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Silicon Valley well known of developing some crazy apps, but the highly rumored app, "Uber for dog poop" is not one of them, it is said to be an art project and not a real business.
Last week information of the new "Uber for puppy poop" app called pooper was widely shared across the net. The application's website, complete with expert promo video clip, promises on-demand pickup of your furball's excrement for a small month to month payment. The website highlighted that all one would have to do is snap a picture of Fido's filthy business and someone in a Prius would arrive and collect it for you, Global Advisors reported.
It sounded like Silicon Valley, the home to hundreds of start-up and global technology companies had ultimately absent off the rails. The app sounded potentially a minimal illegal and illegal. It sounded fake which is due to the fact it was.
Despite of the appearances in the "Washington Article," "The Everyday Dot," "The Next Web" and various radio and chat shows, the app is really an "art project" created by Elliot Glass and Ben Becker.
Becker said that the project is actually a piece of art that is satirizing the app-obsessed planet. To be specific, "the rising reliance on the gig-centered financial system to do things for us humans that we could simply for ourselves," Becker added.
Becker is a creative director in marketing while Glass runs a boutique creative studio in Los Angeles that does branding, freelance video clip production and net development. The two created the web-site which they say they have gotten between 30,000-40,000 hits as a result of the app.
According to TECHninja, two pranksters generated the company's promo video clip on their very own with the aid of pals Louis Stephens and Evan Koga at Pacific Sound Dwelling to help with a customized soundtrack for the video clip.
"Our target was to create as convincing a planet close to the merchandise as feasible," says Glass. He also added that, the idea was intended not just to create a web-site, but craft a branding offer and plan a user interface that was all variety of within this aesthetic that would come to feel plausible in the present Silicon Valley."
The video clip was deliberately lighthearted, due to the fact the creators figured that if somebody was really launching a poop-scooping business they would possible do their ideal to embrace the levity of their products operate as nicely.
Pooper is the first undertaking in a greater collection of tasks Becker and Glass strategy to make.
Watch a video of the Pooper app here:
