A game where you invest into startups from history
Details
- External ID
- 45940603
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- A game where you invest into startups from history
- Website domain
- startupgambit.com
- Launched
- Nov. 15, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 43
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8078602620087336
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie hacker passion projects
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Marketplace
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- startup investment simulation game
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A turn-based or text/card-based investment simulation game utilizing historical startup data and basic balance sheet mechanics is a classic weekend vibe-coding project.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: https://tools.encona.com/investor
Concerns raised: Game balance: investing in everything guarantees profit with minimal losses, Mobile responsiveness broken (illegible in Safari on iPhone), Forced countdown timer feels unfriendly, especially with LLM delays, Demo cutoff message not displaying, losing potential signups, Founders refuse to answer questions outright instead of subtly declining
Feature requests: Mobile version support, Min/max funding ranges per investment opportunity, Allow investments at multiple time points (pre/post-crash scenarios), Base companies on real businesses with scrambled names for better clarity, Limit questions by count instead of strict time countdown
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 126 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #28 of 127 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 8 days after the earliest competitor.
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- KickOff Africa · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- A factory simulator game built on Spreadsheets · hn · 2026-07-24 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.45
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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