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Show HN: Shortcut Roulette – Dangerous, unhelpful shortcut for iOS 12

253 points by shrtctroulette 8y ago

outadoc 8y ago
Oh, no.
- shrtctroulette 8y ago
  I'm so sorry for this
tfeldmann 8y ago
Some preview of possible outcomes is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oxkvHCRrCh4LxY29KowNvN9t12z2De-JNyPcE5TZSFQ/edit https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oxkvHCRrCh4LxY29KowN...
- shrtctroulette 8y ago
  Pasting the stuff for 0.2.0 in now and allowing people to comment any bugs
  - estsauver 8y ago
    I can help test apple pay stuff, I have a US apple account and live in Ams.
    - shrtctroulette 8y ago
      hmu at shortcutroulette@gmail.com
  - tempodox 8y ago
    A “bug” being a non-embarrassing event?
- jessedhillon 8y ago
  > Makes your Siri say some shit in a SA accent SA = Saudi? Or South Africa?
  - shrtctroulette 8y ago
    South African. Stretch goal for this one was to pick a random accent and a random message from messages, ideally revealing something embarrassing, but couldn't find a way to do it. So now it languishes in mediocrity till I replace it.
- Raphmedia 8y ago
  > Tweet your most recent screenshot Oh wow. They didn't kid around when they said "7. Watch your life fall to pieces."
- hardlianotion 8y ago
  I love this one "Modelling agency addresses now bounce back"
elduderino1013 8y ago
That is so awesome!
RubenSandwich 8y ago
This is a great/dumb idea. Let's brainstorm some more life ruining actions: * Create an alarm to go off for every 5 mins for the rest of the day * Share what you last copied to clipboard on Social Media * Text a sexual suggestive gif to a random contact
- _dan 8y ago
  Send "heyyyy" to 20 random contacts.
  - shrtctroulette 8y ago
    Individually or group chat?
    - deleted 8y ago
      [deleted]
    - robben1234 8y ago
      Create a group chat with all contacts containing 'ex' in the name/comment. Send 'sup losers' to the chat, leave the chat.
      - ghostly_s 8y ago
        If only "leave the chat" were a real iPhone feature...
        Jtsummers 8y ago
        It is with iMessages. Not sure if you can leave one you've started, but I've left some that others have started (my email address was similar to their friend's).
- nemacol 8y ago
  Copy the browser history from a random day into an email and send to X random contact. Factory reset your phone (idk if it can do this, but I want this one) Update all the contact names in your phone with names of adult film stars.
hokumguru 8y ago
This is an absolutely horrible idea. ... I love it!
thedangler 8y ago
How does "send selfie to a contact" work when the user physically has to press send for imessages? As far as I'm aware you cannot get iOS to send SMS's or iMessages on behalf of the user.
- shrtctroulette 8y ago
  In this case, I've chosen to have all the messages show up with the user having to confirm with the send button. However, this isn't necessary for all information. I've built a shortcut that can take contact data, put it in a message, and send it to a predetermined number without a preview showing. here it is: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a62bc8f849ff4534a4a77812302cf2fc https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a62bc8f849ff4534a4a77812302... (it sends to a dummy number)
- speg 8y ago
  Shortcuts can send messages without any user interaction. However I think there is an exception if you are attaching an image; for privacy reasons.
_dan 8y ago
I have no words for how dumb/brilliant that is.
hprotagonist 8y ago
Like the rod of wonder, but worse. amazing. https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Rod_of_Wonder https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Rod_of_Wonder
- krsdcbl 8y ago
  This has a lot of potential - imagine a "Book of many things" following the concept of this app!
murph-almighty 8y ago
I want to meet this product team and look them in the eyes so I can see what an empty abyss looks like.
- theandrewbailey 8y ago
  ... so they can implement it!
escapologybb 8y ago
See, this is what's so brilliant about technology. We all know that social media is (okay, probably) going to be the death of society, and these bright sparks have worked out a way to "shortcut"[1] the process. No death throes of the Republic, we can just move straight to being social outcasts and speed up the atomisation of our society. Fk, I wish I was joking. [1]: See what I did there? :-)
androidgirl 8y ago
Bravo. I would play this, and likely lose very fast.
locklock 8y ago
reminds me of Social Roulette [1] which was also brilliant. this seems like a much more involved (and potentially life-ruining) version of that. cheers to making something interesting! [1] http://socialroulette.net/ http://socialroulette.net/
- shrtctroulette 8y ago
  This is amazing
brian_herman__ 8y ago
Can I make this into an app is that possible I’ll give it out for free?
mistersquid 8y ago
This is absolutely brilliant. In its current form, it seems more conceptual than practical, but I think an engaging and potentially fun-to-play ("fun"?) gaming product can come out of this. Classify shortcuts into tiers/difficulty levels 1. baby (little to no real consequence) 2. teenager (slight potential embarrassment) 3. reckless (mortifying but not career- or relationship damaging) 4. daredevil (would require apologies and other face-saving actions to recover) 5. drunken (even with face-saving would inflict career- or -relationship damage) 6. destroyer (guaranteed social consequence; possibly career- or -relationship ending) 7. just no (immoral and illegal in many jurisdictions) Let opponents create and join the game with real stakes (money, labor, product, reputation, etc.). Make sure your EULA is ironclad in case any users litigate after having woken up with a massive hangover and finding the entire world angry at them. UPDATE: The tiers should be additive, so level 4, for example, would include shortcuts from levels 1 through 3. EDIT: formatting; swap categories 4 and 5; punctuation; number agreement; grammar; add UPDATE
- gmemstr 8y ago
  Wasn't there a movie recently released along these lines?
- colonelpopcorn 8y ago
  And hook it up to a breathalyzer peripheral so that the level goes up the more you drink.
dmitripopov 8y ago
With proper execution and promotion it will be a pop culture highlight for decades.
- shrtctroulette 8y ago
  shame we won't ever give it either
deleted 8y ago
[deleted]
Waterluvian 8y ago
This reminds me of a drinking game my friends played in high school. System32 Roulette is a drinking game where you get a fresh install of Windows 98 on some crappy Pentium 2 in your friend's mom's basement. Each player takes a turn deleting a random file out of System32 (we disabled protections, I forget how), then reboots and tries to play a game of minesweeper. If you can, everyone else takes a drink. If you can't, you finish your drink and the game starts over with a clean install. I really ought to formalize it and make a container based version of the game. But it's far more fun to do on a real computer from the era.
- ReC757 8y ago
  That sounds like a wonderfully well-paced drinking game. Kids today would get wasted with an SSD :)
  - Waterluvian 8y ago
    It's true. It was uncanny just how balanced the game was. And there was a meta-layer where the drunker you get, the more awful it was to reinstall Windows 98. We had two computers going to cut down on install time. I think once we mapped a Thrustmaster snowboard to the mouse and had to use that to navigate. It was awful.
- shabble 8y ago
  see also: suicide linux [https://qntm.org/suicide https://qntm.org/suicide]
  - shrtctroulette 8y ago
    woah
- Swizec 8y ago
  This reminds me of that time I decided to clean up my computer and organized everything inside System32 into neat little folders. Then my computer stopped working and had to be taken in for service. Fun times.
chrisweekly 8y ago
This is hilarious. Thanks for sharing! :)

