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Show HN: Playbook - Share your hookups with your bros (at PennApps)

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Re: Show HN: Playbook - Share your hookups with your bros (at PennApps)

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Is this a fucking joke? Who needs this? This is not only classless, but from a purely objective standpoint, who would actually use this thing? With your target demographic in mind, it seems to me like it will turn into the greasiest, skeeziest, cesspool on the entire internet in no time.

Just broke 100 signups.

Re: Show HN: Playbook - Share your hookups with your bros (at PennApps)

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post #19

Is this a fucking joke? Who needs this? This is not only classless, but from a purely objective standpoint, who would actually use this thing? With your target demographic in mind, it seems to me like it will turn into the greasiest, skeeziest, cesspool on the entire internet in no time.

Children who haven't learned to comport themselves with the baseline dignity necessary to live in adult society.

Re: Show HN: Playbook - Share your hookups with your bros (at PennApps)

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How will you monetize this??

This one is an app at this point; not a business, but we will be looking at doing different things. Currently, instead of liking a friend's "play" or hookup, you can buy them a beer from a local microbrewery to get delivered to their door!

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Re: Show HN: Playbook - Share your hookups with your bros (at PennApps)

#25
I think if you have something that is "Show HN" there should be more to see than just a landing page. I'd like to see how you built it, what it looks like, something more than just "enter your email address and we'll notify you when it's available."

Re: Show HN: Playbook - Share your hookups with your bros (at PennApps)

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This is extremely disrespectful to women. They aren't objects.

Guys are already talking to each other about the girls they hookup with -- we just made the process more digital and secure.

Just because people are already doing some sort of negative and disrespectful thing, that doesn't make it alright to build a tool to actively encourage people to continue doing it.

Re: Show HN: Playbook - Share your hookups with your bros (at PennApps)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It that is true, you are in an abusive relationship. Leave.

I think that the US is just really afraid to talk openly about our relationships with other people.

I agree with you completely. The problem is that I don't think the behavior you're encouraging solves that.

Talking about hookups is almost always about objectification: it's encouraging people to talk openly about relationships, yes, but relationships between people and objects of sexual gratification rather than between actual mature adults.

Re: Show HN: Playbook - Share your hookups with your bros (at PennApps)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It that is true, you are in an abusive relationship. Leave.

I think that the US is just really afraid to talk openly about our relationships with other people.

I think that the US is just really afraid to stop using the word "literally" incorrectly.

(yes, I know they changed the definition. I pretend it never happened!)

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