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I made Word Nazi, which is essentially just a dirty version of Taboo (in the same way that Cards Against Humanity is a dirty version of Apples to Apples) in app

I made Word Nazi, which is essentially just a dirty version of Taboo (in the same way that Cards Against Humanity is a dirty version of Apples to Apples) in app form. Lessons learned: * I should've paid someone to do some decent graphics, turns out "minimalist aesthetic" is not the same as "no effort put in to design" * Making it a free demo, with the full game available as an in-app-purchase, sounds like a good deal for the user but in actuality sets off peoples' "IAP == crapware" alarm On the upside, I also made a fake corporate website (http://ineptech.com http://ineptech.com) to promote it and that was so much fun that I'd probably waste all that time again.

shallot_router 9y ago
That's an awesome website. Some highlights: >Here is a small sampling of our Services offerings: >GUID duplication >Lamp stacking >Despondency injection >We're hiring! If you're a best-in-breed, 10x, full-stack rock star, we want to talk to you about joining our "posse". Here's what we're looking for: >Senior Java Developer - Develop 15-20 Senior Javas per day Maybe you should try to monetize fake companies instead. You're good at it.
- ineptech 9y ago
  Thank you! I had a ton of fun with that, so there are a lot of cute details to find. (For example, check out where the social media "share" buttons on the blog posts go)
  - mustacheemperor 9y ago
    I'll second you've got a potential second career in comedy writing, my coworkers and I are currently nearly in tears reading this. Thanks for the Friday laughs.
    - ineptech 9y ago
      Thank you so much! I guess I should've posted it somewhere sooner...
      - shallot_router 9y ago
        That website would be a great portfolio example if you wanted to write for a show like Silicon Valley...
        nickpsecurity 9y ago
        I'm with you on that. The author is doing some great parodies. They should look into how people monetize such humor since it's the strong point. Only if author can keep it going, though.
bkmartin 9y ago
That site is one of the funniest things I've read in a while. Thank you!
gh1 9y ago
Congratulations on making this awesome fake website. I had a shit ton of fun going through it. You'd be a rockstar copywriter, if you are not one already.
- ineptech 9y ago
  I'm a QA guy, which may come out in some of the jokes, e.g.: Ineptech CEO Dick Hallerson wishes to apologize for describing the Quality Assurance group as a "necessary evil." Mr. Hallerson did not mean to imply that QA is necessary.
spacetimecake 9y ago
The Scrum Master job description totally cracked me up - Champion agile methodologies, hunt down and eliminate remaining waterfall advocates
ineptech 9y ago
For those checking out the ineptech site, please don't miss the poetry compiler joke! It's the bit I'm the most proud of. It's in an unlinkable modal so actually I'll just paste it here: Upon a stack of bits, about so tall, // Boolean[] isprime = new Boolean[n]; just think, O traveller, what we could do // Arrays.fill(isprime, true); if every other bit was set to false // for (int i = 4; i < n; i+=2) beginning with (but not including) two? // isprime[i] = false; Now take two lowly numbers, A and B // for (int a = 3; a < n; a += 2) that equal three and two. What would happen // { if they, by twos and ones respectively, // for (int b = 2; a*b < n; b++) were incremented in a nested fashion, // { And if we falsified, at every turn, // isprime[a*b] = false; the value offset by A groups of Bs? // } Then to the aether let those bits return, // } to fly back home to Eratosthenes! // return isprime; (You may have figured out that I put a lot more time in to the silly programmer jokes in the fake site than in to the app. Wonder why it never took off...)
- adzm 9y ago
  Code poetry is drastically underappreciated. I truly enjoyed this.
- pjc50 9y ago
  This is very, very nicely done. You can rightly be proud of that.
- roryisok 9y ago
  +1 for jokes in code. I have a thesaurus plugin with an ASCII T-Rex in the source.
  - kyle-rb 9y ago
    You'd probably appreciate the ascii pterodactyl in the source of http://theoatmeal.com http://theoatmeal.com
    - 9y ago
hluska 9y ago
That is an amazing website. I particularly enjoyed your blog, especially the sharing buttons! :)
earthbeing 9y ago
> If you'd like to contact me, and you are not spam, you can do so by combining 'dick' and 'ineptech.com' with an at sign between them. > Ineptech is a Very Large and Serious Technology Company Seriously though, I think ineptech would get up and running with a little effort.
roryisok 9y ago
> spline reticulation Classic. I miss simcopter
fazkan 9y ago
Shit I missed it. It says bandwidth exceeded. Can you bring the site back up.... Cursing myself for not checking hackernews more often...
victorhooi 9y ago
I really wanted to check out your website. However, I think you just exceeded your hoster's bandwidth quota...(error message when I try to access it).
- ineptech 9y ago
  Whoops! Did not expect just being in the comments of a post to /. it that bad. It's hosted with a friend on a not-so-modern platform so the bandwidth limit is not that high. Back up now, and I broke the path to the silly stock photos, should help keep it up.

