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This Startup Does Not Exist
- ChrisRR 8y agoI don't get it. Is it a parody? A copy of an existing website? An attempt to see how many people will sign up without reading the URL or page? An actual startup with an "ironic" URL?
- geofft 8y agoI thibk it's a reference to https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ (AI-generated faces bases on real faces).
- tyingq 8y agoSince that's down, my favorite related parody is https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com
- thegranderson 8y agoAppears to be a series of generic, generated fake startups, like the AI-generated faces at https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ [appears to be down]
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoThe majority of the results seem like believable bullshit startups. Every now and then it makes a pretty good parody. "Myescent is like Google Plus but for Gaming" "Coner, Startup as a service" "Contracee, Rent a Phone as a service" "Ultrambu, Using the blockchain to create AI-Chatbots" "Malicious, Interactive learning" "Octozu, Using the blockchain in Dating"
- buzzier 8y agohttps://thispersondoesnotexist.com https://thispersondoesnotexist.com https://thisrentaldoesnotexist.com https://thisrentaldoesnotexist.com https://thisvaginadoesnotexist.com https://thisvaginadoesnotexist.com
- ltc5505 8y agoYou should have a NSFW warning on the last one for people mindlessly clicking the links like I did.
- reviseddamage 8y agosome of them are NSFL 0_0
- edmack 8y agoWhere do you find all these?
- arendtio 8y agohttps://thiscatdoesnotexist.com https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com
- jrrv 8y agoRefresh the page
- projectramo 8y agoWhat's not to get? It's telephone calling on demand which is going to be the next youtube! I have already signed up for $89/month and sent them my resume! What a great idea. They already have three CEOs so I don't think 1 more can hurt, frankly.
- phoe-krk 8y agoThis is shockingly real. https://i.imgtc.com/DawgjdH.png https://i.imgtc.com/DawgjdH.png
- ainar-g 8y agoSo, Abavu is basically Amazon?
- misterdoubt 8y agoThe writer had Shipt in mind, I think. I've seen that twice now s/stuff/groceries/
- smsm42 8y agoYou can probably name a dozen that fits without too much effort. All taskrabbit/fiverr clones, all food/grocery delivery clones, etc.
- levesque 8y agoPretty sure they are not using a GAN, but it is still a lot of fun. https://imgur.com/a/t3qeKtr https://imgur.com/a/t3qeKtr
- mcv 8y agoWhat's next? thisworlddoesnotexist.com? Generate an entire random world with people and everything in it from some ML experiement?
- _asummers 8y agoThat IS the end game of VR, in some capacity.
- saint_fiasco 8y agoThat's just Dwarf Fortress.
- martin-adams 8y agoMaybe someone is looking right at us now and is about to press the refresh button.
- mlthoughts2018 8y agoHopefully they’ll get sued by Choose Your Own Adventure just in time for an injunction to prevent them from pressing refresh.
- est31 8y agoWhat if we already lived in such a world? Generated for no particular reason just for "hey look I can generate worlds randomly". I guess you should enjoy your life until the tab is being closed!
- paultopia 8y agoROFL. This is hilarious.
- kbumsik 8y agoFYI: Press the refresh button. It generates a different fake compay every time you refresh it. Looks like it is kinda an AI research but I cannot get any detail behind it.
- mlevental 8y agowww.thispersondoesnotexist.com
- luxuryballs 8y ago“It’s like Uber, but for healthcare” hahaha man do you want to tip your surgeon extra today?
- del82 8y agoNot tipping the doctor, but the hospital: "Many hospitals conduct nightly wealth screenings — using software that culls public data such as property records, contributions to political campaigns and other charities — to gauge which patients are most likely to be the source of large donations. "Those who seem promising targets for fund-raising may receive a visit from a hospital executive in their rooms, as well as extra amenities like a bathrobe or a nicer waiting area for their families." https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/24/business/hospitals-asking-patients-donate-money.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/24/business/hospitals-asking...
