today at 8:37 PM
In the "Notes" app on the iphone, there is a note which says "msg me on X". Back then, it was Twitter. Boy, I hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
today at 9:07 PM
What are we to believe this is some sort of, snort heh* magic iPhone or something?
today at 9:21 PM
She was truly ahead of her time.
today at 9:42 PM
I'd love to agree with you but that look like the site designer asking for feedback on his site
today at 8:38 PM
good catch, i may need to find a new job soon
today at 9:36 PM
its still called twitter
(for some of us)
today at 10:28 PM
I will never call it X and die violently on this hill
today at 10:32 PM
How about Xitter? :]
today at 8:46 PM
[Scoff, Scoff]
today at 8:43 PM
Content marketing for a startup that does "Document infrastructure for agents". They want you to sign up for an event they're hosting in SF.
today at 10:36 PM
At least this is a fun ad. I appreciate the level of commitment the developers put into it. It's not just vibe coded slop which is rare
today at 8:57 PM
Feels like they are unintentionally marketing the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary rather than themselves.
today at 9:41 PM
Maybe creating the documentary was the most ambitious Nathan For You episode yet, and all simply to build publicity for this company.
today at 10:03 PM
Wait, this isn't marketing for the documentary?
today at 9:48 PM
Reddit is full of EH content lately, now this.
All of this must be a marketing campaign for the movie.
today at 9:03 PM
Llllllllllllol?
today at 10:10 PM
The event they're hosting is a free watch party for the movie. You didn't exactly crack the case.
today at 9:29 PM
I mean, fair play? I appreciate marketing that has effort involved, especially these days.
You do have to get your word out somehow
today at 10:33 PM
The iPhone works and you can even play/listen to music on it!
today at 10:36 PM
Even the Theranos machine
today at 8:36 PM
This is great, it reminds me of promotional websites from the Adobe Flash era. Ads were a lot more fun back then.
today at 8:50 PM
They replaced the old space jam website with a boring href to a yt of the trailer :(
today at 10:34 PM
I cant believe they've done this. They didnt even use iframes.
today at 8:41 PM
make ads fun again
today at 8:43 PM
MAFA
today at 8:46 PM
Make Ads Fun & Interesting Again - MAFIA
today at 8:48 PM
Why do I have Nathan Fielder's look in my face (same when he was staring at as EH on the pilot), as I'm going through all the features on this site?
today at 9:03 PM
Hope you're lounging on somebody else's bed too, while you're doing that. :D
today at 8:31 PM
Whoa. With a lidar scan of my house, a drone-captured point cloud of my neighborhood, and a backup of my icloud, I could create an immersive 3D snapshot of my life. And then what if other people did the same and we networked them together, so that we can actually interact in the snapshot. It'd be like second life except actually cloned from real lives. weird
today at 9:12 PM
You could pitch the idea to Zuck, see if he wants to burn $100b to try it out.
today at 8:34 PM
I had a thought the other day that you could probably divide up the world into cubic miles and with a few thousand codex subscriptions make a high fidelity blender model of the entire world based on google maps, street view, and tagged location photos.
What would you do with a whole model of the world? I don't know, but it would be fun to walk a national park while I'm on the treadmill or basejump off of a realistic el capitan.
today at 9:05 PM
Microsoft has done that to some extent with Flight Simulator using older machine learning techniques. Wouldn't call most of the world high fidelity yet but I'm sure they could get there with generative AI models. I'm also sure the anti-AI screeching in the gaming community would be heard for miles.
Would also make a great Zwift competitor (cycling app where you can hook up your stationary bike and race or ride on certain routes).
today at 9:04 PM
Bro just go outside
today at 9:20 PM
no sorry have to keep in touch with agents
today at 10:30 PM
Who else is gonna type “just implement it” or press enter repeatedly
today at 8:36 PM
If only google could use their AI to generate a wiremesh model out of their google maps streetview data, and make it public. And then another model to generate texture.
today at 8:48 PM
Burying the api key in notes on the laptop is a nice touch.
today at 9:27 PM
I need to delete that key again. I keep recreating it with the same value, but nothing seems to work. I want to use this key with the value but in a way that nobody else knows the value. Sigh. Security is difficult.
today at 8:34 PM
All I feel is that UI of MacOS and iOS is so inferior now than it was then... :\
today at 9:50 PM
Same, but for that generation of MacBook Air. Insane quality and value for the price. And you didn't have to wait 6 weeks to get them!
Although I bet Lizzie used a Pro..
today at 8:49 PM
If only apps were opening in an instant, odd feeling of having it on random website but not have it natively.
today at 8:40 PM
only because it was. We peaked with skeuomorphism at the turn of millenium.
today at 8:06 PM
Super slick buried Extend marketing
today at 8:11 PM
we parsed all the theranos PDF filings with Extend (https://extend.ai/) and wanted a fun interactive way of visualizing them!
today at 9:32 PM
Took me a while to figure out why, till I opened Safari read "document processing" and it clicked. Good job.
today at 8:48 PM
there's even an extend api key in there (invalid though, would've been cool if it did something special)
today at 8:09 PM
thank you!!
today at 10:12 PM
This is remarkably well-made, I love these little simulator dealies.
today at 8:57 PM
It's so strange to see this here. I remember when this site was nothing but foaming-at-the-mouth fawning adoration of Elizabeth Holmes long after her scams were exposed.
today at 9:00 PM
My first memory of her being mentioned on this site was the dawning skepticism followed by the big expose. But it's possible I missed the fawning because it didn't sound as interesting
today at 9:23 PM
I posted about Theranos 2013. Not entirely sure, but I think it was when they launched publicly.
