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Note that this is itself a fake site. It's put up by https://sanctus.io/ https://sanctus.io/ and clicking on any Buy button will redirect you to this Medium pos
by timdorr 8y ago
Note that this is itself a fake site. It's put up by https://sanctus.io/ https://sanctus.io/ and clicking on any Buy button will redirect you to this Medium post: https://sanctus.io/social-media-mental-health-b1803b6b475f https://sanctus.io/social-media-mental-health-b1803b6b475f
- SlowRobotAhead 8y agoThe best satire is the one where you can’t immediately tell. This nailed that.
- morganvachon 8y agoEven the logo is spot on. This is dark satire indeed, predicting the near future where someone out there actually will offer such a service, and millions will buy into it. This would be a perfect fit in the world of Black Mirror.
- derefr 8y agoAs both a speculative fiction author and an entrepreneur, new ideas sometimes have me on the fence for whether I should make them into businesses, or into dystopian novellas.
- kbenson 8y agoAnywhere we can read your work?
- TheOtherHobbes 8y agoProbably YC Round 2019.
- camillomiller 8y agoHappens rarely, but I laughed out loud at a HN comment :)
- dfox 8y agoMade my day
- escape_goat 8y agoAlso the title.
- itronitron 8y agothis would be hard to scale as you would probably need to generate new images for each client, but if you could auto-generate imagery per client that would help (still the subscription needs to be priced higher)
- ponderatul 8y agoOne issue at a time
- Double_a_92 8y agoThe "influencer" would just have to take a lot of pictures for each event. Maybe the same from different angles... Could easily generate hundreds of photos from one "session".
- tedmiston 8y agoFWIW services kinda like this already exist — there are marketplaces for "social influencers" to buy content.
- naiv 8y agoWould be great to have a link in this thread for comparison?
- otakucode 8y agoOr China if they could improve your 'social credit' rating. I am a little disappointed though. From the title I thought the service would be for faking profiles in order to trick the data vacuuming companies. Filling their databases with fake useless garbage has been my desire for awhile.
- feedmeseymour 8y agoThe movie Idiocracy is an example.
- rosstex 8y agoIt even looks like the 'e' is winking. I really like this logo.
- jd_routledge 8y agoThanks - we're very happy with the reaction and all this amazing discussion - it's exactly what we wanted!
- hunter2_ 8y agoThe bottom of the FAQ did me in, but that's a perfect place: the people who are about to bounce anyway.
- cabalamat 8y agoI cottoned on that it was (probably) fake, but I can imagine someone doing this for real.
- heedlessly3 8y agodid anyone actually think this wasn't fake?
- onion2k 8y agoI shared an office with the founder of Sanctus for a while (James) when he was working on a different startup. Sanctus is a brilliant idea that's doing good work. If it scales well it could make a real difference in a lot of people's lives. Nice guy too.
- iovrthoughtthis 8y agoCampus north?
- onion2k 8y agoIgnite Loft.
- jd_routledge 8y agoCheers Chris :)
- almiron10 8y ago"MetaMask believes this domain to have malicious intent and has prevented you from interacting with it. This is because the site tested positive on the Ethereum Phishing Detector."
- matheus2740 8y agoSame here.... Curious
- heynk 8y agoHm, I get this too because I have MetaMask. It uses this library: https://github.com/MetaMask/eth-phishing-detect https://github.com/MetaMask/eth-phishing-detect Running the detector on 'sanctus.io' gives a fuzzy match against the whitelisted domain 'auctus.org'. That's pretty odd, and clearly is a false positive. I guess it's better safe than sorry, but there should be an error message on that page that says something like "We think this site is pretending to be auctus.org, if you think this is a false positive than click here to continue".
- downandout 8y agoAwesome idea for a satire site, and this appears to be well intended. However it did bring an interesting thought to mind: somebody could easily create a site like this for the express purpose of building retargeting audiences in a given niche. Post something likely to go viral in tech circles, for example, then throw retargeting pixels from FB, Google, etc on there. Notice that the URL posted to HN had a tracking parameter attached to it (“?HackerNews”). I didn’t bother to look at the code on the site, but I noticed that Adblock Plus blocked 4 elements on the page, so maybe they’re already doing this. Even just with the YouTube-based promo video embedded on the page, you can retarget people that watched the video.
- homero 8y agoWhich target though?
- vertis 8y agoI clicked through to the HN comments, going 'I bet someone will want to make this a business'. Sure enough :D I think we might all be predictable.
- amorroxic 8y agoSo look. 3 hours after you wrote this (now, that is) you probably forgot your comment (whether a random HN project becomes a business or not). Here's my take for an answer - it doesn't matter :) It probably touched base for everyone linking such mirrors with mental health points - fair play, I know I'll think about this tomorrow regardless of its far-fetched potential biz-prop. Cheers!
- goodJobWalrus 8y agoGetting that domain probably wasn't dirt cheap either. Kudos for the commitment.
- philwelch 8y agoJust wait, it's a fake door test and sanctus.io is actually going to pivot to this due to the overwhelming demand /s
- jd_routledge 8y agoPivot in progress, raising a $10m seed.
- evrydayhustling 8y agoAmazing! But this is already realer than the satire suggests. Amazing article on rental friends in Japan: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2017/11/paying-for-fake-friends-and-family/545060/ https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2017/11/paying-fo... And the curiously gender-specific invisible girlfriend: https://invisiblegirlfriend.com/ https://invisiblegirlfriend.com/
- veb 8y agoThat article on rental friends makes me so mad. I'd rather know that my dad wasn't around than be completely lied to like that. Jeez.
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoThere's apparently an Invisible Boyfriend site, too. It's linked at the bottom. I have to suspect it gets less traffic, though.
- timdorr 8y ago> And the curiously gender-specific invisible girlfriend: https://invisiblegirlfriend.com/ https://invisiblegirlfriend.com/ There is a male equivalent: https://invisibleboyfriend.com https://invisibleboyfriend.com
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- chx 8y agoblink what the hell did I just read? He is pretending to be a father for eight years? And this is ongoing? o_O
- freeflight 8y agoOnce again, Japan delivers on soul-crushing social dynamics. Sometimes I fear that Japan is merely a reflection of what lies ahead for a whole lot of humanity once the global population/ urbanization density becomes high enough.
- IshKebab 8y agoI worry for anyone that didn't immediately realise this is satire.
- heedlessly3 8y agodid anyone actually believe it wasn't a fake site?
- Hoasi 8y agoI wonder how many people would take this at face value though.