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This is really overthinking it, IMO. This app isn't a shot at Yelp or an attempt to disrupt the pizza space... It's a joke. You pay a dollar, you get a pizza co
by princess3000 13y ago
This is really overthinking it, IMO. This app isn't a shot at Yelp or an attempt to disrupt the pizza space... It's a joke. You pay a dollar, you get a pizza compass. I think it's hilarious.
The quotes on their page about "life-affirming" and "some people might say this is the most important app... ever" tell me that whoever made this app just wanted to have a bit of a laugh.
- pkulak 13y agoHaha, it's so funny! Oh, and look at all this money in iTunes Connect... Yes, totally just a joke!
- coopdog 13y agoThe app is real, but they're poking fun at how simple it is. I can imagine their users are either often either extremely hungry and/or drunk, so extreme simplicity is a big plus.
- princess3000 13y agoWho said you can't make money from a joke?
- rhizome 13y agoNobody.
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- saraid216 13y agoI'm pretty sure the entire industry of stand-up comedians are laughing with you.
- pizza 13y agoSatire can make money, e.g. the Onion
- danso 13y agoWow. It just goes to show how immune I've gotten to startup pitch ideas and their templates. The text that I copied and pasted is obviously a joke ("EXCITING NEW LIFE-AFFIRMING IPHONE APP") and yet my brain mentally skipped over it as just being thats-what-all-apps-said and tried to evaluate the technical part of an app. I'm going to blame it on the all-caps throwing blinders on my brain this morning
- TazeTSchnitzel 13y agoYou're assuming the app is a joke. I see no indication the app isn't real.
- coldtea 13y agoNo, he is assuming the app is a joke app. Not that the app is a joke (not real), but that the app is a joke app (a fun app, made cheaply, not intended to "change the world", be the next Facebook, or promote a heavy business model).
- TazeTSchnitzel 13y agoThat doesn't make it a joke app. By those standards almost all hobby apps are.
- coldtea 13y agoDense in purpose? It is also given that the app in question is also a PIZZA COMPASS app, on top of all the other qualities.
- princess3000 13y agoWhen I say "joke" I just mean that the whole concept appears to be firmly tongue-in-cheek (or pizza-in-cheek, maybe). Though I haven't used the app I suspect that the tech behind it is pretty sound. I feel you on the hyperbolic marketing though, when every new app is a "revolutionary take on _____" those words begin to lose meaning. I have no connection to the app's creators or any actual knowledge about their intentions but I would assume that this is meant to be a jab at that kind of marketing.
- knassy 13y agoAgreed. They're having some fun. That said, I did stare at the pizza compass the whole way home on the bus tonight.