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MAGA or Not? Political alignment scores for people and companies

Details

External ID
47480192
Source
HN
Company
—
Product
MAGA or Not? Political alignment scores for people and companies
Website domain
magaornot.ai
Launched
March 22, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
7
Upvotes percentile
0.4108241082410824
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Description

I wanted a way for people to support companies and people that align with their political beliefs. Additionally, I think it can serve as a valuable, source-linked public ledger of who said and did what over time, especially as incentives change and people try to rewrite their positions.This is fully AI-coded, researched, and sourced.Additionally, AI helped develop the scoring system. The evidence gathering is done by a number of different agents through OpenRouter that gather and classify source-backed claims. The point of that is not to pretend bias disappears, but to avoid me manually selecting the evidence myself. I intend for it to remain current and grow. The system is close to fully automated, though ongoing evidence collection at scale is still limited mostly by cost.The name is an homage to the early days of Web 1.0 and Hot or Not, which was a main competitor of mine as the creator of FaceTheJury.com, but I think it works well here.The backend and frontend are running on Cloudflare Workers with D1. It's coded in vanilla JavaScript.

Enrichment

Theme
browser automation and scraping for AI
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Analytics & BI
Audience
B2C
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
political alignment scoring system
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes It is a standard directory website with a searchable database of curated entities, scoring metrics, and citation links.

Discussion

3 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: OpenAI's deep research

Concerns raised: Token cost and potential for abuse with scoring ladder, Recency bias in evidence evaluation

Feature requests: Chrome extension for scores on Twitter/X profiles and websites, On-demand scoring by providing name and social media/blog links, Controlled ladder system for evidence gathering

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 38 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #24 of 39 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 130 days after the earliest competitor.

Other launches for this product

Same idea, different domain

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