Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC tweets and it became a VC

Re:Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC twe... by dozzman on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:59PM (#21707642)

I just got the same one... Are they pre-generated maybe?

Edit: Link: https://www.parrot.vc/-LvAxcZD23ySp2dL0sZw

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Re:Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC twe... by nloui on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @05:00PM (#21707665)

They generate on a cron job every 15 minutes and I also pass the site through a Cloudflare cache because I'm cheap and the actual code runs on a $5 DigitalOcean box :-)

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Re:Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC twe... by apsdsm on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @06:28PM (#21708305)

That’s not cheap: that’s smart. Knowing this makes me like the whole thing even more.

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Re:Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC twe... by codetrotter on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @05:02PM (#21707683)

Pre-generated is fine but could you change the text on the button that says “generate” to something else then?

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Re:Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC twe... by raverbashing on Thursday December 05, 2019 @01:58AM (#21710492)

So, it's webscale already. VCs will love this! /s

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Re:Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC twe... by codetrotter on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @05:00PM (#21707668)

Me too. They must be.

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Re:Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC twe... by guelo on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @05:01PM (#21707677)

Me three.

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