- gowld 8y agoOn the one hand, overpriced premium services is great way to finance core services. On the other hand, it gives influential people a distorted view of how most people experience the world. ("Doesn't even know the price of a gallon of milk.") Also, I thought HIPAA would prevent that behavior.
- nradov 8y agoNothing in HIPAA would prevent that behavior. It does prevent hospital management from unauthorized access to your medical records for purposes unrelated to care delivery or billing. However it doesn't mention anything about access to public financial records.
- dooglius 8y agoAnyone else get the sense this is more of a Mad-Libs style fill-in as opposed to the sort of AI-generated content found in other thisXdoesnotexist sites?
- tenaciousDaniel 8y agoYeah. Oddly enough, this should be the easiest variation on the this-does-not-exist idea, but it's the least believable. If I didn't know it was an experiment, I'd think it was a bot-driven ad-fraud popup site or something.
- nkozyra 8y agoClearly. The images are all just stock "...male-105.png," the page format is exactly the same. It's cute but less interesting than, say, thisdoesnotexist.
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- gwern 8y agoAs author of 'This Waifu Does Not Exist' https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/ https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/ (which does use StyleGAN+GPT-2-small, with even better anime-finetuned GPT-2-small samples coming tomorrow or so), I feel a little insulted that the 'X Does Not Exist' brand is being diluted by Mad-Libs-style efforts. The snowclone exists to show off neural net work specifically, not just any old aleatorics.
- gowld 8y agoFake tricks, in my AI/ML offering? It's more likely then you think.
- apollopower 8y agoThats understandable. Where "This Waifu Does Not Exist" serves as a demonstration of GANs, "This Startup Does Not Exist" is more of a satirical jab on how "disruptive" startup endeavors are really generic efforts that don't amount to anything
- projectramo 8y agoFor those who were as confused as I was: Every time you refresh the page, it comes up with a new startup, with new people and titles etc.
- notjustanymike 8y agoMy first suspicion was seeing a company based out of Islamabad.
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoBusiness happens anywhere and everywhere. "No matter your transportation needs we can meet them with some combination of mopeds and small cars" sounds believable for a startup from any of the midsize cities in the region.
- giancarlostoro 8y agoIt's the capital of Pakistan why wouldn't it have startups? I'm not familiar enough with Pakistan to understand.
- amelius 8y agoAre the founder images also deep-fakes, or are they of real people?
- zubi 8y agoMost likely no. I came across the same person twice. Interestingly, in one company her name is "Tera" and in the other "Terah".
- Svip 8y agoIts address generation is a bit wonky. It doesn't respect address formats of different countries. It assumes all addresses follow this format: "<Street name> street no. <number>, <5 digit postal number>, <City>". An actual working random address generation would be kind of cool. But this really isn't. Plus, as far as I know, postal numbers are available from OpenStreetMaps' database or Google Maps.
- codevark 8y agoIt does now. :)
- zepolen 8y agoI laughed at this one: "Get your groceries supplied by badly paid people because you're too lazy."
- sundvor 8y agoArt meets life.
- tombot 8y ago"Infratz is more than just a random Idea"
- enriquto 8y agoThe manually generated code seemed to produce funnier outputs http://tiffzhang.com/startup/ http://tiffzhang.com/startup/
- eih 8y agoThis could be used to create mockups for Envato/Theme Forest templates.
- zubi 8y ago"Amicious is like Facebook but for Communication" Perhaps not a brilliant startup idea.
- vvilliam0 8y agohttp://www.piedpiper.com/ http://www.piedpiper.com/
- turc1656 8y agoanything Nelson “Big Head” Bighetti is involved in is a guaranteed winner.
- verytrivial 8y ago"Sumile is like Google Plus but for Faith", actual lol!
- lmilcin 8y agoThis is boring, you drop a bunch of resources and templates and then use random() to choose templates and resources to fill them in. How about going more meta with thisthisdoesnotexistdoesnotexist.com?
- cubano 8y agoRight...at this point, skewering sites that build auto-generated sites would have been way more fun and interesting.
