[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":453},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-40960508":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":29,"sentiment":30,"stance_mix":31,"scored_comments":36,"aspects":37,"strip":46,"post_text":48,"what":49,"said":79,"maker_in_thread":229,"shape":242,"grid":247,"attempts":415,"same_week":416,"maker_shows":41,"maker_hidden":445,"reader_version":446,"card":447},"40960508","Buzzinga","A Jeopardy game maker with buzzer support","title","Show HN: I built a Jeopardy game maker with buzzer support","https:\u002F\u002Fbuzzinga.io\u002F","buzzinga.io","Wolfmans55",1720959630,2024,284,69,229,3515,7,"legend","consumer_social","party game maker","web_app",[24,25,26,27,28],"jeopardy game maker","buzzer game","trivia game host","game show buzzer","party trivia","mixed",0.405,{"positive":32,"neutral":33,"mixed":34,"critical":35},18,12,0,5,35,{"idea":38,"design":40,"performance":43,"pricing":44,"privacy":45},{"positive":39,"critical":34},9,{"positive":41,"critical":42},1,4,{"positive":34,"critical":34},{"positive":34,"critical":34},{"positive":34,"critical":34},[35,41,35,47,34,47,35,34,35,47,34,34,35,34,47,34,41,34,35,47,41,47,47,47,35,35,35,35,35,47,35,35,47,35,35,35,47,41,41,35],3,"Sometime in early 2022, my wife and I started watching Jeopardy! regularly, almost by accident. Inspired, I thought it would be fun to create and host my own games with family and friends.\n\nBy September 2022, I debuted Buzzinga at a family reunion. Back then, it was just a website running locally on my MacBook. It was a total blast, and I knew this was something the world should enjoy too.\n\nI launched Buzzinga.io in December 2023 and have been rolling out regular updates for our 2000+ users ever since.\n\nFeatures:\n\n- Built-in buzzer support (phones and physical buzzers) - Automatic scorekeeping",{"problem":50,"audience":56,"pricing":65,"motivation":66,"time_to_build":65,"stack":70,"openness":77,"stage":78,"team_size":77},{"value":51,"source":52,"evidence":53},"Hosting Jeopardy-style trivia games with buzzers and automatic scorekeeping for friends and family","maker",[54],{"id":55},"post",{"value":57,"source":58,"evidence":59},"Families, friends, game nights, and fan panels","inferred",[60,61],{"id":55},{"id":62,"by":63,"text":64},"40962616","poopsmithe","Every other anime convention I go to has a fan panel featuring an interactive Jeopardy-style game. 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I have really enjoyed the \"Hacker Jeopardy\" at Derbycon and a few others and I will enjoy the…",{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},"40961112","iJohnDoe","Great job! Really well done. Congrats on launch!",{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},"40961583","willcipriano","I have no notes, this is really dialed in.",{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"40963457","thelazyorcas","This is super cool! I'm going to try in the next game night with my friends. Will let you know how it goes.",{"value":102,"source":83,"evidence":103},"Fills a long-wanted gap for buzzer-based trivia",[104,108],{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},"40961056","jonmb","For a few years I was hoping someone would create something like this, or I’d eventually do it myself. Thank you!",{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},"40960824","PaulMest","Very cool! I built a no-code version of this for my friends' birthdays where all of the clues were about them (inside jokes, dumb bets, catch phrases, etc). I just printed out…",[113,128],{"value":114,"source":83,"evidence":115},"Name and default colours look too close to Jeopardy and may invite legal trouble",[116,120,124],{"id":117,"by":118,"text":119},"40961289","dsr_","You're going to want to change the wording to \"Jeopardy-style\" rather than implying that it's a Jeopardy product. I would also recommend changing the default color scheme; it's…",{"id":121,"by":122,"text":123},"40961299","encomiast","This seems like a cease and desist letter waiting to happen. Are you worried that using the name “Jeopardy” and styling it so closely to the actual game might bring Sony lawyers…",{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"40962533","apgwoz","“I’m a lawyer for Sony Pictures Television, producers of the hit syndicated television show “Jeopardy.” While we appreciate our fans, we cannot allow this to continue. 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Is there any chance of open source?",{"value":152,"source":52,"evidence":153},"Offline mode with physical buzzers",[154],{"id":155,"by":11,"text":156},"40962678","I’d like to make an offline mode so you can connect physical buttons\u002Fbuzzers and not have to worry about connectivity\u002Flatency, etc.",{"value":158,"source":83,"evidence":159},"tvOS or TV app support",[160],{"id":161,"by":162,"text":163},"40962403","staplers","Make this a tvOS app and it would be perfect. Parties aren't fun if you have to lug out your laptop and hook up the hdmi to the tv.",{"value":165,"source":83,"evidence":166},"Host mode that reveals answers without a score",[167],{"id":168,"by":169,"text":170},"40961295","bfdm","This is really nice. Well done! I've had a jeopardy based toy project on the backburner for several years, with the north star goal of solving the problem I've had with every…",[172,179,186],{"value":173,"source":83,"evidence":174},"Is there pricing for use in a college quiz contest?",[175],{"id":176,"by":177,"text":178},"40966062","akam4n4n","Hi! this looks amazing. wanted to confirm what the pricing will look like? i want to try it out in a college quiz contest.",{"value":180,"source":83,"evidence":181},"Can you add your own questions and boards?",[182],{"id":183,"by":184,"text":185},"40964244","indus","is there a way to add our own questions\u002Fboard?",{"value":187,"source":83,"evidence":188},"Does it implement buzzer lockout?",[189],{"id":190,"by":191,"text":192},"40964876","re","Do you implement the Jeopardy!-style buzzer lockout or can contestants hit their buzzers as much as they want without penalty?…",[194,200,211,218],{"value":195,"source":52,"evidence":196},"jeopardylabs",[197],{"id":198,"by":11,"text":199},"40961368","It's possible, but there are other jeopardy game maker sites out there that charge money and have existed for 5-10+ years that do similar things but with \"Jeopardy\" actually in…",{"value":201,"source":83,"evidence":202},"sigame (Svoya Igra clone)",[203,207],{"id":204,"by":205,"text":206},"40965309","lame-lexem","There is actually a pretty cool clone of Svoja igra (russian jeopardy clone \u003Chttps:\u002F\u002Fru.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FСвоя_игра>) sigame \u003Chttps:\u002F\u002Fvladimirkhil.com\u002Fsi\u002Fgame> which is popular…",{"id":208,"by":209,"text":210},"40965567","notpushkin","This is cool, congrats on launching! Jeopardy is an extremely popular “playing in Discord with friends” activity in Russia \u002F CIS (called Svoya Igra here, lit. “own game”, or just…",{"value":212,"source":83,"evidence":213},"buzzin.live",[214],{"id":215,"by":216,"text":217},"40962905","sadeshmukh","only one I've seen so far is buzzin.live, which acts only as a buzzer (pretty good one at that)",{"value":219,"source":83,"evidence":220},"Jackbox-style games",[221,225],{"id":222,"by":223,"text":224},"40962837","jmpavlec","I've been working on a similar-ish project with native Chromecast support and Amazon TV and using phones\u002Ftablets\u002Flaptops as controllers. You can give it a look at…",{"id":226,"by":227,"text":228},"40966480","prakhar897","Great Implementation!! Jackbox games are ever more popular with remote work. There's a huge market for games like these. 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