Vooza

[JonnieCache]

Woefully inaccurate: it has vowels in the name. In fact, mostly vowels in the name.

Also, collegehumor did this better a year ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMmdl4VltD4

For that matter, so did Color.

[kposehn]

"For that matter, so did Color."

That is an epic burn.

[sp332]

Or this more tech-oriented one from 2006: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmo1ef7tVso

[rokhayakebe]

FWIW I believe the original promess of color, creating on-the-fly location based social networks, was a game-changing concept. It's bad they did not stick with it despite a failed launch.

[benihana]

Beta user of Vooza here. Just gotta say, I love how the cloud based crowd sourced API social graph seamlessly allows me to wiki the S3 storage for microblogging and geolocation services by using distributed computing. It's pretty amazing!

[vladiim]

ZOMG!

Have you played with QQQQ ..k ...5 yet??

[slavak]

Obligatory XKCD link: http://xkcd.com/1060/

[dguaraglia]

Although I find it as funny as everyone else, I also think there's a cautionary tale in there, somewhere.

A little over a year ago I did a few months of contracting for a company that was exactly like Vooza: buzzwords-galore, moving goalposts every month, no revenue model to speak of besides borrowing more money from investors... a complete and utter disaster.

I don't know where those guys are nowadays, and I truly don't care, but to me as a developer those months were a massive waste of time and energy drain.

So the lesson to learn is: before you agree to work for anyone, no matter how much money/equity they promise you "when VC money comes in" do your due diligence, a critical assessment of the company and ask the hard questions before committing to anything. You'll thank me later.

[laconian]

I think Vooza's looking for their first technical hire, too!

I wonder if he'll be a rockstar ninja.

[vooza]

We are hiring rockstars, ninjas, and wizards. You'll see.

[Mz]

Rockstar ninja: I totally has the bling bling and noize to go stealth and assassinate someone unnoticed.

Totally.

[kposehn]

Best sarcastic comment from one of my co-founders: "Crap! They stole our idea"

[nateberkopec]

Just in case: this is satire. Hilarious satire.

[paulgb]

Reminds me of Zombocom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombo.com / http://www.zombo.com)

[sliverstorm]

Of course, like all satire, it wouldn't be so hilarious if it didn't strike uncomfortably close to home.

[brado86]

...And we've arrived at the zombo.com point of this round of startup fever.

[smoyer]

I enjoyed the satire in the video like most of the commentators below, but I have to admit I almost entered my e-mail address just to see what they'd send from a site that's obviously a spoof. (I didn't)

I'm really hoping that they're collecting as much demographics about the visitors and those who do enter their e-mail as possible. Wouldn't that make an amazing social experiment?

[vooza]

We will reveal more soon! Don't be afraid to sign up.

[laconian]

It is kind of sad how this Mad Libs exercise accurately describes so many of the startups that dominate the headlines and monopolize our talent.

[oacgnol]

Doomed to fail; they never mentioned scalability. How do they expect to grow to millions of users without web scale technologies?

[egallardo]

Or disruption. Which 5 industries is Vooza going to disrupt?

[vooza]

Scaling is a TOP priority at Vooza. We are ready for 1 million customers.

[jonzjia]

"Vooza needs money. That way we can go...international."

Brilliant.

[mintplant]

Correction: they need users.

[creativityland]

Favorite part: Then we can go... International.

[kposehn]

My apologies if anyone was offended by the original title - I should of course point out that it is satire :)

[steve918]

They forgot to talk about how their whole goal is to sell to Google for a billion dollars in 6 months.

[leot]

It seems this has been disappeared from HN.

Was it flagged too many times, or something?

[delinquentme]

I like the part where they use humor, because I would have just been as asshole about it.

[achompas]

Signed up. It looks like these guys really understand today's tech ecosystem.

/serious

[amykhar]

I absolutely love this.

[iM8t]

Will it run on my iPhone?

[vooza]

It is cross-platform and totally compliant and there's an API and badges.