The Breakup Shop

No

This is one of the most insensitive things I've seen for a while, tech, and SaaS is great for so many things. This is not one of them.

@ryanhoover - When is the down vote coming? Any chance you can build it just for this particular post?

and then the person being dumped can use Shyp to send you back your stuff, and Instacart to order a tub of ice cream to go with their sad movie marathon on Netflix. Aren't startups great?

Booooo.

SURELY this is satire.

It's kind of amazing that they'll charge you $10 for a breakup text. This is already the generally-accepted lowest form of severing a personal relationship. People will pay money to stoop even lower? Beyond just the ethical qualms this obviously triggers, there are practical ones: if you received a letter or text from this service, would you be likely to believe it? I'd like to see data about the % of cases in which the breakee becomes enraged and forces a confrontation with the breaker (ethnographic data would also be interesting - I can envision situations where the confrontation is an order of magnitude worse than the one the breaker was trying, cowardly, to avoid in the first place). How do they ensure that the person who contracts services is in fact in the relationship they claim to be? There's a lot of room here for cruel practical jokes and fodder for terrible romantic comedies.