Friendly prediction markets to turn trips into a running tournament
Details
- External ID
- 47916958
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Friendly prediction markets to turn trips into a running tournament
- Website domain
- bernikins.com
- Launched
- April 27, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.11182519280205655
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
On a trip with my friend, he introduced me to Kalshi and Polymarket and was shocked at how degenerate it was being able to bet on literally anything. So naturally I built an app ironically where we could do the same thing (with fake money) on group outings!Managed to get a prototype finished in time for our big 14-person annual ski trip and we had a blast 'betting' on things like "Will [friend that always breaks his phone] break his phone?" and "Who will win the first game of Jackbox?" Having a low-stakes running leaderboard during our trip was so fun that I decided to flesh it out and share it with others for their trips, wacky professors, etc.*How It Works*1. Create a group for your trip and give your friends the group code to join.2. Everyone starts with the same amount of Tokens/Points/Ski-bux that they can wager on each question.3. Place bets on the options that you think will win - the more bets on an option, the more it costs to pick that option.4. Anyone can propose when an outcome has happened and everyone gets 24 hours to dispute it.5. Every share of the winning option pays out as 1 Token once the 24 hours has passed. So if you bet 2 tokens when the odds were 50%, you win 4 Tokens!Please let me know what you think and what features I should add to make it even more fun for your friend groups!---Requires an account to use, but feel free to use this test account if you just want to peek around: (u: [email protected] - p: 11111111)Also available on:Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bernikins....iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bernibets/id6761561613
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI agent games and chess tools
- Vertical
- Travel & hospitality
- Function
- Marketplace
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- prediction market game for group travel
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A casual prediction market with play money for friends is a straightforward web app with simple user auth, market creation, and ledger-based balance tracking.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #70 of 74 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 178 days after the earliest competitor.
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