shallot_router 9y ago

That's an awesome website. Some highlights: >Here is a small sampling of our Services offerings: >GUID duplication >Lamp stacking >Despondency injection >We're hiring! If you're a best-in-breed, 10x, full-stack rock star, we want to talk to you about joining our "posse". Here's what we're looking for: >Senior Java Developer - Develop 15-20 Senior Javas per day Maybe you should try to monetize fake companies instead. You're good at it.

ineptech 9y ago
Thank you! I had a ton of fun with that, so there are a lot of cute details to find. (For example, check out where the social media "share" buttons on the blog posts go)
- mustacheemperor 9y ago
  I'll second you've got a potential second career in comedy writing, my coworkers and I are currently nearly in tears reading this. Thanks for the Friday laughs.
  - ineptech 9y ago
    Thank you so much! I guess I should've posted it somewhere sooner...
    - shallot_router 9y ago
      That website would be a great portfolio example if you wanted to write for a show like Silicon Valley...
      - nickpsecurity 9y ago
        I'm with you on that. The author is doing some great parodies. They should look into how people monetize such humor since it's the strong point. Only if author can keep it going, though.

bkmartin 9y ago

That site is one of the funniest things I've read in a while. Thank you!

gh1 9y ago

Congratulations on making this awesome fake website. I had a shit ton of fun going through it. You'd be a rockstar copywriter, if you are not one already.

ineptech 9y ago
I'm a QA guy, which may come out in some of the jokes, e.g.: Ineptech CEO Dick Hallerson wishes to apologize for describing the Quality Assurance group as a "necessary evil." Mr. Hallerson did not mean to imply that QA is necessary.

spacetimecake 9y ago

The Scrum Master job description totally cracked me up - Champion agile methodologies, hunt down and eliminate remaining waterfall advocates

ineptech 9y ago

For those checking out the ineptech site, please don't miss the poetry compiler joke! It's the bit I'm the most proud of. It's in an unlinkable modal so actually I'll just paste it here: Upon a stack of bits, about so tall, // Boolean[] isprime = new Boolean[n]; just think, O traveller, what we could do // Arrays.fill(isprime, true); if every other bit was set to false // for (int i = 4; i < n; i+=2) beginning with (but not including) two? // isprime[i] = false; Now take two lowly numbers, A and B // for (int a = 3; a < n; a += 2) that equal three and two. What would happen // { if they, by twos and ones respectively, // for (int b = 2; a*b < n; b++) were incremented in a nested fashion, // { And if we falsified, at every turn, // isprime[a*b] = false; the value offset by A groups of Bs? // } Then to the aether let those bits return, // } to fly back home to Eratosthenes! // return isprime; (You may have figured out that I put a lot more time in to the silly programmer jokes in the fake site than in to the app. Wonder why it never took off...)

adzm 9y ago
Code poetry is drastically underappreciated. I truly enjoyed this.
pjc50 9y ago
This is very, very nicely done. You can rightly be proud of that.
roryisok 9y ago
+1 for jokes in code. I have a thesaurus plugin with an ASCII T-Rex in the source.
- kyle-rb 9y ago
  You'd probably appreciate the ascii pterodactyl in the source of http://theoatmeal.com http://theoatmeal.com
  - 9y ago

hluska 9y ago

That is an amazing website. I particularly enjoyed your blog, especially the sharing buttons! :)

earthbeing 9y ago

> If you'd like to contact me, and you are not spam, you can do so by combining 'dick' and 'ineptech.com' with an at sign between them. > Ineptech is a Very Large and Serious Technology Company Seriously though, I think ineptech would get up and running with a little effort.

roryisok 9y ago

> spline reticulation Classic. I miss simcopter

fazkan 9y ago

Shit I missed it. It says bandwidth exceeded. Can you bring the site back up.... Cursing myself for not checking hackernews more often...

victorhooi 9y ago

I really wanted to check out your website. However, I think you just exceeded your hoster's bandwidth quota...(error message when I try to access it).

ineptech 9y ago
Whoops! Did not expect just being in the comments of a post to /. it that bad. It's hosted with a friend on a not-so-modern platform so the bandwidth limit is not that high. Back up now, and I broke the path to the silly stock photos, should help keep it up.