Vooza

http://www.vooza.com/m.html

by kposehn • 14 years ago

60 37 14 years ago

vooza.com

amykhar• 14 years ago

I absolutely love this.

nateberkopec• 14 years ago

Just in case: this is satire. Hilarious satire.

sliverstorm3• 14 years ago

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

paulgb• 14 years ago

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

yelloblac• 14 years ago

amazing

laconian2• 14 years ago

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

I wonder if he'll be a rockstar ninja.

vooza5• 14 years ago

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

Mz• 14 years ago

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

Totally.

kposehn3• 14 years ago

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

steve918• 14 years ago

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

jonzjia• 14 years ago

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

Brilliant.

mintplant• 14 years ago

Correction: they need users.

vooza5• 14 years ago

We need it all. Users, money, a clue, etc.

achompas• 14 years ago

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

/serious

delinquentme• 14 years ago

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

laconian2• 14 years ago

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.

benihana• 14 years ago

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• 14 years ago

ZOMG!

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

JonnieCache• 14 years ago

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.

sp332• 14 years ago

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

kposehn3• 14 years ago

"For that matter, so did Color."

That is an epic burn.

sliverstorm3• 14 years ago

"epic" was played out the day it started getting used in radio ads.

rokhayakebe• 14 years ago

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.

iM8t• 14 years ago

Will it run on my iPhone?

vooza5• 14 years ago

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

oacgnol• 14 years ago

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

egallardo• 14 years ago

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

sliverstorm3• 14 years ago

All of them.

vooza5• 14 years ago

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

slavak• 14 years ago

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

brado86• 14 years ago

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

creativityland• 14 years ago

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

smoyer• 14 years ago

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?

vooza5• 14 years ago

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

kposehn3• 14 years ago

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

leot• 14 years ago

It seems this has been disappeared from HN.

Was it flagged too many times, or something?

dguaraglia• 14 years ago

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.

Vooza

Related Stories