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Even 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 b
by morganvachon 8y ago
Even 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.