It’s amazing there are still things you don’t know about Anna Delvey. Like, who was the fake socialite’s real-life boyfriend? In “Inventing Anna,” he’s called Chase Sikorski and is a tech dude creating an app. As is often with tech start-ups, what the app does is a little hazy. Sikorski’s Wake app supposedly “records your dreams.” As Parade notes, it’s an uncanny parallel with Hunter Lee Soik, another tech dude with an app that he talks about but never gets made.
In 2013, Soik launched a Kickstarter for Shadow — an app that records your dreams — and raised $82,577. The New Yorker ran a profile of the Korean-born tech dude. Soik was adopted at two and a half and moved to the U.S. He dreamed of being a pro skateboarder but settled on studying photography. Soik quit the Brooks Institute after three days. However, he was scouted by a talent rep, starred in a Coke ad, and launched a production company. Next, he developed apps for Stella McCartney before the idea for Shadow hit after working with Kanye West and Jay-Z.
Soik said he learned about dream psychoanalysis from “Freud and Jung, and Allan Hobson.” Then he whipped up a web page asking people to “sign up” if they dug the app concept. “Two hundred and fifty thousand people visited within four weeks,” he claimed. “Thirty thousand said they would take part.” As of August 2022, the app still hasn’t materialized, leading many backers to leave angry comments on Kickstarter.
