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HN · launched Oct 29, 2025 · 15 upvotes (top 31%) · 0 views
Niche: online trivia quiz games · 163 launches, 18 in the last 7 days ▼ -25% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Education
- Vertical SaaS
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 163 launches in online trivia quiz games →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a simple interactive web quiz evaluating numerical confidence intervals based on a classic Jeff Atwood blog post.
Discussion
9 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Scoring system marks close estimates wrong, treats as trivia rather than estimation skill, Allows gaming the system with extreme ranges (0 to 10^18) to get credit, Unit confusion between raw numbers and billions, Mobile UX: units not visible without scrolling
Feature requests: Show how far off estimates were (order of magnitude), Measure accuracy as mean percent difference instead of right/wrong binary, Add decimal separators to number input boxes, Display units at top of questions or in input boxes, Use slider interface instead of text input for range selection
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 59 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #19 of 60 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Looks like the first mover among its competitors.
- I built a 2-min quiz that shows you how bad you are at estimating · hn · 2026-04-06 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Sampling And Estimations. · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- How random are you? · hn · 2026-10-13 · 215 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Track habits, metrics, time and whateven you think worth tracking · hn · 2026-08-13 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Sifter · hn · 2026-05-26 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- worth. · ph · 2026-10-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- NegativeEV · hn · 2026-07-30 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- See how much your AI knows about you · hn · 2026-08-24 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.37
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