Crazy how my gut feeling was more than vindicated.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6349349
today at 9:05 PM
[dead]
today at 8:46 PM
The reminders section is the second most entertaining bit after the messages. Look it up. It's hilarious!!!
today at 8:54 PM
yay i'm glad people are finding all the easter eggs!
today at 9:10 PM
It is a bit hilarious that most of the "apps" open faster in a fake desktop simulated inside the browser than it actually does natively on my Macbook Pro
*yes i know, not apples to apples.
today at 8:28 PM
I love how incredibly vapid the emails and text messages are.
And by love I of course mean: I love, LOVE, LOVE, [repeat ad nauseam]
Nails on a chalkboard.
today at 9:13 PM
You know, for a single pretty rare case of fraud in tech, as opposed to the industries where fraud is common, this gets brought up an excessive amount a decade later.
today at 9:34 PM
Tech? Not the health sector?
today at 10:27 PM
The "tech" sector label is a fraud in its own right.
It makes sense to have a separate label for companies that develop software. They have a unique investment appeal because their cost of production doesn't increase with units sold, so higher PE ratio if growing.
For "some reason" Netflix isn't priced as a media company. Tesla isn't priced as manufacturing.
today at 10:28 PM
That's fair, I guess it depends on how you divide it.
today at 10:14 PM
Bo you are a legend!!!
today at 8:44 PM
In my genearl observations of office desks/cubicles around me I have noticed that the only people with carefully stacked books, often more than one or two, were the ones who didn't really read.
today at 9:04 PM
This is inspired by jmail.world, which may have been inspired itself.
It is obviously not as interesting as jmail.world, but, give her time
today at 9:29 PM
Might be the most tasteful ad I've seen in a hot minute, not bad at all.
today at 8:11 PM
The page crashes instantly in Safari on iOS on an iPhone 13.
today at 8:15 PM
Works great on my iPhone 13.
today at 8:21 PM
today at 8:12 PM
looking into it!
today at 8:46 PM
Love the camera jump scare. Genius
today at 8:47 PM
i'm glad someone found it!!
today at 8:35 PM
I finished the juice. Now what ?
LOL
Excellent work! All the best for the documentary launch!
today at 8:37 PM
thank you for the kind words!!
today at 9:29 PM
The juice was great. Now I have to pee. Where do I click? Can the machine analyze it?
today at 8:10 PM
this site is so slick great job! love how the email in the iphone works
today at 8:12 PM
there's too many easter eggs to count, I didn't even realize that one existed
today at 8:34 PM
thank you :))
today at 8:06 PM
Ok I'm a pretty passionate anti-advertising advocate, but if advertising is gonna look like anything, it might as well be this!
today at 8:33 PM
Someone posted this[0], a couple of days ago. It was an old marketing ploy for a company called Veracity.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49932236
today at 8:10 PM
thank you :)
today at 8:55 PM
I spent way to much time with that :-D
today at 9:27 PM
you can click on the drink to take a sip btw
today at 8:24 PM
There is no way to run for the door.
today at 9:18 PM
I took a photo on the iPhone of Elizabeth Holmes and myself hanging out smoking a joint together!
The share button let me download it.
today at 9:09 PM
As someone who only knows Theranos by the creepy lady and that they did some scam this is very interesting. Only critique is that it calls Twitter X, which isn't historically accurate.
EDIT: uhh I thought the movie signup thing was a gag, didn't know it was real. Sorry I guess.
today at 9:02 PM
Kinda cool, but also annoying that it's just backdoor marketing for a b2b SaaS company.
today at 10:11 PM
Why are people giving her anymore attention and time? Yawn. I don't get it. The story has been told, there is nothing new here besides some weird shots of her wide eyed like she always has been. Am I the only person who isn't impressed?
today at 9:25 PM
Now do Epstein's Laptop!
today at 8:10 PM
woah this is such a throwback, made me oddly nostalgic. great fucking work
today at 8:37 PM
thank you!!
today at 8:42 PM
Not that it matters or anyone cares, but it's so obvious Balwani was manipulating her emotionally. There are so many instances where he says "Love you", or "love" or "I am in love with your beauty", while she is more direct like "I love you", "I am in love with you" etc.
today at 8:47 PM
I don't see how either of your examples are necessarily more direct than the other?
today at 8:49 PM
hmm..perhaps I was biased because I watched a couple of documentaries, a tv film and read the book by John Carreyrou "Bad Blood", so my eyes were primed to look for this pattern.
But he was definitely manipulative in this regard.