Cool concept! However, the fact that it's on a timer and you can only try the next even in 1m is a killer feature (in a not-good way). Same for not being able to view the leaderboard

i get "next puzzle in 3.5 hours" WAT? it's interesting, but i'd like to play a dozen questions in my 5 minute break, not just one.

Historically this has never flown.

There's only 1 billionaire for every what, 10M people, 100M ? They are outnumbered. At some point the underclass may band together and kick off a revolution to overthrow the ruling class.

Kings have gotten their heads chopped off when the people had enough.

I can see a version of history where the end of capitalism was AI and the AI-owning class with their robots and capital essentially dispose of the majority of the society. Society decides this system is screwed and decides to overthrow capitalism and we invent a new system.

After all, at some point, smart people came up with capitalism to solve the previous system's problems. We may not go to socialism but invent something new entirely to address the flaws of late stage capitalism.

Yea it ends on that date. I cashed out with $622K

Damn. Now I understand VC's a little better.

Some deals I saw "damn the traction is off the chart" and I didn't even care to ask any question I just threw money at them. I saw one startup named Salesforce, a CRM. I guess hindsight is 20/20 on that one lol. Didn't even read the pitch.

This game is awesome

Nice

Fun game! My investing strategy is to flush out quickly who's the team, what's the traction, what's unique insight into the market.

Bullshitters have trash or no answers. Killer companies have one of those 3 that is usually very compelling.

i've asked who's the team 3 times and always got "can't disclose." i figured this was a limitation of the game. do some answer?

I do get answers. The ones who typically said can't disclose are you full of shit. Crack teams know they're cracked and they will tell you.

"I'm a MIT-trained security engineer; I'm an ex-VP at Paypal, etc..."

OP here. I should've added that clarification but it was to say as someone with the "most to gain" financially or professionally from AI becoming more important, I'm still against this content trend and find it is unproductive.

Good platform. A similar one was made I used to use back in ~2020 but eventually I think it died.

The best addition would be to have a simple form where people can submit ideas for questions. It'll keep your site from being stale and fading out of relevance like the last one.

Glad you like the platform! You make a good point about keeping content fresh. I think the standard YC questions are the most high-value to practice, so I want to keep the list curated rather than open it up to the public right away (to avoid noise/duplicate questions). However, I will make sure to keep the database updated as the 'meta' changes.

The ideas submitted still go through you where you approve/reject.

nice idea, I like it :) just added it to the site.

You are looking at it wrong. Meta is a business. You know what they sell? Ads.

In fact, they are the #1 or #2 place in the world to sell an ad depending on who you ask. If the future turns out to be LLM-driven, all that ad-money is going to go to OpenAI or worse to Google; leaving Zuck with no revenue.

So why are they after AI? Because they are in the business of selling eyeballs placement and LLM becoming the defacto platform would eat into their margins.

I get a Heroku error trying to view the site.

That means you won the game.

damn, I just lost The Game.

Thanks for ruining my 5-year streak.

Have they tried MongoDB?

same

Hey OP here. You're not wrong! Leaving aside the philosophical debate (isn't all form of capitalist participation selfishly motivated?), the main motivator was to help me and my friends with a problem we struggled with.

Many solo Entrepreneurs you see on Twitter with large audiences are busy people so they have hired cheap labor from India / Philippines to be the social media manager. They often take on the task of keeping up with the niches and drafting post ideas. The big issue is that the variance in quality of who you hire is very high, and it's also a mental and energy toll to manage an employee who works on the other side of earth.

So the AI helps to scours "here is what all the tech bros are talking about since 3 days ago" and then drafts 3-5 posts and shows them to me so I can curate. I get to keep my page and audience engaged while protecting my time from actual deep work instead of scrolling the feed all day.