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Re: Vooza

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Post by egallardo » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 5:31 PM UTC

oacgnol wrote: post #17

Doomed to fail; they never mentioned scalability. How do they expect to grow to millions of users without web scale technologies?

Or disruption. Which 5 industries is Vooza going to disrupt?

Re: Vooza

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Post by creativityland » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 5:32 PM UTC

Favorite part: Then we can go... International.

Re: Vooza

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Post by smoyer » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 5:32 PM UTC

I enjoyed the satire in the video like most of the commentators below, but I have to admit I almost entered my e-mail address just to see what they'd send from a site that's obviously a spoof. (I didn't)

I'm really hoping that they're collecting as much demographics about the visitors and those who do enter their e-mail as possible. Wouldn't that make an amazing social experiment?

Re: Vooza

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Post by paulgb » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 5:32 PM UTC

nateberkopec wrote: post #3

Just in case: this is satire. Hilarious satire.

Reminds me of Zombocom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombo.com / http://www.zombo.com)

Re: Vooza

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Post by sp332 » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 5:35 PM UTC

JonnieCache wrote: post #15

Woefully inaccurate: it has vowels in the name. In fact, mostly vowels in the name. Also, collegehumor did this better a year ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMmdl4VltD4 For that matter, so did Color.

Or this more tech-oriented one from 2006: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmo1ef7tVso

Re: Vooza

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Post by kposehn » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 5:36 PM UTC

JonnieCache wrote: post #15

Woefully inaccurate: it has vowels in the name. In fact, mostly vowels in the name. Also, collegehumor did this better a year ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMmdl4VltD4 For that matter, so did Color.

"For that matter, so did Color."

That is an epic burn.

Re: Vooza

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Post by rokhayakebe » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 5:52 PM UTC

JonnieCache wrote: post #15

Woefully inaccurate: it has vowels in the name. In fact, mostly vowels in the name. Also, collegehumor did this better a year ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMmdl4VltD4 For that matter, so did Color.

FWIW I believe the original promess of color, creating on-the-fly location based social networks, was a game-changing concept. It's bad they did not stick with it despite a failed launch.

Re: Vooza

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Post by kposehn » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 6:00 PM UTC

My apologies if anyone was offended by the original title - I should of course point out that it is satire :)

Re: Vooza

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Post by leot » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 6:10 PM UTC

It seems this has been disappeared from HN.

Was it flagged too many times, or something?

Re: Vooza

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Post by dguaraglia » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 6:16 PM UTC

Although I find it as funny as everyone else, I also think there's a cautionary tale in there, somewhere.

A little over a year ago I did a few months of contracting for a company that was exactly like Vooza: buzzwords-galore, moving goalposts every month, no revenue model to speak of besides borrowing more money from investors... a complete and utter disaster.

I don't know where those guys are nowadays, and I truly don't care, but to me as a developer those months were a massive waste of time and energy drain.

So the lesson to learn is: before you agree to work for anyone, no matter how much money/equity they promise you "when VC money comes in" do your due diligence, a critical assessment of the company and ask the hard questions before committing to anything. You'll thank me later.