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Show HN: Genius – Live Quiz Game with Cash Prizes

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4 pointsJimSmith847 comments

Hi Everyone,

Wanted to show you my newest app: Genius. It's a live quiz game that you play on your phone every day at 8pm ET / 5pm PT. If you answer the questions correctly, you win real money. Tonight's game is just 5 questions with a cash prize of $100. It's still in "beta" so I would love feedback from you guys.

Some of you may recall that earlier this year I created MovieChat.org (here's the Show HN post that made it to the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13653948). MovieChat's still up and running (and doing well!) but I've been wanting to do something in interactive media for quite some time. Had originally planned Genius to focus solely on movie trivia (for the MovieChat community), but ultimately decided to broaden into other areas as well (like math and physics!).

I'll try to stick around on here and answer any questions. Hope to see you tonight!

Love the concept Jim. Been a moviechat member since you started the site in february. Looking forward to genius. Hopefully it's more movie questions and less math lol.

As a long time member of movie chat I’m excited to see how this game works. I play movie trivia games with other MC members all the time in the forums, but perhaps this could be a new format for us. Also, the cash prizes sound interesting (although I have no idea how you’re going to make money doing this).

Cool idea. Where does the money come from?

We've got a small group of early stage angels/investors. If it picks up, we'll likely go raise venture capital.

How does it earn money?

At the moment, it doesn't. Obviously if successful, probably some sort of ad/sponsor model. But that's a big IF and far into the future. At this point, it just gives away money :)

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