Polsia raised $30M; source map: fake ARR, dead users, god-mode over your company

not-chatgpt

Full thread with the receipts: https://xcancel.com/NotOnKetamine/status/2058310362647371956

ungreased0675

This is crypto scams all over again.

bstsb

the Claude-produced website alongside its excessive hyperbole makes me much less likely to believe this “expose”, even if there is an element of truth to it. if you want to call out a company for being “AI slop”, don’t vibe code a website to do so. to be fair, the fact they show precise revenue data through their public API is interesting: https://polsia.com/api/public/live/dashboard

miohtama

The company name is aislop in reverse. Because it reads like parody, it is likely parody. It would be sad if smart people on Hacker News fall for this, not to mention AI hating journalists and bloggers. But let's give the VCs of the round the benefit of doubt, and hope the raise is tied to KPIs and long term value creation.

sikozu

This has to be a parody, and I will believe that it is until somebody can provide evidence that it isn't.

wxw

Please for the love of god stop with the AI designed websites. Hand-authored system default HTML with 5 lines of CSS for formatting would be just fine.

puttycat

My eyes, my eyes! (closed the tab after 4 seconds)

themgt

https://polsia.com/live Seems like you can ask Polsia about Polsia. The zero-arr.vercel.app AI investigative journalist interviewing Polsia could be this generation's Frost/Nixon.