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Show HN: SeriesF – The Onion for Startup News

63 points by mkremer90 11y ago

DenisM 11y ago
I'd sign up on Facebook, if that option was there. I don't know if you can make a living from this, but I like this idea a lot as a consumer.
- mkremer90 11y ago
  Just set up a Twitter (@SeriesF_News) I'll look into a Facebook next :) Thanks!
bayonetz 11y ago
Nice. You will never run out of material. That's for sure! A few off the top of my head: Uber for Facebook: on demand outsourced upkeep on your boring but essential social media presences Snapchat in talks with Twitter: merger could set new valuation record of over 17 trillion dollars!
burger_moon 11y ago
Ironical satire news site raises $100 million to disrupt the satire industry.
- mkremer90 11y ago
  Hah, that's not a bad article idea ;)
makeitsuckless 11y ago
Just take a look at the front page of HN right now. Reality in the tech bubble is pretty much beyond satire. Nobody would know the difference.
specialk 11y ago
Even calling yourselves the Onion for Startup News is hilarious. The whole 'we're like uber but for ... ' has become meaningless. The pieces on your tumblr so far have been pretty funny. This industry needs more social commentary along the lines of Silicon Valley on HBO and sites like this. Silicon Valley nails our industry almost every week. It's brutal, but it's reasonably accurate satire.
- afarrell 11y ago
  I don't think it's yet meaningless. Saying "appear.in is like etherpad for videochat" still has meaning even if making similes for startups is now cliche.
  - masteryupa_ 11y ago
    From the appear.in website: What People Say: "It's so easy it almost hurts" - Kate Russell, BBC Click
mynegation 11y ago
This is hilarious. Reminds me of Bored Elon Musk: it is so funny exactly because it is so close to believable reality. I, for one, could certainly see the viability of the idea of giving startups office space for equity, Airbnb or not.
cpeterso 11y ago
See also https://twitter.com/HackerNewsOnion https://twitter.com/HackerNewsOnion and https://twitter.com/TechCrunchOnion https://twitter.com/TechCrunchOnion.
naturetm 11y ago
http://seriesf.com/post/116747678376/peter-thiel-has-change-of-heart-pays-founders-1m http://seriesf.com/post/116747678376/peter-thiel-has-change-... was pretty good!
- mkremer90 11y ago
  Thanks! That one was my favorite too :)
alexmobile 11y ago
Not bad, not bad... And I like the domain name too. Also, reminds me of my own idea years back when domain name POOMA NEWS.com was available... POOMA of course meant "Pulled Out Of", and I could not help with some double-"O" animated logo ideas either... Realized that constantly being funny is such a strain on your creativity, decided to use that towards solving serious problems :)
irascible 11y ago
This violates the HN policy against sarcasm/satire. Please report your link and burn your computer.

63 points by mkremer90 11y ago

I'd sign up on Facebook, if that option was there. I don't know if you can make a living from this, but I like this idea a lot as a consumer.

mkremer90 11y ago
Just set up a Twitter (@SeriesF_News) I'll look into a Facebook next :) Thanks!

bayonetz 11y ago

Nice. You will never run out of material. That's for sure! A few off the top of my head: Uber for Facebook: on demand outsourced upkeep on your boring but essential social media presences Snapchat in talks with Twitter: merger could set new valuation record of over 17 trillion dollars!

burger_moon 11y ago

Ironical satire news site raises $100 million to disrupt the satire industry.

mkremer90 11y ago
Hah, that's not a bad article idea ;)

makeitsuckless 11y ago

Just take a look at the front page of HN right now. Reality in the tech bubble is pretty much beyond satire. Nobody would know the difference.

specialk 11y ago

Even calling yourselves the Onion for Startup News is hilarious. The whole 'we're like uber but for ... ' has become meaningless. The pieces on your tumblr so far have been pretty funny. This industry needs more social commentary along the lines of Silicon Valley on HBO and sites like this. Silicon Valley nails our industry almost every week. It's brutal, but it's reasonably accurate satire.

afarrell 11y ago
I don't think it's yet meaningless. Saying "appear.in is like etherpad for videochat" still has meaning even if making similes for startups is now cliche.
- masteryupa_ 11y ago
  From the appear.in website: What People Say: "It's so easy it almost hurts" - Kate Russell, BBC Click

mynegation 11y ago

This is hilarious. Reminds me of Bored Elon Musk: it is so funny exactly because it is so close to believable reality. I, for one, could certainly see the viability of the idea of giving startups office space for equity, Airbnb or not.

cpeterso 11y ago

See also https://twitter.com/HackerNewsOnion https://twitter.com/HackerNewsOnion and https://twitter.com/TechCrunchOnion https://twitter.com/TechCrunchOnion.

naturetm 11y ago

http://seriesf.com/post/116747678376/peter-thiel-has-change-of-heart-pays-founders-1m http://seriesf.com/post/116747678376/peter-thiel-has-change-... was pretty good!

mkremer90 11y ago
Thanks! That one was my favorite too :)

alexmobile 11y ago

Not bad, not bad... And I like the domain name too. Also, reminds me of my own idea years back when domain name POOMA NEWS.com was available... POOMA of course meant "Pulled Out Of", and I could not help with some double-"O" animated logo ideas either... Realized that constantly being funny is such a strain on your creativity, decided to use that towards solving serious problems :)

irascible 11y ago

This violates the HN policy against sarcasm/satire. Please report your link and burn your computer.