LiveGames
Parlor
Ten ways to play one nightly question bank
Parlor is a house of ten trivia rooms over one question bank, each a different way to play: a Jeopardy board, a year-guessing clock, map pins, name-that-tune, a Connections grid, and more.
One pipeline forges the whole bank each night from Wikipedia, Deezer, Sleeper/ESPN, and TMDB, transformed with dbt over DuckDB so every room draws from the same clean, tested source.
What I learned
- Generating fair, unambiguous trivia automatically is brutal — most of the pipeline is rejection rules, not generation.
- dbt + DuckDB is a shockingly good local analytics stack for shaping content before it ever hits the app.