- dillutedfixer 8y agoHAHAHAH!! This is frickin hilarious! Thanks to whomever created this for sharing.
- abarringer 8y agoI'd like to see an AI driven predictor of which Google service/api will not exist in five years so we can go ahead and not use it now.
- rimliu 8y agoThe second result I got was Audible. Not sure Amazon would allow startup with this name…
- nwellnhof 8y agoWe need a .doesnotexist TLD.
- SergeAx 8y agoQuape "Get your groceries supplied by badly paid people because you're too lazy" If it were an ML-model, it would be AlphaZero of sarcasm.
- yesenadam 8y agoWell no, this exact sentence is mentioned twice on this page, I just got it too.
- segfaultbuserr 8y ago> "Locer: is using the blockchain to create AI-Chatbots" This one is hilarious... Is it like, you need to wait for the block time (20 minutes) to get one reply from the bot?
- elymar 8y agohttps://cointelegraph.com/news/blockchain-based-platform-unveils-ai-chatbot-to-help-students-pass-crucial-exams https://cointelegraph.com/news/blockchain-based-platform-unv...
- graindcafe 8y agoLove this one: Disous - Aggregate the long tail and drive discovery "Disous is the new Google Plus" Blockchain & AI, Funding and Fresh are just a few characteristic of Disous. But we offer a lot more! Find us at the office Rinkle- Gailey street no. 97, 61663 Vatican City, Vatican City
- elymar 8y agoThis "Does Not Exist" website does not exist.
- jjakque 8y agoAnother synthetic content generator to add to https://github.com/paubric/awesome-doesnotexist https://github.com/paubric/awesome-doesnotexist
- Sommer 8y agoJoke's on you, that's just a result from thisrepodoesnotexist.
- ben_w 8y agoAmusing, but it feels like a template where some variables are filled by random selection from an array. Closer to SimCity 2000 newspapers than to thispersondoesnotexist.com
- iliketosleep 8y agoI've often felt that most startup landing pages are just a variation upon a theme, and this site proves it to be true, literally. They have managed to distill it down to the basic elements of unoriginality that constitute the local maxima of startup landing pages today. Personally, whenever I see one of these kinds landing pages it serves as a huge red flag.
- supergilbert 8y agoPlease do the next one: this VC does not exist.
- skocznymroczny 8y ago"Boner is like Google but for Photos" well...
- castratikron 8y ago"Unend: Get your groceries supplied by badly paid people because you're too lazy."
- tetrep 8y agoReminds me of the startup generator: http://tiffzhang.com/startup http://tiffzhang.com/startup HN discussion (2015): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9427856 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9427856
- lulzx 8y agoThis one is hilarious: https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net
- narven 8y agoCan anybody explain to me what is the purpose of this kind of bullshit website?
- gowld 8y agoSatire. Webdev practice. Fun.
- Scarblac 8y agoSomeone made http://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com http://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com , which is an interesting site that shows how good AI is getting at generating realistic faces. It got quite some exposure. Then parodies started appearing, like http://www.thiscatdoesnotexist.com http://www.thiscatdoesnotexist.com and this one, and probably a lot of others that I didn't hear about.
- avi_is_a_foodie 8y agoJust loaded this up, my first startup: Boner, Applying Blockchain :D
- janlaureys 8y ago"Spotify but for restaurants" actually sounds great though.
- cmauniada 8y agoAlso reminds me of the ICO websites that were rampant at the peak of the bitcoin bubble.
- apollopower 8y agoThe generated pages definitely are very structured, with each page belonging to a certain area/subject (ie. "Blockchain for Kids" is then presented as "Not just a Blockchain"). A lot seems to be cut-and-paste together, and not a purist implementation of GANs. With that being said, it still is very impressive that these generic page designs can feel like real world examples of what you might see in a pre-seed startup site. The satire hits right on the mark.
- faceru 8y agoThis neuron is divine. May I ask, Neuronka generates both text and icons and images or only text? And if she generates icons too, then where does she look for them, or where does she get them from, I can't believe that she draws the icons herself?