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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.

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