Oh, no.

shrtctroulette 8y ago
I'm so sorry for this

Some preview of possible outcomes is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oxkvHCRrCh4LxY29KowNvN9t12z2De-JNyPcE5TZSFQ/edit https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oxkvHCRrCh4LxY29KowN...

shrtctroulette 8y ago
Pasting the stuff for 0.2.0 in now and allowing people to comment any bugs
- estsauver 8y ago
  I can help test apple pay stuff, I have a US apple account and live in Ams.
  - shrtctroulette 8y ago
    hmu at shortcutroulette@gmail.com
- tempodox 8y ago
  A “bug” being a non-embarrassing event?
jessedhillon 8y ago
> Makes your Siri say some shit in a SA accent SA = Saudi? Or South Africa?
- shrtctroulette 8y ago
  South African. Stretch goal for this one was to pick a random accent and a random message from messages, ideally revealing something embarrassing, but couldn't find a way to do it. So now it languishes in mediocrity till I replace it.
Raphmedia 8y ago
> Tweet your most recent screenshot Oh wow. They didn't kid around when they said "7. Watch your life fall to pieces."
hardlianotion 8y ago
I love this one "Modelling agency addresses now bounce back"

elduderino1013 8y ago

That is so awesome!

RubenSandwich 8y ago

This is a great/dumb idea. Let's brainstorm some more life ruining actions: * Create an alarm to go off for every 5 mins for the rest of the day * Share what you last copied to clipboard on Social Media * Text a sexual suggestive gif to a random contact

_dan 8y ago
Send "heyyyy" to 20 random contacts.
- shrtctroulette 8y ago
  Individually or group chat?
  - deleted 8y ago
    [deleted]
  - robben1234 8y ago
    Create a group chat with all contacts containing 'ex' in the name/comment. Send 'sup losers' to the chat, leave the chat.
    - ghostly_s 8y ago
      If only "leave the chat" were a real iPhone feature...
      - Jtsummers 8y ago
        It is with iMessages. Not sure if you can leave one you've started, but I've left some that others have started (my email address was similar to their friend's).
nemacol 8y ago
Copy the browser history from a random day into an email and send to X random contact. Factory reset your phone (idk if it can do this, but I want this one) Update all the contact names in your phone with names of adult film stars.

