For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team
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Re: For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team
#2This is marketing spam and doesn't belong on HN.
Re: For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team
#3This is marketing spam and doesn't belong on HN.
I didn't submit this link but I'm from this agency. Fair enough if you think it is, but we thought you might be interested in the tech at the bottom and the way we hacked some toy shock lighters to produce this!
Re: For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team
#4This is marketing spam and doesn't belong on HN.
No it's not - it's a fun side-project using tech we discuss regularly here on HN with interesting links too.
Climb down from your horse :)
Re: For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team
#5This is marketing spam and doesn't belong on HN.
If we started thinking like that we'd have to delete half the links on here.
Re: For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team
#6Funny and sadomasochistic, whats not to love? Maybe you should pretend a heart attack or something like that so you can scare the shocker back
Re: For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team
#7This is marketing spam and doesn't belong on HN.
I didn't submit this link but I'm from this agency. Fair enough if you think it is, but we thought you might be interested in the tech at the bottom and the way we hacked some toy shock lighters to produce this!
Even if we leave the tech aside, this is a good example of PR hacking, which I think is pretty relevant to a lot of people here. Congratulations to you and your team for spotting an opportunity and exploiting it.
edit : typo
Re: For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team
#8Congratulations to the team on marketing idea and technical implementation. It's really cool and fun.
On the other side, I don't like the kind of message you're trying to get across which is in a nutshell: "these are our monkey engineers, have fun with them". It's a little bit too self-deprecating and demeaning. I get that it's made in fun, but it buzzed me the wrong way.
Re: For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team
#9This is marketing spam and doesn't belong on HN.
I didn't submit this link but I'm from this agency. Fair enough if you think it is, but we thought you might be interested in the tech at the bottom and the way we hacked some toy shock lighters to produce this!
I posted this for the tech involved and I personally think it is very well done. Of course they did it for exposure and look, it's working; 5th on front page. Well done Alex, Tom and co!!