✦3-16 players · 15 minOne line.
One round of funding.

Pitch a business that solves a problem only you have. Then find out whether anybody would have backed it.

Rounds

You get a link to send. 3-16 players, about 15 min. Nobody needs an account, including you.

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✦ Why it works

A pitch is a sentence.

Anybody can fill three minutes. The genuinely hard version is one line, which is also the version that matters, because that is the length at which an idea is either interesting or it is not.

Constraining everybody to the same box makes the comparison honest. Nobody wins this on delivery.

✦ Worth knowing

It is a better warm-up than it looks.

Run it before a planning session and something useful happens: people spend ten minutes practising the compression that a good proposal needs, and they do it while laughing rather than while being assessed.

About one round in five produces an idea somebody keeps thinking about. That is a better hit rate than most brainstorms.

✦ How to play

Three steps, and none of them is signing up.

1
Start a room

One link. Three to sixteen people.

2
Pitch in one line

A prompt per round, 80 characters each, all submitted blind.

3
Fund one

Every pitch appears anonymously and everybody backs one that is not their own.

✦ Questions

Startup pitch battle, answered.

No. The prompts are about ordinary problems rather than markets or funding rounds, and the game works just as well with a team that has never written a business plan.
About fifteen minutes for five rounds with eight people. The writing is the slow part; give it a minute per round.
No, it is disabled.
Yes. A point for every vote your pitches attract across the game, so the winner is whoever was consistently interesting rather than whoever had one good round.

The game is free forever.
The rest of it is the hard part.

EvyOS holds the goals, projects and tasks the team goes back to once the game is over.

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