<story><title>Pizza Compass</title><url>http://pizza-compass.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pkulak</author><text>Haha, it&apos;s so funny! Oh, and look at all this money in iTunes Connect...&lt;p&gt;Yes, totally just a joke!</text></item><item><author>princess3000</author><text>This is really overthinking it, IMO. This app isn&apos;t a shot at Yelp or an attempt to disrupt the pizza space... It&apos;s a joke. You pay a dollar, you get a pizza compass. I think it&apos;s hilarious.&lt;p&gt;The quotes on their page about &quot;life-affirming&quot; and &quot;some people might say this is the most important app... ever&quot; tell me that whoever made this app just wanted to have a bit of a laugh.</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>OK, I haven&apos;t had time to download the app, but was curious about the description&lt;p&gt;&amp;#62; &lt;i&gt;PIZZA COMPASS IS THE EXCITING NEW LIFE-AFFIRMING IPHONE APP THAT HELPS PIZZA GET TO YOUR MOUTH. CREATED BY A HIGHLY SPECIALIZED TRAINED TEAM OF PIZZA EXPERTS. EXPERTS WHO ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT LIFE, LOVE, AND FRIENDSHIP.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The screenshots featured famous pizzerias...so is the data &quot;curated&quot; by the pizza-compass staff? Or does it rely on other APIs, such as Foursquare? In other words, is it similar to other locations (Google, Yelp, etc) services out there, except filtered by Pizza?&lt;p&gt;Cool design concept...but is it really a serious effort at an app/startup (i.e. there&apos;s a press kit, accounts for the pizza-compass domain)? The use case is pretty limited...that is, limited to the times when you want just pizza and are in an unfamiliar neighborhood. This is not a scenario that I&apos;ve found myself in...I either eat cheap pizza as part of a routine at a place near work, or know exactly the fancy-pants pizzeria that I want to go to dinner for. Unless there&apos;s a lot of custom or well-aggregated data specific to pizza (such as, what kind of pizzas are there, price per slice, etc), it&apos;s probably not an app that I would ever use habitually.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>saraid216</author><text>I&apos;m pretty sure the entire industry of stand-up comedians are laughing with you.</text></comment>
<story><title>Pizza Compass</title><url>http://pizza-compass.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pkulak</author><text>Haha, it&apos;s so funny! Oh, and look at all this money in iTunes Connect...&lt;p&gt;Yes, totally just a joke!</text></item><item><author>princess3000</author><text>This is really overthinking it, IMO. This app isn&apos;t a shot at Yelp or an attempt to disrupt the pizza space... It&apos;s a joke. You pay a dollar, you get a pizza compass. I think it&apos;s hilarious.&lt;p&gt;The quotes on their page about &quot;life-affirming&quot; and &quot;some people might say this is the most important app... ever&quot; tell me that whoever made this app just wanted to have a bit of a laugh.</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>OK, I haven&apos;t had time to download the app, but was curious about the description&lt;p&gt;&amp;#62; &lt;i&gt;PIZZA COMPASS IS THE EXCITING NEW LIFE-AFFIRMING IPHONE APP THAT HELPS PIZZA GET TO YOUR MOUTH. CREATED BY A HIGHLY SPECIALIZED TRAINED TEAM OF PIZZA EXPERTS. EXPERTS WHO ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT LIFE, LOVE, AND FRIENDSHIP.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The screenshots featured famous pizzerias...so is the data &quot;curated&quot; by the pizza-compass staff? Or does it rely on other APIs, such as Foursquare? In other words, is it similar to other locations (Google, Yelp, etc) services out there, except filtered by Pizza?&lt;p&gt;Cool design concept...but is it really a serious effort at an app/startup (i.e. there&apos;s a press kit, accounts for the pizza-compass domain)? The use case is pretty limited...that is, limited to the times when you want just pizza and are in an unfamiliar neighborhood. This is not a scenario that I&apos;ve found myself in...I either eat cheap pizza as part of a routine at a place near work, or know exactly the fancy-pants pizzeria that I want to go to dinner for. Unless there&apos;s a lot of custom or well-aggregated data specific to pizza (such as, what kind of pizzas are there, price per slice, etc), it&apos;s probably not an app that I would ever use habitually.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pizza</author><text>Satire can make money, e.g. the Onion</text></comment>