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Re: Show HN: CollabFinder, find developers and designers for your next great project

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Post by sahadeva »

mrsteveman1 wrote: post #6

I don't think Facebook logins are a good way to handle user registration for something like this, perhaps I'm in the minority but I don't even have a Facebook account anymore (on purpose). I don't think it's a good idea to pull Facebook friends from their API for this purpose either, are you actually processing those or is it client side?

We are processing the connections so we can show you friends of friends on the site. The thought being that it's much easier to start chatting with someone if you know you have friends in common. If you do signup you can sort everyone on the site by how many mutual friends you have, which is pretty amazing.

Using Facebook also allows us to protect against spammers, recruiters, etc., and we can make filling out your profile easier (though we still have work to do there).

What alternative site would you want to be able to sign up with? Github? Twitter?

Thanks for the feedback.

Re: Show HN: CollabFinder, find developers and designers for your next great project

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Post by SpaceDragon »

sahadeva wrote: post #11
mrsteveman1 wrote: post #6

I don't think Facebook logins are a good way to handle user registration for something like this, perhaps I'm in the minority but I don't even have a Facebook account anymore (on purpose). I don't think it's a good idea to pull Facebook friends from their API for this purpose either, are you actually processing those or is it client side?

We are processing the connections so we can show you friends of friends on the site. The thought being that it's much easier to start chatting with someone if you know you have friends in common. If you do signup you can sort everyone on the site by how many mutual friends you have, which is pretty amazing. Using Facebook also allows us to protect against spammers, recruiters, etc., and we can make filling out your p…

I'd like to chime in by saying I'm interested in using the service, but recently quit Facebook like a bad habit and have no intentions of ever going back.

By making registration as Facebook only, you may be excluding some of the best people.

Re: Show HN: CollabFinder, find developers and designers for your next great project

#14

Post by bantic »

sahadeva wrote: post #2

CollabFinder is a network of geeks like you looking for collaborators. No recruiters. No MBAs. It's the place to go when you're looking for someone to help you with your next big idea. Browse developers, designers, illustrators and writers by skill, interest, location and how many friends you have in common. Then chat with anyone with one click. And if you're looking to do a new startup tag yourself with "Y Combinato…

I love the idea of making it easier for people to find one another to collab on things. How will you keep out recruiters, though? Seems like they always end up on these things and start increasing the noise.

Re: Show HN: CollabFinder, find developers and designers for your next great project

#17

Post by iusable »

sahadeva wrote: post #11
mrsteveman1 wrote: post #6

I don't think Facebook logins are a good way to handle user registration for something like this, perhaps I'm in the minority but I don't even have a Facebook account anymore (on purpose). I don't think it's a good idea to pull Facebook friends from their API for this purpose either, are you actually processing those or is it client side?

We are processing the connections so we can show you friends of friends on the site. The thought being that it's much easier to start chatting with someone if you know you have friends in common. If you do signup you can sort everyone on the site by how many mutual friends you have, which is pretty amazing. Using Facebook also allows us to protect against spammers, recruiters, etc., and we can make filling out your p…

Agree with most here. New baseline for such communities is

- Email/Pass - FB - Twitter - Google

For your specific community, I would consider the following as well

- Tumblr (designers!) - GitHub - (& maybe even) Dribbble

Re: Show HN: CollabFinder, find developers and designers for your next great project

#18

Post by sahadeva »

iDhruvKumar wrote: post #10
iDhruvKumar wrote: post #5

Can't access the website, It's saying Database Error... And the only way to sign up is via Facebook? I am a Developer, But i am not a Facebook user, Having different/normal way to signup will be good.

I guess i am the only one who can't Login and i see the database error only when i am logged in.. Can you check it out, It's on line number 150 (/ap...../..ls../facebook_member.php)

Sorry about that! We're looking into the bug and should have it fixed up asap...

Re: Show HN: CollabFinder, find developers and designers for your next great project

#19

Post by Lukeas14 »

sahadeva wrote: post #15
Lukeas14 wrote: post #12

As a developer/designer looking for a marketing/business person I feel left out.

We'll be adding more skillsets in the future - thanks for the feedback. Anything else you like / don't like?

I would like to see design samples in the same way that you show code samples. And the "see who you both know" functionality might work better with linkedin than facebook. What would be really nice is if you could tap into meetup.com so you could see the backgrounds of people you're about to be at an event with. Other than that I love the idea and your execution of it.

Re: Show HN: CollabFinder, find developers and designers for your next great project

#20

Post by sahadeva »

bantic wrote: post #14
sahadeva wrote: post #2

CollabFinder is a network of geeks like you looking for collaborators. No recruiters. No MBAs. It's the place to go when you're looking for someone to help you with your next big idea. Browse developers, designers, illustrators and writers by skill, interest, location and how many friends you have in common. Then chat with anyone with one click. And if you're looking to do a new startup tag yourself with "Y Combinato…

I love the idea of making it easier for people to find one another to collab on things. How will you keep out recruiters, though? Seems like they always end up on these things and start increasing the noise.

Stopping recruiters from messing with people on the site is one of the big reasons we use Facebook - we can block anyone who abuses the system easily, and potentially block the companies using those recruiters. If we make the stakes high for companies abusing people through reckless recruiters hopefully we can change how companies think twice about hiring them. We also built in some simple triggers to make reporting abuse super easy, and we monitor how people are using the system closely. Hopefully in the future we can watch for suspicious behavior patterns based on what we learn.

Thanks for asking :)

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