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Re:"I had the same drug dealer as the guy who invented Kicks... by dariusmonsef on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @03:23PM (#4480971)
Ugh, there is startup founder fanfiction now?
Re:"I had the same drug dealer as the guy who invented Kicks... by vandahm on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @03:42PM (#4481077)
Not exactly -- the founder in the story is a fictional man named Tom.

The author, Miracle Jones, has a website with a number of bizarre, but well-written short stories:

http://miraclejones.blogspot.com/

Re:"I had the same drug dealer as the guy who invented Kicks... by shimsham on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @03:26PM (#4480985)
U forgot to add, "Awesome!!!" with a truly beautiful UI.
Re:"I had the same drug dealer as the guy who invented Kicks... by systematical on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @03:34PM (#4481026)
Really I thought the UI was terrible. So terrible I stopped reading. I want to focus on content, not shit scrolling. Terrible.
Re:"I had the same drug dealer as the guy who invented Kicks... by againandagain on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @03:55PM (#4481146)
By content do you mean text, images, or both? Do you care about things like fonts? Or is it more important that stuff is just consistently readble? What if there a way to make all text on all websites look exactly the same (only formatting is different)?
Re:"I had the same drug dealer as the guy who invented Kicks... by shimsham on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @03:41PM (#4481068)
Hmmm, that was called irony.
Re:"I had the same drug dealer as the guy who invented Kicks... by exDM69 on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @04:13PM (#4481233)
Yes, there is startup fan fiction. This isn't even the first piece I've seen on Hacker News. I think it's kind of fucked up, but who am I to say, working a regular job for the man.
Re:"I had the same drug dealer as the guy who invented Kicks... by iamdann on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @03:38PM (#4481057)
I absolutely love Miracle Jones' writing (http://miraclejones.blogspot.com/), but thought this story was fairly lackluster.

Definitely check out "Fear Boys With Dolls" (http://miraclejones.blogspot.com/2010/07/fear-boys-with-doll...) and "Mutamate" (http://miraclejones.blogspot.com/2012/03/mutamate-i-decided-...).

Re:"I had the same drug dealer as the guy who invented Kicks... by Avalaxy on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @03:49PM (#4481106)
What a terrible waste of time. I thought this stuff was real so I read the whole thing. What's the whole point of this text, is it supposed to be funny?
Re:"I had the same drug dealer as the guy who invented Kicks... by stephengillie on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @03:55PM (#4481143)
It's art.
Re:"I had the same drug dealer as the guy who invented Kicks... by kennywinker on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @04:47PM (#4481391)
Awesome. I thought it was legit until about half way through. Some pissed off person dragging the Kickstarter guy through the mud... very entertaining.