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The Jackplot
A slot machine for story premises.
The Jackplot is a random story premise generator. It requires no login or account to use, but if you do log in with a simple email address (it sends a "magic link") you can save the premises you spin up, to refer back to them or download them later. It does a couple things under the hood to weight against individual results on each wheel as you spin (just during that browser session), but it never "eliminate" a word. You can also lock the wheels if you only want to "re-spin" one or two.
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So I've picked up screenwriting as a hobby, and one of the things I've noticed is that I sometimes get bogged down looking for a "perfect story idea". Plus I just liked the idea of "random" ideas sometimes sparking a different but related one in my mind. I used to use an app called "The Brainstormer"... it was available on iOS ages ago and was a Flash app on the web, neither of them exist any longer, as far as I can tell. So I went about creating my own. I liked it so much I figured I'd open it to other folks. There are 535,709 completely unique possible combinations, 872,210 if you consider that some premise sentences can exist in multiple genres, and thus, are different stories. (E.g., the same conflict/setting/subject in a Comedy and an Action story could be very different.) The system leans "movie premise" because that's my use, but I don't think it's limiting to other media. And it tries to be completist in the basic story genres: Drama, Comedy, Action, Thriller, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Western.
About The Jackplot on Product Hunt
“A slot machine for story premises.”
The Jackplot was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #30 on the daily leaderboard. The Jackplot is a random story premise generator. It requires no login or account to use, but if you do log in with a simple email address (it sends a "magic link") you can save the premises you spin up, to refer back to them or download them later. It does a couple things under the hood to weight against individual results on each wheel as you spin (just during that browser session), but it never "eliminate" a word. You can also lock the wheels if you only want to "re-spin" one or two.
On the analytics side, The Jackplot competes within Writing and Side Project — topics that collectively have 64.6k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how The Jackplot performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
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The Jackplot was hunted by Steve Paulo. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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