Bio Cringe – The Obnoxious Social Media Bio Generator
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·March 16, 2025mcsniff
throwaway150
I don't see why this would be considered cringe. The author created a fun project, shared it with us as open-source and is simply asking for voluntary donations, only if you're willing to contribute. No one is forcing you to donate.
If an aspiring developer cannot create fun projects and look for some support within the hacker community, what are we all even doing here?
baxtr
The poster's HN bio:
Founder of How About This? Group – a creative business collective where every idea finds a home.
Lover of absurd ideas, open-source projects, and unconventional e-commerce. Theme park obsessive. Always experimenting.
thih9
All bios are short with two emojis. Is this project picking a random text from hardcoded LLM output?
https://github.com/LukeDunsMoto/BioCringe/blob/4d554d2bcc772...
cglong
Congrats on shipping! Should this be a Show HN? https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
thih9
> This site uses cookies. Not the tasty kind, just the ones that make the internet work. Deal with it?
Nope, there should be a “reject non essential cookies” button as well if the site is being served in the eu.
Or don’t use non essential cookies. Trackers used on the website and their cookies are not essential.
flufluflufluffy
I was expecting influencer satire but it’s just tech/finance bro digs. fun idea but there should be more types of cringe
moandcompany
I didn't see Founder, Angel-Investor, growth-hacker, ex-Google Tech Lead in the samples...
theideaofcoffee
Love it. We just need to add pipes/bars | between | things | because we’ve done so much. Don’t forget “ex-stupid company, ex-failed company” and etc. for added cringe!
lifestyleguru
BTW What's up with people turning coaches and offering everyone to schedule a video call with them? I encounter this even in circle of my LinkedIn contacts. Is there some new pill on the market they all coincidentally take?
dylan604
With a user name like yours, I’d expect you to understand FOMO of missing out on new trends or pushing new trends while posting as a thought leader. And of course it’s noticeable on LinkedIn. It’s nothing but a cesspool of those exact types
lifestyleguru
Actually it's quite old user name and I recall now how I got an idea for it, haha.
squigz
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
LukeDunsMoto
Hey Guys,
I've been tinkering and practising my coding skills (for want of a better word) for a while and decided to release a fun little project I've been working on - Bio Cringe.
Ever read a 'hacktivist growth mindset guru' bio on LinkedIn that made your soul leave your body? How about a '24/7 experimental thought guru' Twitter bio that made you want to smash your face into your keyboard? Bio Cringe has it all - and based on the level of obnoxiousness you choose it will generate a bio for you so lacking in self-awareness and reality that Elon Musk would blush.
Purely for fun, purely satirical, but I hope you guys get a laugh out of it.
bckr
This is fun. Some feedback:
- I didn’t notice that much difference between the levels of obnoxiousness. Essentially the higher levels seemed to be more confident but contain the same ideas.
- All of them are very short, which means there’s also not a lot of variety.
- it seems like the two topics in the generation prompt are “future riches” and “currently broke”. A greater diversity would be lovely. Spiritual BS, dating gurus, crypto, impossible startup ideas… these are a few obnoxious things I’d like to see.
Thanks and congrats on front page
airstrike
I would add that most of these feel like a setup and a punchline, but the two parts are styled the same and show up immediately
if I were building this I might experiment with showing them separately so you can fully appreciate the recognizable first bit
"Life coach :yoga:"
...
"if my own counts"
with the punchline following. There's a bit of a pause that's missing in the delivery, though I'm not sure how to convey that pause in such a simple format
forgotTheLast
I think the #installation section of the README needs to be updated.
https://github.com/LukeDunsMoto/BioCringe?tab=readme-ov-file...
Either that or the python file and its requirements.txt are missing
I hope it is not lost on the author how cringe "Buy Me a Coffee" on a page like this is.