This Startup Does Not Exist

Anyone else get the sense this is more of a Mad-Libs style fill-in as opposed to the sort of AI-generated content found in other thisXdoesnotexist sites?

I've often felt that most startup landing pages are just a variation upon a theme, and this site proves it to be true, literally. They have managed to distill it down to the basic elements of unoriginality that constitute the local maxima of startup landing pages today. Personally, whenever I see one of these kinds landing pages it serves as a huge red flag.

FYI: Press the refresh button. It generates a different fake compay every time you refresh it.<p>Looks like it is kinda an AI research but I cannot get any detail behind it.

This is shockingly real.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgtc.com&#x2F;DawgjdH.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgtc.com&#x2F;DawgjdH.png</a>

The manually generated code seemed to produce funnier outputs<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tiffzhang.com&#x2F;startup&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tiffzhang.com&#x2F;startup&#x2F;</a>

This is boring, you drop a bunch of resources and templates and then use random() to choose templates and resources to fill them in.<p>How about going more meta with thisthisdoesnotexistdoesnotexist.com?

For those who were as confused as I was: Every time you refresh the page, it comes up with a new startup, with new people and titles etc.

Reminds me of the startup generator: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tiffzhang.com&#x2F;startup" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;tiffzhang.com&#x2F;startup</a><p>HN discussion (2015): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9427856" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9427856</a>

Amusing, but it feels like a template where some variables are filled by random selection from an array. Closer to SimCity 2000 newspapers than to thispersondoesnotexist.com

&quot;Unend: Get your groceries supplied by badly paid people because you&#x27;re too lazy.&quot;

&gt; <i>&quot;Locer: is using the blockchain to create AI-Chatbots&quot;</i><p>This one is hilarious... Is it like, you need to wait for the block time (20 minutes) to get one reply from the bot?

I laughed at this one:<p>&quot;Get your groceries supplied by badly paid people because you&#x27;re too lazy.&quot;

Its address generation is a bit wonky. It doesn&#x27;t respect address formats of different countries. It assumes all addresses follow this format: &quot;&lt;Street name&gt; street no. &lt;number&gt;, &lt;5 digit postal number&gt;, &lt;City&gt;&quot;.<p>An actual working random address generation would be kind of cool. But this really isn&#x27;t. Plus, as far as I know, postal numbers are available from OpenStreetMaps&#x27; database or Google Maps.

<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.piedpiper.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.piedpiper.com&#x2F;</a>

Love this one:<p>Disous - Aggregate the long tail and drive discovery &quot;Disous is the new Google Plus&quot;<p>Blockchain &amp; AI, Funding and Fresh are just a few characteristic of Disous. But we offer a lot more!<p>Find us at the office<p>Rinkle- Gailey street no. 97, 61663 Vatican City, Vatican City

Another synthetic content generator to add to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;paubric&#x2F;awesome-doesnotexist" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;paubric&#x2F;awesome-doesnotexist</a>

This one is hilarious: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net</a>

I&#x27;d like to see an AI driven predictor of which Google service&#x2F;api will not exist in five years so we can go ahead and not use it now.

What&#x27;s next? thisworlddoesnotexist.com? Generate an entire random world with people and everything in it from some ML experiement?

This neuron is divine. May I ask, Neuronka generates both text and icons and images or only text? And if she generates icons too, then where does she look for them, or where does she get them from, I can&#x27;t believe that she draws the icons herself?

Also reminds me of the ICO websites that were rampant at the peak of the bitcoin bubble.

I don&#x27;t get it. Is it a parody? A copy of an existing website? An attempt to see how many people will sign up without reading the URL or page? An actual startup with an &quot;ironic&quot; URL?

&quot;Sumile is like Google Plus but for Faith&quot;, actual lol!

Quape &quot;Get your groceries supplied by badly paid people because you&#x27;re too lazy&quot;<p>If it were an ML-model, it would be AlphaZero of sarcasm.

The generated pages definitely are very structured, with each page belonging to a certain area&#x2F;subject (ie. &quot;Blockchain for Kids&quot; is then presented as &quot;Not just a Blockchain&quot;). A lot seems to be cut-and-paste together, and not a purist implementation of GANs. With that being said, it still is very impressive that these generic page designs can feel like real world examples of what you might see in a pre-seed startup site. The satire hits right on the mark.

Please do the next one: this VC does not exist.

The second result I got was Audible. Not sure Amazon would allow startup with this name…

Just loaded this up, my first startup:<p>Boner, Applying Blockchain<p>:D

&quot;Amicious is like Facebook but for Communication&quot;<p>Perhaps not a brilliant startup idea.

This could be used to create mockups for Envato&#x2F;Theme Forest templates.

We need a .doesnotexist TLD.

&quot;Spotify but for restaurants&quot; actually sounds great though.

Are the founder images also deep-fakes, or are they of real people?

My first suspicion was seeing a company based out of Islamabad.

This &quot;Does Not Exist&quot; website does not exist.

&quot;Infratz is more than just a random Idea&quot;

&quot;Boner is like Google but for Photos&quot;<p>well...

HAHAHAH!! This is frickin hilarious! Thanks to whomever created this for sharing.

ROFL. This is hilarious.

Can anybody explain to me what is the purpose of this kind of bullshit website?