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Our Mission

The Rocket Advocate exists to chronicle the spectacular rise (and occasional spectacular failures) of Queensland's tech scene through a unique blend of satirical news, almost-plausible headlines, and the occasional piece of actual journalism that slips through our rigorous "is this funny enough?" editorial process.

Our dedicated team of "journalists" work tirelessly from their laptops at various cafés, pretending those four hours of typing while nursing a single cold brew constitutes a full workday. We're committed to bringing you the stories that matter most to the tech community, from "Local Founder Claims Blockchain Will Revolutionise Cattle Mustering" to "VC Firm Invests $5 Million in App That's 'Like Uber, But For Kangaroos'."

Our Team

The Rocket Advocate is proudly staffed by former tech workers who couldn't code their way out of a paper bag but can craft a mean press release about "disrupting the disruptors." Our editorial board consists primarily of people who were rejected from actual newspapers and found that making things up is considerably easier than fact-checking.

Our Editor-in-Chief is none other than Fee Barry, a venture capitalist who made her fortune by investing early in what she describes as "that app that does the thing everyone uses now." After a decade of listening to pitch decks that promised to change the world but mostly just changed her patience levels, Fee decided that critiquing startups would be just as fun as funding them. She now splits her time between telling founders their ideas aren't scalable enough and writing scathing editorials about those same founders once they prove her wrong.

Our Coverage

We cover the stories that matter most to Queensland's tech community:

• Startups that are "pre-revenue" (and likely to stay that way)

• VC funding rounds where everyone pretends to understand the valuation

• The tragic plight of engineers forced to attend networking events

• The ongoing debate about whether "innovation hub" is just fancy talk for "office with a ping pong table"

• The sixth pivot of that one startup everyone thought would fail after the fifth pivot

Our Promise

The Rocket Advocate promises to bring you tech news with a healthy dose of skepticism, a splash of cynicism, and just enough truth to make you wonder if we're actually onto something. We pledge to never take the tech industry too seriously, because let's be honest—nobody with a "Chief Happiness Officer" deserves to be taken seriously.

We're not afraid to ask the tough questions, like "Is that actually AI, or just an if/else statement with good marketing?" and "Did that founder really 'bootstrap' their company, or did their parents just buy them a house in Rocket?"

Whether you're a hopeful founder, a jaded developer, or a VC looking to throw money at something that will inevitably be described as "the Airbnb of [insert literally anything here]," The Rocket Advocate is your essential guide to Queensland's tech scene—where the unicorns roam free and the funding flows like beer at a startup launch party.

Welcome to Rocket: where the internet is surprisingly fast, the ambitions are unreasonably high, and everyone you meet is working on something that's "in stealth mode" (which is code for "I haven't figured out what it does yet").

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