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I'm a bit confused. I feel like this is an extremely old joke at this point. Aren't we all pretty keenly aware of the memes and absurdities that crowd the start

I'm a bit confused. I feel like this is an extremely old joke at this point. Aren't we all pretty keenly aware of the memes and absurdities that crowd the startup industry? Am I missing some unique or new observation being made that hasn't been made 50 times already by pretty much everyone?

sharkweek 14y ago
Taking it even a step further -- I'm jaded enough to believe they're actually going to piggyback off the promotion of this joke with a real product
- drharris 14y ago
  I don't know if that's jaded... it's pretty realistic.
- jbigelow76 14y ago
  Truth can be stranger than fiction, what you described already happened. Back when everybody was going gaga for Kevin Rose's "Milk" startup a parody mobile app beta that pre-oink'd Oink called Jotly put out a video kind of like the Vooza one. The developer of the parody vid actually went on to release the app. http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/18/jotly-parodies-our-mobile-local-social-app-obsession/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/18/jotly-parodies-our-mobile-l... http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/13/jotly-lives-parody-app-goes-live-in-itunes/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/13/jotly-lives-parody-app-goes...
- vooza 14y ago
  You may be right. I may be crazy. And it just may be a lunatic you're looking for. Or a werewolf. Hmm.
dmix 14y ago
The first video satirizing the Apple-style "design process" promotional videos was great. The second video making fun of buzz words (cloud, social, local), acronyms (RSS, API) and startups being oblivious to making money is a really tired and overdone joke.
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- dclowd9901 14y ago
  Yeah, I missed the "Apple" video the first time around. Much funnier than the second vid.
- sp332 14y ago
  Always the same joke, only the buzzwords change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmo1ef7tVso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmo1ef7tVso (I think they're still funny).
- vooza 14y ago
  We are the kings of tired and overdone jokes yearning to be free!
rauljara 14y ago
> Aren't we all pretty keenly aware of the memes and absurdities that crowd the startup industry? Or, another way of putting it, 'Hasn't everyone on Hacker news been exposed to the same articles/knowledge/humor I have been exposed to?' If something seems old and tired to you, yet is still getting upvotes, the answer is probably 'no'.
pxlpshr 14y ago
It's not about the joke, it's about the execution. I laughed, a lot. Win!
- vooza 14y ago
  Hey, that's the spirit. Thanks pxlphsr! More on the way soon.
irollboozers 14y ago
If the hacker community ever loses the ability to laugh at itself, I would be worried. Taking yourself too seriously is not good for one's health.
vooza 14y ago
What is old news to you may be new news to others. Or as Bob Dylan sang, I was so much more 2.0 than, I'm more beta now. Or was that The Beatles? Hmm.

sharkweek 14y ago

Taking it even a step further -- I'm jaded enough to believe they're actually going to piggyback off the promotion of this joke with a real product

drharris 14y ago
I don't know if that's jaded... it's pretty realistic.
jbigelow76 14y ago
Truth can be stranger than fiction, what you described already happened. Back when everybody was going gaga for Kevin Rose's "Milk" startup a parody mobile app beta that pre-oink'd Oink called Jotly put out a video kind of like the Vooza one. The developer of the parody vid actually went on to release the app. http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/18/jotly-parodies-our-mobile-local-social-app-obsession/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/18/jotly-parodies-our-mobile-l... http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/13/jotly-lives-parody-app-goes-live-in-itunes/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/13/jotly-lives-parody-app-goes...
vooza 14y ago
You may be right. I may be crazy. And it just may be a lunatic you're looking for. Or a werewolf. Hmm.

dmix 14y ago

The first video satirizing the Apple-style "design process" promotional videos was great. The second video making fun of buzz words (cloud, social, local), acronyms (RSS, API) and startups being oblivious to making money is a really tired and overdone joke.

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dclowd9901 14y ago
Yeah, I missed the "Apple" video the first time around. Much funnier than the second vid.
sp332 14y ago
Always the same joke, only the buzzwords change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmo1ef7tVso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmo1ef7tVso (I think they're still funny).
vooza 14y ago
We are the kings of tired and overdone jokes yearning to be free!

rauljara 14y ago

> Aren't we all pretty keenly aware of the memes and absurdities that crowd the startup industry? Or, another way of putting it, 'Hasn't everyone on Hacker news been exposed to the same articles/knowledge/humor I have been exposed to?' If something seems old and tired to you, yet is still getting upvotes, the answer is probably 'no'.

pxlpshr 14y ago

It's not about the joke, it's about the execution. I laughed, a lot. Win!

vooza 14y ago
Hey, that's the spirit. Thanks pxlphsr! More on the way soon.

irollboozers 14y ago

If the hacker community ever loses the ability to laugh at itself, I would be worried. Taking yourself too seriously is not good for one's health.

vooza 14y ago

What is old news to you may be new news to others. Or as Bob Dylan sang, I was so much more 2.0 than, I'm more beta now. Or was that The Beatles? Hmm.