Would You Fund It? (repo: pitch-judge-investor-game)
Play: https://theguysaccount.github.io/pitch-judge-investor-game/ · Every pitch (spoilers): /deck/ · Screens: docs/screens
A daily startup-judgment game. You read real pitches as investors saw them, with the company name hidden: the year, the stage, the traction and the ask. You decide invest or pass, then see what actually happened and its source. Each outcome is one of three:
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🦄 Breakout: $1B+ via acquisition, IPO or private valuation;
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✅ Success: acquired or a lasting business below $1B;
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💥 Bust: shut down, bankrupt or sold off for a fraction.
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Daily: the same five pitches for everyone, by UTC date, with a Wordle-style share grid (🦄 ✅ ❌).
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Practice: ten at random, no limit.
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Case files: one page per pitch (76), titled for the searches people make ("Would you have funded Doorbot?").
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TV pitches: you are scored against what the show's investors actually did.
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Share cards for every score; an embeddable "today's pitch" widget.
No accounts, no cookies, nothing uploaded: results stay in the browser.
The deck
data/pitches.json: 76 pitches (1997-2019), with 24 breakouts, 18 successes and 34 busts. 11 come from a televised pitch show. Every pitch:
- is written in our own words from facts that were public at the time;
- has an outcome sourced to a public page (mostly Wikipedia, which cites the reporting);
- passes an automatic check that the visible pitch does not contain the company's distinctive name.
Busts make up 45% of the deck, so "always invest" scores badly.
How it runs (no human in the loop)
| Job | Workflow | When | Fails safe because |
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| Validate the deck, test, build, render share images, deploy to Pages, ping IndexNow | deploy.yml | on content or code pushes; weekly Monday 08:11 UTC; by hand | an invalid deck, a failed test or a failed build stops before deploy, and the last good deploy stays live |
| Live pages, deck, embed, and every cited source link | selftest.yml | weekly Thursday 06:29 UTC | read-only |
| Keep schedules alive | keepalive.yml | called by every scheduled workflow | runs even if the caller fails |
| Tests (Python 3.9/3.12 + Node) | ci.yml | every push | n/a |
New pitches and newly resolved outcomes come from a quarterly Claude routine (see OPERATIONS.md). The daily game needs no rebuild: the browser picks today's five from the date.
Layout
judge/data.py load + validate the deck (sources, tiers, anonymisation)
judge/site.py static site generator (game pages, case files, deck, score pages, embed, sitemap)
site/assets/ core.js (daily selection, scoring, share text), game.js, embed.js, app.js, style.css
data/ pitches.json (the deck), backlog.json (candidates awaiting outcomes)
scripts/ og.py (share images), indexnow.py, health.py (live + link check), screens.mjs
tests/ unittest suites + Node tests for core.js
Run, test, deploy
python3 -m judge.site # build dist/
python3 scripts/og.py dist # optional: share images with local Chrome
python3 -m http.server 4751 --directory dist
python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -t .
node --test tests/js.test.mjs
Deploys run from deploy.yml on push to main, or with gh workflow run deploy.yml.
Licence
Code MIT; deck text CC BY 4.0. Company names identify the companies described. A game, not investment advice.
