I tried buying it (with an empty form) and got:

Error: This discount is invalid. Error: One or more of the discounts you entered is invalid Error: Enter an email Error: Please enter a valid email address Error: Please enter your first name

I still can't tell if it's real or not. If this is a parody of random CRUD apps, it's spot on :)

Indeed.

Internet culture is pretty self referential, and I think the culture of the internet extends to the tech industry (and vice versa). I don't think it works all that well in marketing, but I wish it did!

A sense of humor is a good thing and can be extremely powerful in marketing. But self referential humor is often too niche unless you really really know your target audience and you're reasonably sure they'll get the joke.

For the record, it's marketing for a real product. I think hipsters are becoming overrepresented in tech marketing though, haha.

The ordering page actually sends you to PayPal to pay now (someone said it wasn't working earlier). Also there are installation videos on the support page. So it's a real product.

It's not "clever", that's for certain. :/

Thank you for sharing this, I just used one of their actions to makes some graphics for the /help/manuals pages I am working on.

Yes.

No.

If you'd read the copy you'd realise it's designed by Blaz (from Dribbble), I'm just posting on his behalf :)

Edit: it was really just a way to start building photoshop plugins to see what the ecosystem is like, we've got 4 new plugins that are actually useful for a wife audience coming out soon.

Both are by the same person, think of it as a free v1, or a paid for and feature rich v2

It's to mainstream.

it's compatible only with the next version until it's out.

> This is a useful service

Only if you are trying to make an otherwise unremarkable design look much better than it is. This is gimmicky and misleading. This is what's been ruining Behance and Dribbble for a while now, pushing total crap to the front page just because it looks pretty and forcing others to focus on superficial decoration rather than on actually important parts like interaction and convenience.

The copy is spot on and sarcasm is well justified. Well done, OP.

If it's useful and the copy is meant to appeal to its target demographic, what's wrong with that? Clearly a lot of potential buyers seem to be appreciating the humor...

I can't figure out exactly what you mean but I'm guessing that you consider the word "slave" to be racist, which makes me wonder if you're just parodying something. I'm too old to get the super-sensitivity that plagues modern youth so i often can't distinguish serious vs parodic positions. little help?

I didn't quite pick up the stuff relating to slavery, but I'm pretty sure that the market of 'designers with STDs' is pretty slim and won't be feeling too outraged.

This assumes that some people deserve being "taken down a notch" which is a pretty fundamental flaw in leftist ethics if you ask me.

Ideas are bad. People are just a product of their environment like any other animal.

Tumblr is that way >>>

> but I love the copy and spammed it all over the twitterverse

Whoa. So for a while I wondered why the authors would be such shitty thick dicks but now I know why. In the "Attention Economy" (ugh) this is apparently what you need to be doing in order to be viral. So "viral" was actually a spot-on phrasing from the very beginning, anticipating that ultimately only rather sickening style will become indeed "viral".

Now it's satire. A few years from now this kind of copy will go mainstream and kids will grow up to it. I'm scared shirtless about my old age now :D

I believe this is what the kids call 'satire'

I guess that's the reason to do it. Hei... stop looking at the product and check out this fancy effects.