Even the logo is spot on. This is dark satire indeed, predicting the near future where someone out there actually will offer such a service, and millions will buy into it. This would be a perfect fit in the world of Black Mirror.
As both a speculative fiction author and an entrepreneur, new ideas sometimes have me on the fence for whether I should make them into businesses, or into dystopian novellas.
Anywhere we can read your work?
Probably YC Round 2019.
Happens rarely, but I laughed out loud at a HN comment :)
Also the title.
Made my day
this would be hard to scale as you would probably need to generate new images for each client, but if you could auto-generate imagery per client that would help (still the subscription needs to be priced higher)
The "influencer" would just have to take a lot of pictures for each event. Maybe the same from different angles...
Could easily generate hundreds of photos from one "session".
One issue at a time
Or China if they could improve your 'social credit' rating. I am a little disappointed though. From the title I thought the service would be for faking profiles in order to trick the data vacuuming companies. Filling their databases with fake useless garbage has been my desire for awhile.
FWIW services kinda like this already exist — there are marketplaces for "social influencers" to buy content.
Would be great to have a link in this thread for comparison?
Thanks - we're very happy with the reaction and all this amazing discussion - it's exactly what we wanted!
The bottom of the FAQ did me in, but that's a perfect place: the people who are about to bounce anyway.
It even looks like the 'e' is winking. I really like this logo.
I cottoned on that it was (probably) fake, but I can imagine someone doing this for real.
The movie Idiocracy is an example.
movie? thought it’s a documentary
yup, time-shifted documentary.
but the value of t in the film is erroneous, and
the actual value is unknown.
LOL, yep. I used to refer to it as a movie; but now I call it a documentary.