hokumguru 8y ago

This is an absolutely horrible idea. ... I love it!

thedangler 8y ago

How does "send selfie to a contact" work when the user physically has to press send for imessages? As far as I'm aware you cannot get iOS to send SMS's or iMessages on behalf of the user.

shrtctroulette 8y ago
In this case, I've chosen to have all the messages show up with the user having to confirm with the send button. However, this isn't necessary for all information. I've built a shortcut that can take contact data, put it in a message, and send it to a predetermined number without a preview showing. here it is: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a62bc8f849ff4534a4a77812302cf2fc https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a62bc8f849ff4534a4a77812302... (it sends to a dummy number)
speg 8y ago
Shortcuts can send messages without any user interaction. However I think there is an exception if you are attaching an image; for privacy reasons.

_dan 8y ago

I have no words for how dumb/brilliant that is.

hprotagonist 8y ago

Like the rod of wonder, but worse. amazing. https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Rod_of_Wonder https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Rod_of_Wonder

krsdcbl 8y ago
This has a lot of potential - imagine a "Book of many things" following the concept of this app!

murph-almighty 8y ago

I want to meet this product team and look them in the eyes so I can see what an empty abyss looks like.

theandrewbailey 8y ago
... so they can implement it!

escapologybb 8y ago

See, this is what's so brilliant about technology. We all know that social media is (okay, probably) going to be the death of society, and these bright sparks have worked out a way to "shortcut"[1] the process. No death throes of the Republic, we can just move straight to being social outcasts and speed up the atomisation of our society. Fk, I wish I was joking. [1]: See what I did there? :-)

androidgirl 8y ago

Bravo. I would play this, and likely lose very fast.

locklock 8y ago

reminds me of Social Roulette [1] which was also brilliant. this seems like a much more involved (and potentially life-ruining) version of that. cheers to making something interesting! [1] http://socialroulette.net/ http://socialroulette.net/

shrtctroulette 8y ago
This is amazing

brian_herman__ 8y ago

Can I make this into an app is that possible I’ll give it out for free?

mistersquid 8y ago

This is absolutely brilliant. In its current form, it seems more conceptual than practical, but I think an engaging and potentially fun-to-play ("fun"?) gaming product can come out of this. Classify shortcuts into tiers/difficulty levels 1. baby (little to no real consequence) 2. teenager (slight potential embarrassment) 3. reckless (mortifying but not career- or relationship damaging) 4. daredevil (would require apologies and other face-saving actions to recover) 5. drunken (even with face-saving would inflict career- or -relationship damage) 6. destroyer (guaranteed social consequence; possibly career- or -relationship ending) 7. just no (immoral and illegal in many jurisdictions) Let opponents create and join the game with real stakes (money, labor, product, reputation, etc.). Make sure your EULA is ironclad in case any users litigate after having woken up with a massive hangover and finding the entire world angry at them. UPDATE: The tiers should be additive, so level 4, for example, would include shortcuts from levels 1 through 3. EDIT: formatting; swap categories 4 and 5; punctuation; number agreement; grammar; add UPDATE

gmemstr 8y ago
Wasn't there a movie recently released along these lines?
colonelpopcorn 8y ago
And hook it up to a breathalyzer peripheral so that the level goes up the more you drink.

dmitripopov 8y ago

With proper execution and promotion it will be a pop culture highlight for decades.

shrtctroulette 8y ago
shame we won't ever give it either

deleted 8y ago

[deleted]

Waterluvian 8y ago

This reminds me of a drinking game my friends played in high school. System32 Roulette is a drinking game where you get a fresh install of Windows 98 on some crappy Pentium 2 in your friend's mom's basement. Each player takes a turn deleting a random file out of System32 (we disabled protections, I forget how), then reboots and tries to play a game of minesweeper. If you can, everyone else takes a drink. If you can't, you finish your drink and the game starts over with a clean install. I really ought to formalize it and make a container based version of the game. But it's far more fun to do on a real computer from the era.

ReC757 8y ago
That sounds like a wonderfully well-paced drinking game. Kids today would get wasted with an SSD :)
- Waterluvian 8y ago
  It's true. It was uncanny just how balanced the game was. And there was a meta-layer where the drunker you get, the more awful it was to reinstall Windows 98. We had two computers going to cut down on install time. I think once we mapped a Thrustmaster snowboard to the mouse and had to use that to navigate. It was awful.
shabble 8y ago
see also: suicide linux [https://qntm.org/suicide https://qntm.org/suicide]
- shrtctroulette 8y ago
  woah
Swizec 8y ago
This reminds me of that time I decided to clean up my computer and organized everything inside System32 into neat little folders. Then my computer stopped working and had to be taken in for service. Fun times.

chrisweekly 8y ago

This is hilarious. Thanks for sharing! :)