Off By
a daily game about how wrong we are about the American economy
Details
- External ID
- 47501632
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Off By
- Website domain
- offby.io
- Launched
- March 24, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 12
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6439114391143912
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
We form opinions about wages, prices, and housing from vibes, headlines, and anecdotes. The actual numbers are usually somewhere unexpected.Off By is a daily game: five real economic statistics, you guess each one with a slider, then see how far off you were. Everyone plays the same questions on the same day.Average player is off by 25%. I'm usually in that range too.Free, no account needed.Curious whether HN skews more accurate than average, and always looking for statistics that are surprising but airtight. If you know a good one, feel free to drop it in the comments.
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI agent games and chess tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- daily economics trivia game
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A daily trivia game with slider inputs, score tracking, public economic statistics, and shareable result cards is a straightforward React web app perfectly suited for vibe coding.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: No option to turn sound off from menu, UI too dark overall, Hedge fund question too difficult/misleading, Question context potentially misleading (Germany vs US education costs)
Feature requests: Add sound toggle option to menu, Offer light-mode UI option, Improve 'sticky' aspect of game
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 96 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #46 of 97 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 146 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Tenish · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- My retired dad and I made a daily, somewhat difficult, quiz · hn · 2026-04-29 · 39 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Here's What You Do Daily Games · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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