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Vooza
- slavak 14y agoObligatory XKCD link: http://xkcd.com/1060/ http://xkcd.com/1060/
- amykhar 14y agoI absolutely love this.
- nateberkopec 14y agoJust in case: this is satire. Hilarious satire.
- sliverstorm 14y agoOf course, like all satire, it wouldn't be so hilarious if it didn't strike uncomfortably close to home.
- paulgb 14y agoReminds me of Zombocom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombo.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombo.com / http://www.zombo.com http://www.zombo.com)
- yelloblac 14y agoamazing
- laconian 14y agoI think Vooza's looking for their first technical hire, too! I wonder if he'll be a rockstar ninja.
- kposehn 14y agoBest sarcastic comment from one of my co-founders: "Crap! They stole our idea"
- steve918 14y agoThey forgot to talk about how their whole goal is to sell to Google for a billion dollars in 6 months.
- jonzjia 14y ago"Vooza needs money. That way we can go...international." Brilliant.
- achompas 14y agoSigned up. It looks like these guys really understand today's tech ecosystem. /serious
- delinquentme 14y agoI like the part where they use humor, because I would have just been as asshole about it.
- laconian 14y agoIt is kind of sad how this Mad Libs exercise accurately describes so many of the startups that dominate the headlines and monopolize our talent.
- benihana 14y agoBeta user of Vooza here. Just gotta say, I love how the cloud based crowd sourced API social graph seamlessly allows me to wiki the S3 storage for microblogging and geolocation services by using distributed computing. It's pretty amazing!
- vladiim 14y agoZOMG! Have you played with QQQQ ..k ...5 yet??
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- JonnieCache 14y agoWoefully inaccurate: it has vowels in the name. In fact, mostly vowels in the name. Also, collegehumor did this better a year ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMmdl4VltD4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMmdl4VltD4 For that matter, so did Color.
- sp332 14y agoOr this more tech-oriented one from 2006: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmo1ef7tVso http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmo1ef7tVso
- kposehn 14y ago"For that matter, so did Color." That is an epic burn.
- sliverstorm 14y ago"epic" was played out the day it started getting used in radio ads.
- rokhayakebe 14y agoFWIW I believe the original promess of color, creating on-the-fly location based social networks, was a game-changing concept. It's bad they did not stick with it despite a failed launch.
- iM8t 14y agoWill it run on my iPhone?
- vooza 14y agoIt is cross-platform and totally compliant and there's an API and badges.
- oacgnol 14y agoDoomed to fail; they never mentioned scalability. How do they expect to grow to millions of users without web scale technologies?
- egallardo 14y agoOr disruption. Which 5 industries is Vooza going to disrupt?
- sliverstorm 14y agoAll of them.
- vooza 14y agoScaling is a TOP priority at Vooza. We are ready for 1 million customers.
- brado86 14y ago...And we've arrived at the zombo.com point of this round of startup fever.
- creativityland 14y agoFavorite part: Then we can go... International.
- smoyer 14y agoI enjoyed the satire in the video like most of the commentators below, but I have to admit I almost entered my e-mail address just to see what they'd send from a site that's obviously a spoof. (I didn't) I'm really hoping that they're collecting as much demographics about the visitors and those who do enter their e-mail as possible. Wouldn't that make an amazing social experiment?
- vooza 14y agoWe will reveal more soon! Don't be afraid to sign up.
- kposehn 14y agoMy apologies if anyone was offended by the original title - I should of course point out that it is satire :)
- leot 14y agoIt seems this has been disappeared from HN. Was it flagged too many times, or something?
- dguaraglia 14y agoAlthough I find it as funny as everyone else, I also think there's a cautionary tale in there, somewhere. A little over a year ago I did a few months of contracting for a company that was exactly like Vooza: buzzwords-galore, moving goalposts every month, no revenue model to speak of besides borrowing more money from investors... a complete and utter disaster. I don't know where those guys are nowadays, and I truly don't care, but to me as a developer those months were a massive waste of time and energy drain. So the lesson to learn is: before you agree to work for anyone, no matter how much money/equity they promise you "when VC money comes in" do your due diligence, a critical assessment of the company and ask the hard questions before committing to anything. You'll thank me later.