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.
Made my day
Also the title.
Happens rarely, but I laughed out loud at a HN comment :)
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)
One issue at a time
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".
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?
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.
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
LOL, yep. I used to refer to it as a movie; but now I call it a documentary.
yup, time-shifted documentary.
but the value of t in the film is erroneous, and
the actual value is unknown.