SillycoValley: Write Code, Build Your Startup

https://sillycovalley.com/?myscore

by kuberwebnetes • 3 years ago

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azinman2• 3 years ago

I got 18k users for demo day. Totally unclear if that’s good or bad.

winrid• 3 years ago

I did too. I just put all money into marketing lol

Supply5411• 3 years ago

Do everything as fast as possible, seems about right

simonhamp• 3 years ago

3 marketers, 1 dev. Keep smashing. Fix the bugs = 44k DAU for demo day

Honestly a great piece of subversive commentary on the state of startups generally - I guess applies even more so on the Valley

krishadi• 3 years ago

Nice marketing strategy for fairpixels ! Haha...

laurent_du• 3 years ago

Couldn't help checking it out.

simbolit• 3 years ago

90649 DAU, two or three devs, one marketer.

Sirikon• 3 years ago

96k users for demo day. Hire all the marketing and fire them before money runs dry. Scary accurate.

csa• 3 years ago

586k

- 1 dev 3 marketers at end

- 1 dev and 1 marketer at start

- add second marketer relatively soon

- add third marketer when burn will let you

- mash a lot of buttons

Mandatum• 3 years ago

Waiting for the JS bot..

apimade• 3 years ago

setInterval(function(){document.getElementById("write_code").click();document.getElementById("promote_product").click();document.getElementById("create_design").click();document.getElementById("fixDevIssues").click();},100);

9.18 Billion DAU after pumping marketing up at the start, and then firing everyone while we coast on organic growth before we run out of money.

lionkor• 3 years ago

"I think I've worked there!"

KronisLV• 3 years ago

9.18 Billion DAU after pumping marketing up at the start, and then firing everyone while we coast on organic growth before we run out of money.

Got around 1 billion DAU, but the daily revenue was about 5$. Ouch, maybe should have charged per install, or maybe just make a game engine and add a runtime fee.

imjonse• 3 years ago

700 users on demo day. Too much writing code is bad for you.

wrboyce• 3 years ago

demo day arrived and you've rallied 956,685 daily active users

1 dev and 3x marketing but let two go as demo day approached (and my funds approached zero).

sachahjkl• 3 years ago

1.3 Million daily active users hehe

ChrisArchitect• 3 years ago

Fix the url

Original Show HN: from the creator just over a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37021661

searchableguy• 3 years ago

1.5 million users

Hired 6 marketers. 1 dev and designer initially but let go after initial user growth.

Then I fired all 6 marketers and the funds stayed same or increased.

There should be a sales and monetization option after demo day.

Another one using script to automate clicking: https://cln.sh/F6kqFLLL

40 billion users by hiring everyone with team to marketers ratio of 1:3. Slowly fired non-marketing team members and moved to firing marketing near the demo day.

100 billion on another try by pumping marketing up initially to gain organic growth then coasting by using 2 developers until demo day

Whiteshadow12• 3 years ago

Easily getting to 300k using this strategy, not yet breaking into the million bracket.

swyx• 3 years ago

TFW when your OKRs require quintupling Earth's population

imsurajkadam• 3 years ago

I am not able to get it over 1700+ users mannnn

dpkirchner• 3 years ago

The text next to the people's faces are actually secret buttons, tapping them helps a lot.

Jordrok• 3 years ago

Holy crap, I played the game multiple times and had no idea those were even clickable until I saw this comment.

mblode• 3 years ago

3.2 million users - 1 dev - 1 marketer - 1 designer

mattbrewsbytes• 3 years ago

Interesting marketing technique to put out a "game" that has things like "hire fairpixels.io" which does UI/UX design for startups (edit: its the company that built the game).

Anyone ever play Tom Clancy's Ruthless.com? A PC game borne out of the dot com era. I think it had elements of a MS style company doing monopolistic things and open source as well. I might have to dig it out and see if it runs on modern hardware.

beanjuiceII• 3 years ago

I just hired all developers and won seems like a good recipe

thdc• 3 years ago

A quick glance at the script (I may have missed important parts) shows that everyone costs the same so you should only need to consider the effectiveness of the type of hire; every type has a manual click button effect and a daily automatic effect that scales with count which affect growth and product quality which affect users and valuation.

Developer:

write code: growth + 0.3, quality + 0.2

automatic: (growth + 0.3, quality + 0.1) * developers

Designer:

create design: growth + 0.1, quality + 0.2

automatic: (growth + 0.2, quality + 0.1) * designers

Marketer

promote product: growth + 0.5

automatic: growth + 0.5 * marketers

And quality caps out at 4. So I guess focus on hiring developers/marketers and writing code until product quality is 4, then just marketers until you run out of money. Poor designers...

karmakaze• 3 years ago

I get a weird feeling playing this game, imagining that I'm a CEO that doesn't actually know the details of what developers, Marketing, and Design actually do, but I'm optimizing it based on external feedback only. This gives a plausible account of how many bad decisions can be made in good faith without better two-way internal communication.

opyate• 3 years ago

Relatedly, when viewing human resources as numbers on a screen, then it's so easy to let them go when they don't fit in with the exec strategy.

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