Another group of smirking techbros have decided that rich people shouldn't have to follow the same rules as the poors. There's an app for that.

LineLeap, backed by Y Combinator, lets people pay to skip lines at bars.

LineLeap makes money by charging Ticketmaster-style convenience fees for certain passes. The company also imposes fees for "newfound revenue" on venues -- that is, revenue that the venues weren't generating beforehand, such as sales of skip-the-line passes.

I guess it's ok for the poors to attend the venues these guys want to go to, as long as they know their place and don't get in the way of their betters.

Look at how "down to earth" they are:

The co-founders slept in beat-up motels -- and their cars -- traveling the country to sell to venues, sneaking into YMCAs for quick showers when they could.

Oh, tell me more about these "beat up" motels, and YMCAs that you defrauded. How cheeky! I guarantee that the people working at those places work harder in a day than these fratboys have in their lives.

But of course the whole thing really just another surveillance play, selling your personal information and buying habits to the highest bidder:

I asked Schauff about LineLeap's data retention policy, including how long the company stores user data and whether users can delete their data at any time. He declined to answer in detail, instead referring me to the terms of use on the LineLeap website.

The terms, concerningly, don't give a firm data retention time frame, and say that LineLeap may be "unable to fully delete or de-identify" user data due to "technical" or "other operational reasons."

Any time someone in tech says "disrupt", you should hear "pillage and ruin".

Just two months ago it was "2Night" trying to sell clubs' security cameras back to them. These things come back like weeds. Remember "SceneTap", a "Where the ladies at?" surveillance app that was going to "change the way the bar industry runs"? How did that work out. To it's credit, it was slightly less vile than its predecessor, "Girls Around Me".

You probably guessed that LineLeap was actually a surveillance play when you saw the words "Y Combinator", the investment firm run by noted fascist lunatic and stochastic terrorist Garry Tan, who recently told SF supervisors to "die slow", and who unleashed a mob of his fanboys to threaten them at their homes.

He's also buddies with noted vampire and fascist Peter Thiel, as well as literal-Brownshirt aspirant Balaji Srinivasan, and they and their TESCREAL buddies recently had a "fireside chat" talking about their vision for turning SF into a Christofascist ethnostate, so that's cool too.

A reminder that every time you click on a link to "Hacker" "News", this is what you are supporting.

Bring on the Doom Loop.