Theranos.world
179 points by kbyatnal 5 hours ago | 91 comments
neom 2 hours ago
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.
replybinlog 2 hours ago
Feels like they are unintentionally marketing the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary rather than themselves.
replysetsewerd 60 minutes ago
Maybe creating the documentary was the most ambitious Nathan For You episode yet, and all simply to build publicity for this company.
replyTraubenfuchs 53 minutes ago
Reddit is full of EH content lately, now this.
replyAll of this must be a marketing campaign for the movie.
Recoil42 31 minutes ago
The event they're hosting is a free watch party for the movie. You didn't exactly crack the case.
replychaidhat 5 minutes ago
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
replyyakkomajuri 2 hours ago
I mean, fair play? I appreciate marketing that has effort involved, especially these days.
replyYou do have to get your word out somehow
regus 3 hours ago
This is great, it reminds me of promotional websites from the Adobe Flash era. Ads were a lot more fun back then.
replyl0c0b0x 2 hours ago
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?
replykokanee 3 hours ago
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
replychihuahua 2 hours ago
You could pitch the idea to Zuck, see if he wants to burn $100b to try it out.
replylumost 3 hours ago
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.
replyWhat 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.
cavemandaveman 2 hours ago
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.
replyWould also make a great Zwift competitor (cycling app where you can hook up your stationary bike and race or ride on certain routes).
ethersteeds 2 hours ago
Bro just go outside
replyfreecodeio 2 hours ago
no sorry have to keep in touch with agents
replyicantevenhold 11 minutes ago
Who else is gonna type “just implement it” or press enter repeatedly
replydijit 3 hours ago
All I feel is that UI of MacOS and iOS is so inferior now than it was then... :\
replyMizza 51 minutes ago
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!
replyAlthough I bet Lizzie used a Pro..
ivanjermakov 2 hours ago
If only apps were opening in an instant, odd feeling of having it on random website but not have it natively.
replylisp2240 2 hours ago
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.
replyandybak 2 hours ago
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
replylukasschwab 3 hours ago
Super slick buried Extend marketing
replykbyatnal 3 hours ago
we parsed all the theranos PDF filings with Extend (https://extend.ai/) and wanted a fun interactive way of visualizing them!
replydaemonologist 2 hours ago
there's even an extend api key in there (invalid though, would've been cool if it did something special)
replyksd482 2 hours ago
The reminders section is the second most entertaining bit after the messages. Look it up. It's hilarious!!!
replyFLeXMurphy 3 hours ago
I love how incredibly vapid the emails and text messages are.
replyAnd by love I of course mean: I love, LOVE, LOVE, [repeat ad nauseam]
Nails on a chalkboard.
flockonus 2 hours ago
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
reply*yes i know, not apples to apples.
karahime 2 hours ago
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.
replylazyasciiart 2 hours ago
Tech? Not the health sector?
replyandy81 14 minutes ago
The "tech" sector label is a fraud in its own right.
replyIt 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.
crossroadsguy 2 hours ago
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.
replygrimgrin 2 hours ago
This is inspired by jmail.world, which may have been inspired itself.
replyIt is obviously not as interesting as jmail.world, but, give her time
robertlane0 2 hours ago
Might be the most tasteful ad I've seen in a hot minute, not bad at all.
replyksd482 3 hours ago
I finished the juice. Now what ?
replyLOL
Excellent work! All the best for the documentary launch!
bolau 3 hours ago
thank you for the kind words!!
replyDonHopkins 2 hours ago
The juice was great. Now I have to pee. Where do I click? Can the machine analyze it?
replybbor 3 hours ago
Ok I'm a pretty passionate anti-advertising advocate, but if advertising is gonna look like anything, it might as well be this!
replyChrisMarshallNY 3 hours ago
Someone posted this[0], a couple of days ago. It was an old marketing ploy for a company called Veracity.
replyDonHopkins 2 hours ago
I took a photo on the iPhone of Elizabeth Holmes and myself hanging out smoking a joint together!
replyThe share button let me download it.
kogasa240p 2 hours ago
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.
replyEDIT: uhh I thought the movie signup thing was a gag, didn't know it was real. Sorry I guess.
next_xibalba 2 hours ago
Kinda cool, but also annoying that it's just backdoor marketing for a b2b SaaS company.
replyiamleppert 30 minutes ago
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?
replyksd482 2 hours ago
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.
replyambicapter 2 hours ago
I don't see how either of your examples are necessarily more direct than the other?
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