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You're assuming the app is a joke. I see no indication the app isn't real.
No, he is assuming the app is a joke app. Not that the app is a joke (not real), but that the app is a joke app (a fun app, made cheaply, not intended to "change the world", be the next Facebook, or promote a heavy business model).
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Obviously a joke. Obviously yet another reminder how cheap, easy, efficient, direct it is to start a company, create a startup, launch a product. Obviously the question isn't why is this trying so hard, but rather is why everyone else trying so hard. Obviously.
Selling humor on hn is like selling ice to Greenlanders.
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No, he is assuming the app is a joke app. Not that the app is a joke (not real), but that the app is a joke app (a fun app, made cheaply, not intended to "change the world", be the next Facebook, or promote a heavy business model).
That doesn't make it a joke app. By those standards almost all hobby apps are.
It is also given that the app in question is also a PIZZA COMPASS app, on top of all the other qualities.
I don't have sound at work so the video just appears to be a man waving a pizza slice around before I got bored and gave up. Is there anywhere on the site where it says what it does in writing?
Either way I think it's a terrible example of the decadence of western societies.
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Obviously a joke. Obviously yet another reminder how cheap, easy, efficient, direct it is to start a company, create a startup, launch a product. Obviously the question isn't why is this trying so hard, but rather is why everyone else trying so hard. Obviously.
Selling humor on hn is like selling ice to Greenlanders.
I really like the way the video was done, i.e. the video background keyed exactly to the page background, but IMO the video itself smacks of trying too hard. I think they tried to ape the Dollar Shave Club vibe and I don't think it went over.
OK, I haven't had time to download the app, but was curious about the description > PIZZA COMPASS IS THE EXCITING NEW LIFE-AFFIRMING IPHONE APP THAT HELPS PIZZA GET TO YOUR MOUTH. CREATED BY A HIGHLY SPECIALIZED TRAINED TEAM OF PIZZA EXPERTS. EXPERTS WHO ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT LIFE, LOVE, AND FRIENDSHIP. The screenshots featured famous pizzerias...so is the data "curated" by the pizza-compass staff? Or does it rely on…
This is really overthinking it, IMO. This app isn't a shot at Yelp or an attempt to disrupt the pizza space... It's a joke. You pay a dollar, you get a pizza compass. I think it's hilarious. The quotes on their page about "life-affirming" and "some people might say this is the most important app... ever" tell me that whoever made this app just wanted to have a bit of a laugh.
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Selling humor on hn is like selling ice to Greenlanders.
that would imply they have a lot of it already... I would suggest it's like selling swimming trunks to greenlanders :)
Interestingly, Greenland was given its name essentially as a marketing ploy by Erik the Red: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1965/shouldnt-green...
Greenland: https://www.google.com/search?q=greenland+country+temperatur...
Iceland: https://www.google.com/search?q=iceland+country+temperature&...