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Pokewalk
- minimaxir 10y agoNote: Parody
- ebiester 10y agoThere needs to be a corollary to Poe's law for startups.
- Natsu 10y agoYeah, but if this isn't real, someone will probably make it real by the end of the week. But why use humans? Phones are tiny. They should be dispatching their fleet of drones to your front door and flying directly to all the best Pokemon catching spots.
- jayess 10y agoI get a blank white page.
- mortenjorck 10y agoMimicking the stability of the game itself, I see. (Seriously, Pokémon Go has to be the buggiest launch of its scale that I've seen.)
- cremno 10y agoHTTPS Everywhere? Disable the Wix static.com ruleset.
- bpchaps 10y agoSorry, but no.
- kordless 10y agoHi. I'm one of the competitors to Pokewalk and I can assure you our servers are up and running, waiting to capture your Pokemon and money.
- gergles 10y agoYou need to enable JavaScript.
- janesvilleseo 10y agoThis is great. It's like the professional line waiters. Great stuff here. A+ Would recommend to all my trainers. /s
- ecesena 10y agoCan I be a walker? You should crowdsource your service, sharing economy is the future! :)
- CobrastanJorji 10y agoDoes taskrabbit have an API? If so, I bet I could implement this company in a couple of days.
- andrew13 10y agohttps://www.taskrabbit.com/platform https://www.taskrabbit.com/platform
- Willson50 10y agoI totally believed this until the $4MM of funding line.
- joshdickson 10y agoExactly. If it were real they could have done at least $10M.
- walrus01 10y agoIf "Yo" can raise $1.5m of funding at a $10m valuation... https://techcrunch.com/2014/07/18/yo-raises-1-5m-in-funding-at-a-10m-valuation-investors-include-betaworks-and-pete-cashmore/ https://techcrunch.com/2014/07/18/yo-raises-1-5m-in-funding-...
- skewart 10y agoYeah, sadly the bit just before that about them putting their heads together "to create something that could have a real impact on the lives of millions" doesn't really give it away. It's too believable that a real startup offering this product would use that language these days.
- melvinmt 10y ago#neverforget Color once raised $40MM pre-launch... anything can happen in SV.
- surds 10y agoI was shaking my head in disbelief till I came to the $4M funding line. Then I was totally amused. That is one elaborate hoax. Wonder what email they send when we sign up.
- hatsunearu 10y agoShould I feel bad if I initially believed it?
- surds 10y agoI did believe it till I read through half the page. Also, their description of the tech stack is humorous.
- CM30 10y agoThey don't seem to send any email when you sign up. Just tested it on a disposable email address just now. Wonder what they'd actually do with the data from this though. Or heck, whether the form actually does anything at all.
- BryantD 10y agoNon-satire versions: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/lbs/5678169186.html http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/lbs/5678169186.html & http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/pas/5676674461.html http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/pas/5676674461.html This does, of course, violate Niantic's ToS.
- minimaxir 10y agoAnd if you are going to violate the ToS, might as well skip the half-measure and spoof the GPS.
- sushid 10y agoI think Niantic's going to have a harder time figuring out if you handed your phone off to another person vs. are using a GPS spoofer.
- minimaxir 10y agoThis raises a fun question: is it possible to spoof accelerometer/gyroscope data such that it convincingly matches the corresponding movement of a spoofed GPS?
- astrange 10y agoPut your phone on a turntable. If they start checking for that, a really long conveyor belt.
- jerkstate 10y agoYes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid... I temporarily defeated a GPS-based AR game about 5 years ago by writing a transparent proxy that could automate repetitive tasks and spoof location data. I'm sure it's possible with Pokemon Go although it probably has pretty sophisticated protections against that sort of shenanigans.
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- jonah 10y agoRelatedly: "Entrepreneurs Are Offering Uber-Style Rides For Pokémon Go Players" http://gizmodo.com/entrepreneurs-are-offering-uber-style-rides-for-pokemon-1783453321 http://gizmodo.com/entrepreneurs-are-offering-uber-style-rid...
- kordless 10y agoTake my phone and take my money!!!
- smspillaz 10y agoI like how the map shows the walking route as down 6th street.
- peternilson 10y agoNow if only they made some claim about how they were using ML the parody would be 110% complete.
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- etr71115 10y agoDefinitely shipped too late; no one would be embarrassed by this. (fully aware it's a parody)
- sandworm101 10y agoWhy isn't this a real thing? It may be a joke, but services that play a game for you are a real thing. WoW players have for years been able to hire firms to level-up their characters. Having someone walk your phone seems far more honest than sharing your login creds. (I don't really understand the necessity of walking. Does this game reward distance travelled?)
- cableshaft 10y agoYou can get eggs at Pokestops that will hatch into Pokemon after putting them in an incubator and walking a specific amount of distance. Or without the jargon, yes, some parts of the game reward you for distance travelled.
- frank_jaeger 10y ago>TECHNOLOGY Our technology stack is a unique use of complicated algroithms... Sold
- tristanj 10y agoI wouldn't pay for this ... on iOS it's very simple to spoof your location with Xcode. Xcode even has a feature where you can upload a list of GPS points and it will "walk" your device along the path over a period of time. Here's a video showing how it's done https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vqOWCNuZD4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vqOWCNuZD4 I'm sure something similar exists for Android.
- reddytowns 10y agoThat's like claiming artificial diamonds are as good as natural ones. The distribution of the kinds of pokemons you'd collect using such a method won't be same as real walking would give you. Any expert would be able to see the difference, and you'd be a laughing stock at all the country club parties.
- tristanj 10y ago> That's like claiming artificial diamonds are as good as natural ones. Really? In my comment I never claimed anything of the sort. There's only one claim in my comment, which is that a similar feature does exist on Android. I found one after a 2 second Google search. http://www.jesusamieiro.com/android-studio-simulate-multiple-gps-points-with-mock-location-plugin/ http://www.jesusamieiro.com/android-studio-simulate-multiple... > The distribution of the kinds of pokemons you'd collect using such a method won't be same as real walking would give you. That's a very bold claim. Care to source this? > Any expert would be able to see the difference, and you'd be a laughing stock at all the country club parties. And now I think you're just being facetious.
- reddytowns 10y agoSorry, it was kind of a dumb joke
- ourmandave 10y agoAw, this begs for a FitBit tie in.
- tedmiston 10y ago> TECHNOLOGY > Our technology stack is a unique use of complicated algroithms meant to optimize Pokewalker efficiency which leads to lower costs for you. We optimize for both the distance the walker will cover and how they will get back to drop off your device. Our backpack technology is derived from the same battery technology as The Tesla Powerwall. Probably the best part. Their startup parody skills are on point.
- chdir 10y agoOn-premises version : https://www.amazon.com/s/?field-keywords=treadmill https://www.amazon.com/s/?field-keywords=treadmill
- CM30 10y agoHonestly, I would have to believed it was real if I hadn't seen the point about funding. Remember, some people actually pay money to have their new Pokemon games hacked in advance so they don't need to spend the time filling out the Pokedex. Or so they have a 'tournament level' team from the minute they start the game. If people are willing to pay for that stuff in regards to the main series, they'd probably find an audience for this 'service' too.