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We Created a Fake Delivery Company (kashevko.com)
14 points by 1ikigai on June 30, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments


Pretty whimsical but confusing and borderline creepy, especially the deepfakes and voice cloning without permission. One more thing caught my attention.

> all the [...] poverty of us

Given all the apparatus, robot dog, iPad per delivery ... I don't think we share the same definition of poverty.


Thank you for the feedback! We completely depleted the remaining savings we had into this ''campaign'' (I know, stupid) and interesting part about IPads is that most of the recipients just return the tablets, so we were able to reuse them on each delivery. They also were acquired used off the marketplaces, of course. It's later that we learned majority of these companies have ''no valuable gifts'' policy where they must return things like these.

I agree with you, though. Probably too strong of the word to be used and I should reconsider its usage.


Interesting bit about the gift policy, thank you for sharing. "Limited resources" might be a more appropriate term.

Good luck!


Thank you!

Changed the sentence to: ''Upon being inspired by all the power of London and misery of us''

I think it's better. Thank you again for the feedback! Really appreciate that.


Do I read this correctly - they've targeted 1 person in Facebook via hack and Facebook still drained their ad budget?


It was Linkedin Ads, and sort of yeah, but that's because we didn't had much to start with. Small amounts quickly add up when you need to scale this to another 12 persons as there were other costs involved for every delivery like: printing stickers, photos, getting boxes, small LCD screens for the boxes, markers, etc.


Completely confused as to what they were trying to do other than getting into contact with high up people. I’m surprised they didn’t get more cease and desist letters


Now that you mentioned this... I don't know either, hah.

Good point though, I must've been clearer in the post. The goal was to offer our help/get a job, with this approach acting as sort of a portfolio/walking the walk, since most of our past work has been in gaming and might have been not very relevant to their industries.




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