Are You a Good Estimator?
Details
- External ID
- 45751827
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Are You a Good Estimator?
- Website domain
- dylancastillo.co
- Launched
- Oct. 29, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 15
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6886792452830188
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- estimation game or quiz
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 27 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #10 of 28 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Looks like the first mover among its competitors.
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- NegativeEV · hn · 2026-07-30 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Florida Construction Company · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- InsureEstimate · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.36
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a vertical saas tool for Insurance yet.