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Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS

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Re: Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS

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Post by samstave »

Johngibb wrote: post #48

Jesus, I just got like 2 dozen texts all at once before #pause worked. Thanks, I love paying for my texts. It should NOT start until you text #play, as it seemed like it would.

This points more to the flaw in the SMS plans than it does for his service.

Who the hell doesn't put unlimited sms on their plans these days - its my primary form of communication!

Re: Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS

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Post by hnriot »

rsamvit wrote: post #10
ninetax wrote: post #8

Could you be more clear about what exactly you will tell these "people I want to meet" about me? Also, please clarify some parts of your privacy policy We may collect the following information when your register on or fill out a form on our site, HubChilla: 3. Other information relevant to our surveys or offers Such as?

We tell all people three Pieces of Information: 1. Your Gender 2. Your Age 3. Your location (City, State) Thats all! Everything else is private.

"and both go to UC Berkeley", this is in the example conversation.

Re: Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS

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Post by bherms »

derrida wrote: post #60
bherms wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1) They only get access to the information you authorize them. 2) If this isn't enough control, there are chrome & firefox extensions to give you more granular control over the authorizations you allow, though disallowing certain things can cause issues sometimes.

What about if you don't have a Facebook account?

Then you don't sign up... Startups aren't obligated to give us everything we want and they certainly don't owe us anything. I personally don't like signing up for services using my email and I don't like signing up using Facebook... However, I don't expect startups to cater to everyone with a non-majority preference. Either I make some sort of sacrifice to use their free service, or I don't use their free service.

Re: Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS

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Post by Axsuul »

ritikm wrote: post #52
Axsuul wrote: post #22

How long did it take to build this? Fun idea!

Friday 7/27/12 morning - thought of the idea, briefly talked about the features and did a basic spec Friday 7/27/12 evening - started coding the backend text message routing logic and the website front (standard stuff - Node.js, custom MVC framework, Twilio API, MongoDB, Redis, Heroku, etc. - the works) Tuesday 76/31/12 late night - Feature complete, things are all good to go and working (including edge cases, etc.)…

Nice, thanks for the play by play! And I'm assuming you mean 7/27/12 morning? =p

Are you guys by any chance from ASU? Been meeting a lot of people from ASU :)

Re: Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS

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Post by kurokonaa »

ghostfish wrote: post #4

Facebook login only? This is a disturbing trend I'm noticing with a number of new websites/services. I don't think I'm alone in saying I don't like allowing apps access to all of my Facebook data and timeline. I won't use anything that only takes a Facebook login. Any plans for a stand alone login or is the Facebook data necessary for matching you up with people to chat with?

Also, some people don't have Facebook's, myself included. I hope the "Facebook login only" doesn't become a standard.
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