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uh ... their "Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn" links at the bottom of the page literally just go to facebook.com and the like, rather than a page for their company.

Also, their signup form gives a straight MySQL "Access denied for user 'rollio'@'localhost' (using password: YES)". I've seen completely fake startups with more functional websites than this (like http://www.shutdownify.com/ )

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My guess (since they mention using agencies, but never an in-house designer):

They bought this either as a template or as a contract gig, it was delivered with the expectation that they swap the demo social links out for the real ones, and the people on the receiving end just never looked that hard at it.

Too funny! I had to check it out for myself... Thanks for the laugh.

"Sorry. Error occurred. We are already working on it - SQLSTATE[28000] [1045] Access denied for user 'rollio'@'localhost' (using password: YES)"

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