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Peeple, so-called “Yelp for people”, may be vaporware

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12 pointsColinWright6 comments

Maybe it's intended to raise awareness about how e.g. companies use the internet to check out prospective employees. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_reputation_management

>70 percent of companies have rejected candidates based on the candidate's online reputation, but only 7 percent of Americans believe it affects their job search

I've been wondering if its a subtle viral promotion for a television show or movie.

Is there any source that identifies the supposed investors? The Washington Post article just includes the nonsensical sentence "As of Monday, the company’s shares put its value at $7.6 million."

Like any HN reader, I want to believe that two women with no coding background can develop and ship in 90 days an app that will scale to millions of users...

These guys are the new lion-shooting dentists of the internet, but I'm afraid it's all a publicity stunt.

If you watch their (cringe-worthy) videos on their page they give away some of those details. Though again, the details are self-edited and should likely be taken with a grain of salt.

At one point they mention that 35k in funding just fell through, but 'the government' just stepped up with 50k.

At another point they mention interacting with their development team in India. Letting their engineers choose the better of two different feature-paths each founder came up with.

They also mention that they're applying to YC and have the support of at least one alumnus.

So far it's quite the parody of the San Francisco App-making culture.

I think there's a large amount of us who COULD build this, but have chosen not to.

the problem is now that the idea is out in the wild, SOMEONE will.

To me, the only way to deal with this is to bomb it, throw as many negative reviews to as many people as possible. Make so much noise no signal can get through.

Someone did. It was called Lulu.

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