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Show HN: InstaLove – Tinder on Autopilot

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Re: Show HN: InstaLove – Tinder on Autopilot

#21
"Recently, we decided to take a crack at one of life’s most perennial problem: finding love."

The solution makes me sad and frustrated.

I bet someday someone thinks it's a good idea to create a daemon bot to represents us in virtual dating world, and start relationship simulations, so that we need not bother.

Re: Show HN: InstaLove – Tinder on Autopilot

#25
I've never used Tinder, but I've had multiple men tell me they swipe right (I think? whichever is "yes") on every women, and multiple women tell me the response rate from men who have swiped right on them is very low.

That doesn't sound like a very good system to me...

Re: Show HN: InstaLove – Tinder on Autopilot

#26
Since I'm currently in a relationship I have not looked at Tinder. Is it exclusively picture based? Since I'm blind I actually had to read dating profiles and determine if someone was interesting and deal with the looks portion if I got a reply. I could see this being useful for me but I could also getting a bunch of hits on people I have no interest in.

Re: Show HN: InstaLove – Tinder on Autopilot

#27

Just because you can hack another app doesn't mean you should. You're just enabling another form of spam. There are more interesting things you can work on. Don't be that guy.

Just having some fun. One of our out of state interns was playing on tinder (doesn't really know anyone around here) after a long day of work and we thought it might be fun to see if we could automate the process. No harm intended; just blowing off steam.

Re: Show HN: InstaLove – Tinder on Autopilot

#28
post #26

Since I'm currently in a relationship I have not looked at Tinder. Is it exclusively picture based? Since I'm blind I actually had to read dating profiles and determine if someone was interesting and deal with the looks portion if I got a reply. I could see this being useful for me but I could also getting a bunch of hits on people I have no interest in.

Basically yes. There is a "tagline" section, but the point of the app is to find people you think are attractive.

Re: Show HN: InstaLove – Tinder on Autopilot

#29
post #27

Just because you can hack another app doesn't mean you should. You're just enabling another form of spam. There are more interesting things you can work on. Don't be that guy.

Just having some fun. One of our out of state interns was playing on tinder (doesn't really know anyone around here) after a long day of work and we thought it might be fun to see if we could automate the process. No harm intended; just blowing off steam.

It was also a bit of a teaching moment. I was trying to show our intern how to use http://www.cycript.org/ for fun at night and he happened to have the Tinder app open. We love hacking things.

Re: Show HN: InstaLove – Tinder on Autopilot

#30
post #3

I made the same in a 10-line Python script the other day and I am running it on my machine. I obtained access_token from Tinder API using mitmproxy. So it works quite well without installing Cydia or another app to my phone.

Hook it up to a chat bot and BAM, hundreds of thousands of dates lined up in less than 24 hours.

Efficiency!

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