Show HN: Bitterness – Personalized Pranks Delivered

sshah1983 11 years ago |

Would love to hear any feedback.

We want to help folks have some fun in SF this April Fools' Day. Give it a shot - it's totally free. Happy to answer any questions as well.

kookiekrak 11 years ago | |

april fools! check your hawaii image

sshah1983 11 years ago | | |

Good catch...working on the edit!

kookiekrak 11 years ago | | |

also how do i get to your normal gifts or are the bitterness ones all that you're running now

edit nvm i saw your reply below. i think i ordered a product? is there a confirmation somewhere?

edit edit i got the email awesome! you guys should do some sort of order history list in the app

sshah1983 11 years ago | | |

You should have received a confirmation email. We would have sent the recipient an email asking them to setup their gift delivery (i.e., let us know the place and time they want their gift delivered). If you didn't get a confirm email, just shoot us a note at support@sweetnessapp.com and we'll take care of it.

Normal gifts will be back in play on Wednesday!

sidviswanathan 11 years ago | | |

You should have received a confirmation email, did you get one?

shirazi 11 years ago |

It's hard not to laugh when making the video. I can't wait until I get the results.

sshah1983 11 years ago | |

Gotta keep a straight face :)

danvu 11 years ago |

I think this is a great idea and have some folks that I am going to try this on.

sshah1983 11 years ago | |

Awesome. Yea, give it a shot. Would love to hear your thoughts and learn about how your recipient reacted.

Super pumped for 4/1.

moah 11 years ago |

Hmm this could be neat. What's the limit of things you'd deliver?

sshah1983 11 years ago | |

Right now for 4/1, we're just doing the 3 pranks. Everything is pretty much a gift box + cookie + envelope containing the custom photoshopped eTicket/reservation.

But this is for fun. After this week, we'll get back to building Sweetness http://www.sweetnessapp.com

Nonetheless, would love to hear any ideas for how we can take this to the next level for 4/1/2016.

edge17 11 years ago |

this has the potential for some awesome april fools jokes. how does it get personalized though?

sshah1983 11 years ago | |

A couple ways.

First, you get to record a video greeting card as part of the flow. This allows you to really sell your recipient/victim on the prank.

Second, we make sure that all the info is customized and specific to the recipient. If you order the airline ticket prank for example, we'll email you to get your frequent flyer numbers and stuff and make sure that we get the right legal names on the fake eTicket.

We tested it out on our wives last week. It...was...hilarious.

hongquan 11 years ago | | |

Your wives must be angels. #startupspouse

sidviswanathan 11 years ago | | |

I tried this on my wife last week when we were testing the idea. She definitely fell for it, so she's not too happy with me at the moment. Had to beta test it on someone...