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ZuckOff is a free app that sees Meta glasses before they see you

400 points · 351 comments · choult

flexagoon · 1789991418 · focus · HN ↗
Not sure why you'd use this sketchy vibecoded proprietary app over the same thing that's open source and existed for a while
<a href="https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses
1. colesantiago · 1789992258 · focus · HN ↗
  Unless you're selling to grandparents over 50-70, nobody says yj_nearbyclasses or "Nearby Glasses".
  "ZuckOff" is a better quality marketing name for an app like this, vibecoded or not.
  The media and already consumers have talked more about "ZuckOff" than "Nearby Glasses" so a winner has already been chosen.
  1. gelly321 · 1789993335 · focus · HN ↗
    It's not about a winner. This isn't CNN, there's no reason, (if you know better) to use the vibe coded sketchy software like he said. We're better than this. Do you really think popular = automatically better?
    colesantiago · 1789994805 · focus · HN ↗
    > It's not about a winner.
    And it is not about being first here. ZuckOff is just a better packaged app, that's why it took off.
    > Do you really think popular = automatically better?
    If it gets the point effectively across better than the original.
    Yes.
    It is more supported than something that is OSS that will die in under a year.
    There are features that ZuckOff has that are more useful than the suggested one IMO.
    For a vibecoded app, it is well packaged with a great name.
    That is how you get people to use your app.
    pentaphobe · 1789995343 · focus · HN ↗
    I'd rather use software which was made to solve a problem than software that exists to "get" people to use it.
    justacrow · 1789996984 · focus · HN ↗
    Nearby Glasses has 100k downloads, while ZuckOff is sitting at 1k.
    getpokedagain · 1790016434 · focus · HN ↗
    Why use logic when you can use ai pixie dust and marketing and of course our good friend. Bullshit.
    pocksuppet · 1789997548 · focus · HN ↗
    popular != better but better == popular
    If you see something that is popular but you think it is worse, then your better/worse axis is not aligned with the majority.
    For example, X is better than Mastodon because you don't have to pick a server to use.
    orwin · 1790000198 · focus · HN ↗
    Untrue for sails, untrue for dinghys, untrue for foils, because price discrimination. I thought it might have been true for catamaran, but I looked it up and it seems that Hobie Cat 16 are still more popular than Nacras for some inimaginable reason, as for once it's not price related.
    If I go on another subject I invested time in, RPGs, D&D is the most popular system while inferior imho to a lot of others. Even if we have to keep the very flawed d20 system, the way forgotten chronicles handles everything is superior (and if in your bad opinion it's not the case because weirdly you like the class system, you probably would prefer pathfinder instead of dnd).

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