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Re: Vooza Mobile App

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Post by irollboozers »

dclowd9901 wrote: post #11

I'm a bit confused. I feel like this is an extremely old joke at this point. Aren't we all pretty keenly aware of the memes and absurdities that crowd the startup industry? Am I missing some unique or new observation being made that hasn't been made 50 times already by pretty much everyone?

If the hacker community ever loses the ability to laugh at itself, I would be worried. Taking yourself too seriously is not good for one's health.

Re: Vooza Mobile App

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Post by dclowd9901 »

dmix wrote: post #28
dclowd9901 wrote: post #11

I'm a bit confused. I feel like this is an extremely old joke at this point. Aren't we all pretty keenly aware of the memes and absurdities that crowd the startup industry? Am I missing some unique or new observation being made that hasn't been made 50 times already by pretty much everyone?

The first video satirizing the Apple-style "design process" promotional videos was great. The second video making fun of buzz words (cloud, social, local), acronyms (RSS, API) and startups being oblivious to making money is a really tired and overdone joke.

Yeah, I missed the "Apple" video the first time around. Much funnier than the second vid.

Re: Vooza Mobile App

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Post by sp332 »

dmix wrote: post #28
dclowd9901 wrote: post #11

I'm a bit confused. I feel like this is an extremely old joke at this point. Aren't we all pretty keenly aware of the memes and absurdities that crowd the startup industry? Am I missing some unique or new observation being made that hasn't been made 50 times already by pretty much everyone?

The first video satirizing the Apple-style "design process" promotional videos was great. The second video making fun of buzz words (cloud, social, local), acronyms (RSS, API) and startups being oblivious to making money is a really tired and overdone joke.

Always the same joke, only the buzzwords change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmo1ef7tVso (I think they're still funny).

Re: Vooza Mobile App

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Post by jbigelow76 »

sharkweek wrote: post #24
dclowd9901 wrote: post #11

I'm a bit confused. I feel like this is an extremely old joke at this point. Aren't we all pretty keenly aware of the memes and absurdities that crowd the startup industry? Am I missing some unique or new observation being made that hasn't been made 50 times already by pretty much everyone?

Taking it even a step further -- I'm jaded enough to believe they're actually going to piggyback off the promotion of this joke with a real product

Truth can be stranger than fiction, what you described already happened. Back when everybody was going gaga for Kevin Rose's "Milk" startup a parody mobile app beta that pre-oink'd Oink called Jotly put out a video kind of like the Vooza one. The developer of the parody vid actually went on to release the app.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/18/jotly-parodies-our-mobile-l...

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/13/jotly-lives-parody-app-goes...

Re: Vooza Mobile App

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Post by oacgnol »

Silhouette wrote: post #50

I'm sorry to put an honest start-up down, but we do actually have a patent pending within the US on using a combination of mobile, geotagging and social media mining to steal your data (and everything else you own), which we filed to protect investors in our new start-up, Robbrrr (formerly burgle.me, formerly @MyHouse). We too ran into a spot of legal trouble with our initial concept, but lawyers have assured us that…

I think this calls for a public shaming. Be sure to blog about it and post it to HN.
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