How inspiring. In a war torn country, a man perseveres and continues making the internet worse.<p>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.<p>It isn't a click farm, it's a bot farm.
> Large grocery stores and apartment buildings use big generators, they are the size of a car and way quieter than small generators.<p>Many industrial generators are enclosed in a box that absorbs most of the noise, unlike the smaller ones.
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.
Has there been any significant use of decentralized mesh communication networks in Ukraine in the last years?
"We now continue to work as before, getting social media engagement for us and our clients, applying to YC 2026 and other VCs."<p>Ehh, so this is a click farm?
At this point, is the most "effective ethical" career path for a software developer to work on LLMs to flood social media and ad-clicks to speedrun the collapse of digital marketing? And thus freeing competent but money-driven software engineers to work on something else?
Yeah now we know why it’s on the front page not even 10 minutes after posting…
> We help startups get attention with automated social media marketing on physical phones.
Combining what Ukraine is known for, kicking Russian ass and creating shady software
With only 60 phones, this is like a click homestead.
<i>> Your own army of physical phones in just a few clicks</i><p>From a project page linked from the original post.
What a rollercoaster to arrive at that in the end
Click farms effectively function as janitors, mopping up spam someone else paid to throw so that no real user stumbles upon it, so they are beneficial.
Yes
"I saw the best minds of my generation..."
Слава Україні!
> There even was an official program to replace your old lightbulb for a new LED one for free<p>Wow do they still have incandescent lightbulbs? Mental.