickle wrote: post #85

Shameless plug for my new open source trivia PWA Just Trivia[0] It has no ads, tracking, social integrations or monetization of any kind. It can never go out of business, it already is out of business! It's an MVP, I just stood it up two days ago. The whole app bundle is around 700k before splitting. Each 10 question uses about 7kb of additional data. No CSS frameworks, minimal 3rd party deps. Uses the awesome illust…

I tried it. Its clean. One thing, after completing one category, computers, I tried clicking on others and nothing happend. Even after refreshing page. This was on firefox

Re: HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through

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Post by edwhitesell »

miguelmota wrote: post #4

HQ Trivia was great at first but it got boring fast, especially when they replaced host Scott Rogowsky and did the show multiple times a day instead of every few days which created more hype. The sudden death of cofounder Colin Kroll was also a bizarre event to add to the mix.

Agreed, I played a bit a year or two ago, won a few games and enjoyed it. I was actually happier when Scott hosted less, but I'm in a minority there among people I know.

Ultimately, there was nothing very "sticky" about it for me. The "once a day" thing is kinda fun, but when there's nothing else to use the App for the other 23 hours of the day, it's easy to break the habit and forget about it.

Re: HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through

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Post by Waterluvian »

kick wrote: post #69
Waterluvian wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's all interesting but I'm not sure how we got to talking about his diet. I looked it up and indeed he had pancreatic cancer eight years before he died. Suggests that it's possible for Trebek to live for some time yet given not all forms are untreatable.

His diet was correlated with pancreatic cancer, and he doubled down on it after he had got it; foregoing treatment to use a more extreme version of it, until it was too late to be treated effectively.

Interesting thanks. I thought the course of events was: get cancer. Use quackery for a while to no effect. Get real treatment. Discover its a treatable form of cancer. Live half a decade more. Succumb to cancer.

Re: HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through

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Post by t0mas88 »

stirlo wrote: post #11

Same thing happened to Draw Something and Words with Friends. The trick is to get the 9 figure valuation, raise as much funding as possible and then put as much in your pockets before the hype dies down.

The best way to do that is to take sizable portions of secondary sales while raising capital at high valuations. You'll walk away with tens of millions regardless of whether the app realizes an exit in the end.

Re: HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through

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Post by godzillabrennus »

t0mas88 wrote: post #95
stirlo wrote: post #11

Same thing happened to Draw Something and Words with Friends. The trick is to get the 9 figure valuation, raise as much funding as possible and then put as much in your pockets before the hype dies down.

The best way to do that is to take sizable portions of secondary sales while raising capital at high valuations. You'll walk away with tens of millions regardless of whether the app realizes an exit in the end.

Secondary market is the untold hero of the entrepreneur for a VC backed company.

Gotta be careful not to sell too much and be a canary in the coal mine to investors buying into the hype.

If done right you win either way.

Re: HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through

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Post by ficklepickle »

bruceb wrote: post #92
ficklepickle wrote: post #85

Shameless plug for my new open source trivia PWA Just Trivia[0] It has no ads, tracking, social integrations or monetization of any kind. It can never go out of business, it already is out of business! It's an MVP, I just stood it up two days ago. The whole app bundle is around 700k before splitting. Each 10 question uses about 7kb of additional data. No CSS frameworks, minimal 3rd party deps. Uses the awesome illust…

I tried it. Its clean. One thing, after completing one category, computers, I tried clicking on others and nothing happend. Even after refreshing page. This was on firefox

Thanks for trying it! Strange, I can't replicate that.

After a game, it should return you to categories with your category/categories still selected. Pressing next should start a game of the same category.

I'll dig into the server logs and see if I can figure it out. If you feel like it you can open a github issue.

Re: HQ Trivia shuts down after acquisition falls through

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Post by phonon »

Waterluvian wrote: post #94
kick wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

His diet was correlated with pancreatic cancer, and he doubled down on it after he had got it; foregoing treatment to use a more extreme version of it, until it was too late to be treated effectively.

Interesting thanks. I thought the course of events was: get cancer. Use quackery for a while to no effect. Get real treatment. Discover its a treatable form of cancer. Live half a decade more. Succumb to cancer.

Unfortunately, the doctors told him it was a (rare) treatable form of cancer that needed to be surgically treated immediately, he refused, preferred to treat with diet, didn't work, finally had to have a more much invasive surgical intervention (transplant). Helped, but he still died. If he would treated it correctly when he was first informed, he would probably still be alive.
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