Check out the guy's social media (links in the original article). The shit is downright hilarious. He's very self-conscious about how horrible his business is.
That depends on what the source of your heating is.
Say, in Norway we largely use (hydro-) electric power for heating, anyway.
So, the 2% efficient (for lighting) incandescent bulb doubles as a 98% efficient space heater, utilizing the 2% loss to light said space. 100% efficient!
I love the ingenuity of this, truly in the hacker spirit! I also lol'd at how fast this got onto the FP given what these guys do, jolly good show gents! Well Played.
How inspiring. In a war torn country, a man perseveres and continues making the internet worse.
The founder's LinkedIn describes his job as "Automating phones for you - Dead internet as a service", and also has a post where he proudly states that this post was "banned on Hacker News", so I don't doubt that he's abusing the phones here too.
It's significantly more difficult to get a working DC-DC setup up and running that's actually reliable and safe. The power supplies on these devices expect 220V AC so it's easier to just feed that in, and rely on the onboard power supplies to handle the complexities of creating a DC source that is within tolerance for the actual device.
> We now continue to work as before, getting social media engagement for us and our clients, applying to YC 2026 and other VCs.
Why would YC fund a clickfarm? Besides that, there's something frustrating about these people setting up emergency infrastructure specifically to profit off making the internet worse.
I'm very impressed that even in time of war, when one's bare necessities are not met and explosive devices are flying over one's head, everything is done to make the internet -and by extension, ironically, the world- a worse place to be.
But let's keep pumping these fake engagement numbers up boys! This is fine.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 56.0 ms ] threadEhh, so this is a click farm?
No no no, it's far worse than that, it's a bot farm.
Wow do they still have incandescent lightbulbs? Mental.
Say, in Norway we largely use (hydro-) electric power for heating, anyway.
So, the 2% efficient (for lighting) incandescent bulb doubles as a 98% efficient space heater, utilizing the 2% loss to light said space. 100% efficient!
Many industrial generators are enclosed in a box that absorbs most of the noise, unlike the smaller ones.
The founder's LinkedIn describes his job as "Automating phones for you - Dead internet as a service", and also has a post where he proudly states that this post was "banned on Hacker News", so I don't doubt that he's abusing the phones here too.
It isn't a click farm, it's a bot farm.
But the server and phones use 12V/5V DC. Why the extra step of DC 12V (inverter) -> AC 220V (server PSU) -> DC 12/5V ?
Why would YC fund a clickfarm? Besides that, there's something frustrating about these people setting up emergency infrastructure specifically to profit off making the internet worse.
But let's keep pumping these fake engagement numbers up boys! This is fine.