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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. nomilk · 1789993803 · focus · HN ↗
    ^^ this is actually a great lesson in the power of marketing. In this case, something as simple as a product name.
    pentaphobe · 1789995115 · focus · HN ↗
    Forgive me using your comment as a madlib, but one potential ending:
    (something as simple as a product name)... is enough to make someone ignore the actual point about software trust and instead argue that good marketing is what's important :)
    fc417fc802 · 1790003873 · focus · HN ↗
    Depends on the implied meaning. What technical reason? There isn't one, obviously. But what about the practical reason for the behavior we observe? That's explained by the name and marketing. And if your goal is to understand "why are people doing this" then indeed marketing is what's important and software trust only barely enters into it.
    Of course the irony there is palpable. Worry about the glasses while disregarding everything else.

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