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Re:Show HN: Have fun betting virtual (not real) money on pre... by rose_ann_ on Thursday November 24, 2022 @05:36PM (#33737026)
Took roughly 2 weeks from start to finish. Work as a web dev in an accounting firm. As to the choice of the phone, got a Samsung Galaxy A23 on takealot.com a while back and decided to use it to build a site
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Re:Show HN: Have fun betting virtual (not real) money on pre... by quadrature on Thursday November 24, 2022 @05:43PM (#33737073)
Now you have a second job updating the prediction outcomes :P. I was thinking it would be cool to sync them from github so folks could contribute an outcome.
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Re:Show HN: Have fun betting virtual (not real) money on pre... by rose_ann_ on Thursday November 24, 2022 @05:53PM (#33737135)
Lol, a second job? I sincerely hope not.

I don't think the site'll garner much interest though. Betting virtual money doesn't really seem like a mainstream activity.

Just wanted to put it out in the wild and get critiques.

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Re:Show HN: Have fun betting virtual (not real) money on pre... by NavinF on Thursday November 24, 2022 @09:30PM (#33738526)
> Betting virtual money doesn't really seem like a mainstream activity.

You'd be surprised: https://www.metaculus.com/

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Re:Show HN: Have fun betting virtual (not real) money on pre... by olalonde on Thursday November 24, 2022 @06:26PM (#33737351)
Did you type the code on the phone's touch screen or using an external keyboard?
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Re:Show HN: Have fun betting virtual (not real) money on pre... by yjk on Friday November 25, 2022 @08:31PM (#33748927)
From the OP:

"I wanted to see how difficult it would be to build a web app using a sub-$300 android smartphone"

I guess a fun challenge of sorts.

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