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It's a brutally honest look at the shortcomings of a startup backed by a product, that seriously, looks to be at least decent.

Their intent is to get you to convert, but instead of giving the usual flowery bullshit, they make you laugh.

Fine, I'll try it.

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I didn't come out of it thinking this is real.

At some point, the amount of people who have the curiosity to click any of the links probably outweighs the poor traffic if it was just like "we made a new tracker".

I think they've hit that point.

Absolutely, they got my eyes on the product for far longer than they would have otherwise.

I thought it was a joke, too, until I came here and started reading comments.

Their intent is to get free advertising by being on the front page of HN.

This page could be worse at conversion but wins by going viral.

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