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Re: Show HN: I built an app that scans every social media network for your username

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Post by rkagerer »

Ostatnigrosh wrote: post #2

I found myself scrolling through Github’s “trending” repos, looking for some coding inspiration. Within the next hour, I stumbled across something called The Sherlock Project. Interesting, It had over 35k stars, must be pretty popular. I quickly cloned the repo and started toying around with it. It didn’t take me long to realize the power of this tool. All I had to do was insert a username, and voila! I was looking a…

You need a privacy policy (or at least a one-liner statement) that gives potential users some assurance you aren't harvesting their username / IP / etc or the results for some other purpose or piping it to advertisers.

Re: Show HN: I built an app that scans every social media network for your username

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Post by Ostatnigrosh »

rkagerer wrote: post #11
Ostatnigrosh wrote: post #2

I found myself scrolling through Github’s “trending” repos, looking for some coding inspiration. Within the next hour, I stumbled across something called The Sherlock Project. Interesting, It had over 35k stars, must be pretty popular. I quickly cloned the repo and started toying around with it. It didn’t take me long to realize the power of this tool. All I had to do was insert a username, and voila! I was looking a…

You need a privacy policy (or at least a one-liner statement) that gives potential users some assurance you aren't harvesting their username / IP / etc or the results for some other purpose or piping it to advertisers.

Havent really thought of that. Ill take a look

Re: Show HN: I built an app that scans every social media network for your username

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Post by A4ET8a8uTh0 »

rkagerer wrote: post #11
Ostatnigrosh wrote: post #2

I found myself scrolling through Github’s “trending” repos, looking for some coding inspiration. Within the next hour, I stumbled across something called The Sherlock Project. Interesting, It had over 35k stars, must be pretty popular. I quickly cloned the repo and started toying around with it. It didn’t take me long to realize the power of this tool. All I had to do was insert a username, and voila! I was looking a…

You need a privacy policy (or at least a one-liner statement) that gives potential users some assurance you aren't harvesting their username / IP / etc or the results for some other purpose or piping it to advertisers.

Yep. The wrap around the tool is neat and looks well done based on what I could see, but I hesitated based just that consideration.

edit: I thought I should make my feedback less generic. In this case, by neat I mean: no fluff, no useless stuff on the landing page, straight to the point. I appreciate that.

Re: Show HN: I built an app that scans every social media network for your username

#16

Post by xeromal »

JacobThreeThree wrote: post #14
xeromal wrote: post #13

Be warned people. You might find accounts you don't remember making. lmao A trip down memory lane.

The only username you should use more than once is your real name.

I was 12-18 years old so I wasn't really thinking that way.

Re: Show HN: I built an app that scans every social media network for your username

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Post by nop_slide »

You should also mention you are using Sherlock as the underlying backend which does that actual searching as you did in this post.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/z1ts1n/i_built_an_a...

S̵h̵e̵r̵l̵o̵c̵k̵ ̵u̵s̵e̵s̵ ̵M̵I̵T̵ ̵l̵i̵c̵e̵n̵s̵e̵ ̵a̵n̵d̵ ̵y̵o̵u̵ ̵s̵t̵i̵l̵l̵ ̵h̵a̵v̵e̵n̵'̵t̵ ̵a̵d̵d̵e̵d̵ ̵M̵I̵T̵ ̵l̵i̵c̵e̵n̵s̵e̵ ̵t̵o̵ ̵y̵o̵u̵r̵ ̵r̵e̵p̵o̵.̵

https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock

https://github.com/bnkc/handlefinder

With that said, I like the look of the UI you put on top, great work!

Edit: As others have pointed out, the author doesn't need to make their creation MIT as well. I misunderstood the license agreement. They just have to include the notice of the dependencies somewhere. TIL.

Re: Show HN: I built an app that scans every social media network for your username

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Post by timeon »

JacobThreeThree wrote: post #14
xeromal wrote: post #13

Be warned people. You might find accounts you don't remember making. lmao A trip down memory lane.

The only username you should use more than once is your real name.

You shouldn't use your real name on the internet.
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