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Pulse - Call live football moments and build your Match IQ

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Pulse turns watching football into playing. Predict before kickoff, answer live YES or NO questions as real match moments happen, earn points, and build Match IQ from Debutant to Legend. Battle friends on four leaderboards. No betting. Free on iOS and Android.

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Hey Product Hunt, I am Cristian, founder of Pulse and a Bucharest based football obsessive. Quick background: I played for the Moldova U15 national team, then spent 14 years designing game experiences, including EA Sports FC and lead UX on the football game UFL. Here is the itch I could not scratch. Watching a match is passive. You shout, you refresh a group chat full of hot takes nobody can prove. There is banter but no score. So we built the score. Pulse is a live game layer you play while the real match happens: 1. Make your calls before kickoff 2. Answer live YES or NO questions triggered by real moments as they happen 3. Earn points, climb leaderboards, grow your Match IQ across five tiers from Debutant to Legend Honest framing: this is a public beta, soft launched during the World Cup. Rough edges remain and your feedback today shapes what we build next. The timing is wild: France vs Spain, a World Cup semifinal, kicks off tonight. Try Pulse live during it. One question for you: what live moment in a match would you most want Pulse to ask you about?

Love the concept of making match watching interactive without the gambling angle. One thing that would keep me coming back is a quick post-match recap showing which live questions I got right and what my best streak was, so I can actually track how my Match IQ grows over a season instead of just seeing a score.

Maker

 
Thank you Masal, and you just described something we've been sketching: a post-match summary with your correct calls, your streak, and how your Match IQ moved that match. Hearing it from the first comment on launch day moves it up the list.

Right now you can see your Match IQ progress across five tiers (Debutant to Legend) and your quarter by quarter performance, but the "season story" view you're describing is the natural next step. What would matter more to you in that recap: the streak bragging rights or the IQ growth curve?

If you want to see how it feels live, England vs Argentina kicks off tonight

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The live YES or NO questions during matches hit different when your group chat is arguing about a call in real time. Match IQ feels like a nice touch for bragging rights beyond just the score.

Maker

 That group chat argument moment is literally the founding scene of this product. Someone says "he's going to score", someone laughs, and thirty seconds later nobody remembers who said what. Now there's a receipt.

And you nailed Match IQ's job: the score resets every match, but IQ follows you. It's the difference between winning a night and being known as the one who reads the game.

Tonight's semifinal (England vs Argentina, 10pm CET) is the perfect stress test if you're around:


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Maker

tonight's match on Pulse is England vs Argentina, 10pm CET. Messi's last World Cup semifinal. If you're checking Pulse out today, this is the one to play live.

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Come find me on the leaderboard tonight.