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Reactions, a new iOS app by Geohot: 2 cameras are better than one

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You don't say anywhere what it actually does, in plain english. I'm guessing by one of the screenshots and the allusions that it takes a photo with your front and back camera at the same time.

To be honest, this site is a very developer/techie targeted. I don't think any average user would be interested in your app form this.

Edit: Also you have four tweet buttons, not sure if thats a bug or on purpose.

Edit 2: Ok didn't even see the top bar until I revisited for the third check over... Overall the whole site is really vague, I'd recommend going over and clarifying the copy, and making that nav more obvious.

And this is why I never post sarcastic jokes to Hacker News. :P

I'm so hoping you're just out-parodying the parody and not taking this seriously.

Are you implying this isn't a real app that will be available soon? I like to think I'm pretty good at "getting" hoaxes, and I'd definitely guess that this is "a real thing". (Though I wouldn't be shocked if it weren't...)

Edit: OK it looks like consensus is that this is satire. I still think it's kind of a neat idea, I admit it…

Oh don't you start!

"At Reactions, we offer you no way to save your pictures. If you want to save them, you have to share them. After a reaction is captured, you have 3 seconds to hit the unlabeled cancel button, or else your photo is automatically shared with all your Facebook friends."

It's all in the cloud.

It is a real app, I've used it. It was created at a recent hackathon called TartanHacks at Carnegie Mellon University. That doesn't change the fact that its satire, though!

OK that's what I was missing. :) I was thinking of "satirical" as meaning it was necessarily "not real".

It's a real app, and it's also satire.

Just like how a satirical movie is still a movie.

Terrible startup idea. There are too many vowels in the name. And zero photo filters.

Silly kids with no technical experience trying to produce apps. If jailbreaking the iPhone were left up to kids like this we'd all be living in Apple's walled garden.

This is awesome. Took me a little while to realize that this was satire... I made the mistake of clicking on the video tab.

It was obvious it was satire.

My question was, was it just a fake product description, or was it actually implemented (ala Cowclicker [1])?

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_Clicker

The scary thing is that it could be as popular as cow clicker.

The base idea - a photo of me and a photo of a thing, both taken at the same time, is pretty neat.

I'd use it if I had a phone with 2 cameras.

Because of the concept I didn't think originally that it was satire. It's not a terrible idea and I could definitely see people using it. My first though was, "Hah, that's kind of a good idea!". Then I actually started looking at web page and it became apparent.

Was this removed from the front page? Whats up with that?

Hacker News is a completely serious link aggregator. This link is WORSE THAN REDDIT.

I find it odd that this was removed while things like vapor.js (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1728645) get posted pretty frequently.

I'm sure they'll be looking at the stats of how many people clicked the Get App button as part of this parody.

This doesn't mean I would buy the app though - it's just probably the one place where somewhere could actually worked out what it did!

Just because Bootstrap is an Open Source project doesn't mean you can just amp their style 100% wholesale.

sigh

thatsthejoke.jpg

Note that Bootstrap offers templates which encourage said style amping: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/getting-started.html#exa...

The app is interesting, but I can't take it seriously with all the snarky descriptions.

Find a better copy writer.

How did that Sony thing end?

This rules! TestFlight?

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