Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont. • Hacker News Board

Re: Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.

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Post by AndrewKemendo » Sat, Oct 11, 2014, 1:34 AM UTC

tokenadult wrote: post #70

This is actually an intriguing business idea. I believe that most of the upvotes the submission is getting here are genuine expressions of interest in a radically different idea. (It's also fun to make snarky comments about this submission.) I won't be snarky here, but will suggest a news story of related interest. Journalist A. J. Jacobs turned on his full sense of humor as well as his honesty when he wrote a story…

This basic idea was my first startup back in 2007 before the Startup boom. Obviously didn't really go anywhere but if someone wanted to do it, it would be much easier now with smartphones and a consumer group that is more receptive to this kind of thing.

We were even written up in the Houston press: http://www.houstonpress.com/2007-10-11/news/night-of-terror/...

Re: Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.

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Post by zamabe » Sat, Oct 11, 2014, 1:48 AM UTC

jtheory wrote: post #116

I, personally, cannot imagine any question to which I would get a more valuable answer from a 28-year-old software engineer in California interested in finance, men's fashion and weightlifting than I would get from my wife, family, friends and peers -- people who know me; whose lives actually overlap with mine in some way. What is "telling it like it is" if you don't share the same context? How likely is it he can pi…

> I imagine myself paying $10 and asking "hey, what do you think of my outfit tonight?" And he would kindly inform me that my chances of scoring (or whatever they call it these days) wearing these sandals, hiking pants (pull these zippers and they become shorts!) and grey kinda stretched-out long-sleeve t-shirt are next to zero. But my Friday night activity was going out with my wife, toddler & 5-year-old to have dinner with a bunch of retired English expats in the middle of nowhere in central France.

I imagine you meant to include at least a modicum of detail to establish the context of your question to get any value out of your $10; or maybe you just wanted [to imagine] the exchange to be frustrating.

Re: Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.

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Post by mjnaus » Sat, Oct 11, 2014, 1:53 AM UTC

newobj wrote: post #169

jczhang wrote: post #164

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Dude, what a troll comment.

Brutal honesty. Dot io.

Well, this whole thing IS about being honest...

Re: Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.

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Post by SiVal » Sat, Oct 11, 2014, 1:58 AM UTC

jerguismi wrote: post #140

RainSunshine wrote: post #135

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I am not sure what the point of that comment is.

It is that people in any kind of business pay much more than $10 for quite bad advice. $10 is quite a small investment.

I'm usually willing to offer bad advice and uninformed opinions for free, so what is his competitive advantage?

Re: Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.

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Post by bikamonki » Sat, Oct 11, 2014, 2:02 AM UTC

Hahahaha only in California!

Re: Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.

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Post by drawkbox » Sat, Oct 11, 2014, 2:29 AM UTC

This guy has turned Larry David's social assassin service into a business. I can see similar services popping up such as ask a New Yorker and ask a southie where people are real. Real opinions outside of high school may be marketable.

Re: Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.

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Post by nzealand » Sat, Oct 11, 2014, 2:55 AM UTC

jtheory wrote: post #116

I, personally, cannot imagine any question to which I would get a more valuable answer from a 28-year-old software engineer in California interested in finance, men's fashion and weightlifting than I would get from my wife, family, friends and peers -- people who know me; whose lives actually overlap with mine in some way. What is "telling it like it is" if you don't share the same context? How likely is it he can pi…

But your friends have been lying to you.

About your website/app/resume/outfit.

You need to know the truth.

How can you afford to not know?

Re: Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.

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Post by hashtree » Sat, Oct 11, 2014, 2:59 AM UTC

alxdistill wrote: post #102

alxdistill wrote: post #92

Okay. I did it, paid my $10 bucks and waiting for an email. I actually run a much more expensive, competing service: http://talkshopwithus.com

Here's Jordan's first email: ----------------------------- Hey there, Thanks for buying Brutal Honesty. What can I help you with? Ask away. Cheers Jordan ----------------------------- And then this is my reply: ----------------------------- Hi Jordan, So I was hoping to get your honest opinion on a business idea I'm working on. It's a bit similar to your business I guess. Here's our site: http://talkshopwithus.com Le…

Here is a free one: The "See More Creatives" link 404s hitting against makers.html

Re: Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.

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Post by aplummer » Sat, Oct 11, 2014, 3:14 AM UTC

floatingatoll wrote: post #168

RainSunshine wrote: post #121

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He isn't trying to suggest this is a service which everyone will find useful or interesting. It actually takes a lot of honesty with yourself to even understand why you might need this service. Thousands of people every day make decisions on their own, or on the advice of others, which are badly informed decisions. This guy could help them. For $10, he isn't going to send you a 5 word email and ignore you forever. He…

> If you say "No bro, I am not looking to score" he will ask "OK, well what are your intentions? What is your actual concern with your outfit?" RainSunshine, you registered at HN today and have posted only on this post and nowhere else, speaking with high confidence about how a random person on the Internet will respond to specific example questions. What is your relation to Jordan and/or this site?

Holy telling it like it is!

Re: Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.

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Post by BorisMelnik » Sat, Oct 11, 2014, 3:17 AM UTC

floatingatoll wrote: post #168

RainSunshine wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He isn't trying to suggest this is a service which everyone will find useful or interesting. It actually takes a lot of honesty with yourself to even understand why you might need this service. Thousands of people every day make decisions on their own, or on the advice of others, which are badly informed decisions. This guy could help them. For $10, he isn't going to send you a 5 word email and ignore you forever. He…

> If you say "No bro, I am not looking to score" he will ask "OK, well what are your intentions? What is your actual concern with your outfit?" RainSunshine, you registered at HN today and have posted only on this post and nowhere else, speaking with high confidence about how a random person on the Internet will respond to specific example questions. What is your relation to Jordan and/or this site?

everyones gotta start somewhere