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Random Generator Parodies Vapid Startup Websites

Posted by Soulskill on from the leveraging-your-synergies dept.

alphadogg writes: A pair of Georgia Tech computer science students have created a Random Startup Website Generator that spits out a different jargon-laden startup website every time you click on the URL. Mike Bradley and Tiffany Zhang's project "serves as a parody of startups that have websites full of vague praise and little information about their actual business, often because they have little to show in that regard."

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  1. Are we sure these are parodies? by JanneM · · Score: 4, Funny

    I suspect they could have saved themselves a lot of coding by simply randomly linking to real startup web sites. It'd look no less ridiculous.

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    1. Re:Are we sure these are parodies? by KermodeBear · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Yeah, it's pretty amazing. It reminds me of so many "Web 3.0 Hipster Startups" that bastardize a word and make some kind of vague hand-wavey promise by using a buzzowrd or two and adding "in the cloud".

      Ugh. The modern tech industry makes me want to puke. Maybe I'm getting too old for this...

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    2. Re:Are we sure these are parodies? by Half-pint+HAL · · Score: 4, Funny

      Which begs the question: why is there an E in the word "hipster"?

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  2. It hurts! by markdavis · · Score: 4, Funny

    OK, I am in pain from laughing so hard!

    Some of my favs include:

    * Effortify! "Share your favorite efforts and discover new ones." http://tiffzhang.com/startup/?...

    * Sprayit! "Spray like never before." http://tiffzhang.com/startup/?...

    and

    * Insectify! "The evolution of the insect" http://tiffzhang.com/startup/?...

  3. Re:Zombo com by ClickOnThis · · Score: 5, Informative

    WELcome... to Zombo Com!

    You can do Anything at Zombo Com,

    The only limit...is yourself.

    Sadly, at the moment, the only limit is the zombo.com bandwidth limits.

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  4. Re:Sigh. by Livius · · Score: 4, Funny

    So far they've just taken marketing's jobs.

    Which surprises no-one.

  5. Re:ROTFL! by popo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    At least now perhaps we can put to rest some of these awful trends in web design:

    - Oversized graphics that require excessive scrolling.

    - Parallax silliness (Because we can)

    - Round bio photos (Because Apple, that's why)

    - Giant "flat design" icons that add zero value

    - The full-screen expanded "hero" div which is basically this decade's "title screen". (Seriously, title screens suck. Why is one that requires slowly 'scrolling' past -

    - better than one that one clicks past?)

    - The giant quote. Does this need to fill up 1/3 of my screen? Why?

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  6. Re:ROTFL! by ericloewe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You forgot infinitely-scrolling websites that never destroy any of the shit that now lies the equivalent of 20 pages up.