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Re: Show HN: Crushify.org

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Post by MarkIceberg »

jey wrote: post #9

This used to be extremely common as a naturally viral way to harvest email addresses, the prompt was "put in the email addresses of your crushes". What's your twist that sets it apart from the usual variants? (Sure, building it on top of Facebook could potentially provide some additional benefits, but what are they?)

Well, frankly I wasn't expecting frontpage HN. This was just a sideproject that I was doing to get acquainted with golang. With respect to your concern about email address harvesting, the facebook graph api doesnt not give the app access to friends' email addresses. We only know the emails of the people who sign up, and it's used for notification purposes only. :)

Re: Show HN: Crushify.org

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Post by dnautics »

ojii wrote: post #7
f_salmon wrote: post #5

Props for your effort! What I dislike (not specifically about your project, that is!) is the idea that, as a society, we're incentivized to increasingly hide behind our screens instead of growing some balls an actually live in the "real life". Here, we're talking about dating. The other current topic: how we intend to fight democracy-destroying mass surveillance by (apparently) simply sitting behind our screens.

You could also argue that this project helps society move in a way you prefer. Once you get to "mutual crush" and ideally start dating, my assumption would be that those dates would be in "real life".

most people will still hide behind their screens and not do anything about their crush. I actually had a concept that might solve this problem - in order to 'unlock' more options, you have to go on a date first and exchange passkeys with the other dater.
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