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Ask HN: Satire-fuelled tutorial for my app
A long time ago a brilliant idea struck my head and I made a funny tutorial for my product called Helpinator. I think I got nearly half of my customers thanks to it and very likely lost as much :) It used "Satan Remover" fake app as a tutorial subject to create a help file for. Unfortunately it is terribly outdated by now. I need some fresh ideas for a new fake app for this tutorial, both serious in terms of UI and satirically mocking current trends in IT, pop-culture and, probably, politics. I hate to say it, but I am stuck. The world now is a much darker place than it was, say, 5-10 years ago. "Hear a funky noise? That's the tightening of the screws" (C) The Rolling Stones.
I have some ideas though:
1. "Evil Genius To-do List", saying that it is registered to Satya Nadella with some freaking tasks related to Windows in it.
2. "Trump-o-line" - a fake game UI in the "tower defense" genre for building a wall to not let Mexicans in and bounce back those who managed to avoid it.
3. "USB Self-consciousness checker" - shows how close your smart device connected to a USB port is to becoming self-aware. With "Samsung S7" being 100% self-conscious and heading for a suicide.
4. "Who is watching?" - shows names, photos and bios of government agents looking at you through your webcam right now.
5. May be I should take a deeper dive into absurdism and write a lengthy detailed manual about a blank app - no buttons or menus or anyting - with philosophical intermissions about implications of "not doing it is better than doing it wrong"?
I am not quite satisfied with any of them. Do you like one of those? Or better, have your own? Of course your name will be honored on the "Tutorial" page if I like your idea.