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Show HN: I recreated Papers Please but you're deciding which YC startups to fund
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Doesn't credit the original creator at all in the actual website?
Comment on Hacker News · 3 direct repliesI found the document management way too confusing. There's no clear game loop and I'm kinda lost what signatures mean, what the other documents are what success is. Papers please has a much simple mental model.
Comment on Hacker News · 1 direct replies1) It does too much too quickly. There's no acclimatisation ramp. 2) The examination area's too small. Almost every document is too large & has multiple pages. Navigation through documents is broken, with some not draggable back to the booth if clicked on. 3) Question responses are likewise too small for their dialogue boxes. They need to be in one box, either with larger boxes or smaller fonts.
Comment on Hacker NewsWould be interesting if we could plot the average amount of time spent on the creation of showhn stuff that gets to the front page, over the past years.
Comment on Hacker News · 1 direct repliesThe primary game mechanic of stamping 'Pass' to fail a funding application is a bit confusing; should label that stamp 'Fail'/'Decline'/'Deny' or even 'Do not fund'. Pass as in to 'pass on the opportunity to fund' i.e. to not agree to fund, is not the same as Pass as in 'passed the criteria for funding' i.e. to agree to fund. To many people, Pass and Fail are antonyms, not synonyms.
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Comment on Hacker News · 1 direct repliesMaybe I'm stupid but I quit after 5 minutes because I had no idea what was going on with the documents.
Comment on Hacker NewsI mean, technically you didn't recreate anything. You had the LLM pattern recognize something that already existed and it copied it. I don't mean to sound harsh, but create something new.
Comment on Hacker News · 5 direct repliesThis incredible; i will have a lot of fun with this
Comment on Hacker NewsThis is a good way to explain the term sheets and the things to check.
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