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Buster
@buster · PM, Slack
Question for Product Hunters: how should the scoring system be designed? My first thought is that you should get reputation points of some sort for being able to be near the median on current valuations, and the valuation a year from now (based on the median current valuation in a year). It could get more creative though... thoughts? The goal being to make t… See more
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This is a very simple prototype of a game to see how good we are at predicting the current and future valuations of existing companies. I'd love any and all feedback and am open to questions.
Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
You think Product Hunt's valuation will be only $30M one year from now, @buster!? Challenge accepted. :)
This is an awesome idea, although I wish we could place shorter term bets, where the "reward" of winning comes much less than 1 year out. Of course the challenge with private companies is that most data isn't public. Any thoughts on this, @buster?
Nathan Bashaw
@nbashaw · Co-founder and CEO of Hardbound
Nice little SEO touch - the page titles for specific companies are "How much is CompanyName worth? • Valleyball"
Brian Krall
@bkrall · Lead Front-end Developer, Tovala
Just added a link back to Product Hunt from each company page.
Also, surprised to see the median prediction for Yo at $300M.
http://i.imgur.com/Xev01A6.png