I assume that by signing up with possibly the most invasive, OTT privileges I've yet seen for fb then I am added to you database and thus become searchable?
Show HN: NeedleHunt, a free social graph search engine for people
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#12That is a staggering amount of permissions you're asking for without any explanation of what you're offering.
Good point. We will try to lower it + have more information present soon. In the meantime for everyone looking at it: NeedleHunt is the first free social graph search engine for talent. Anyone can use it to search for anyone. Our proprietary database has over 25 million people, including their full social identity. In other words, our system catalogs hundreds of millions of social profiles and consolidates them into…
What is proprietary about your graph search engine? I guess you mean you're licensing someone else's tech?
edit: Wow, huge claims. Hundreds of millions of social media accounts, FULL INFO on 25 million people? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence that doesn't demand I give you such ridiculous, completely irrational permissions on my facebook account.
Everything about this screams "product manager" who is licensing someone else's tech, and is making exaggerated claims to make a quick buck through some angle. Totally slimy feel to this, and the fact you're basically "lol whoops my bad!!" when people bring up the stupid permission request tells me all I need to know.
double edit: btw, you'll "try" to lower it? This was three hours ago you said this.
Re: Show HN: NeedleHunt, a free social graph search engine for people
#13This literally makes me angry.
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#14For anyone wondering, the permissions it requests are:
"Generator Lab will receive the following info: your public profile, friend list, email address, custom friends lists, News Feed, birthday, work history, status updates, education history, current city, photos, website and personal description and your friends' work histories, status updates, education histories, current cities, photos, websites, personal descriptions and likes."
Come on now.
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#15Nice functionality!
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#16Saw the Facebook login as the only interactive option and immediately closed it. Seriously ?
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#17For anyone wondering, the permissions it requests are: "Generator Lab will receive the following info: your public profile, friend list, email address, custom friends lists, News Feed, birthday, work history, status updates, education history, current city, photos, website and personal description and your friends' work histories, status updates, education histories, current cities, photos, websites, personal descrip…
Yeah, we wanted to make sure we could properly let you search your connections, there is a toggle on the top right to do so.
That being said, if you want, change the scope of the request and the site should (i think) still work for you... if you feel the need to do so, drop it down to public profile and email which i think is the bare minimum.
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#18Saw the Facebook login as the only interactive option and immediately closed it. Seriously ?
Yeah, we are working on adding other options, but so many early users wanted to search their friends that we made the decision to do that first.
If you want to make a fake facebook profile to auth with I wont hold it against you.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good point. We will try to lower it + have more information present soon. In the meantime for everyone looking at it: NeedleHunt is the first free social graph search engine for talent. Anyone can use it to search for anyone. Our proprietary database has over 25 million people, including their full social identity. In other words, our system catalogs hundreds of millions of social profiles and consolidates them into…
What is proprietary about your graph search engine? I guess you mean you're licensing someone else's tech? edit: Wow, huge claims. Hundreds of millions of social media accounts, FULL INFO on 25 million people? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence that doesn't demand I give you such ridiculous, completely irrational permissions on my facebook account. Everything about this screams "product manager" who…
No, we built this ourselves and are pretty proud of that.
I don't need your data from facebook man, let me know if you want me to delete your profile and I am more than happy to do so.
P.S. its been a busy day and I want to deploy things the right way, feel free to change scope in the auth.
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#20That is a staggering amount of permissions you're asking for without any explanation of what you're offering.
This. Why do you need the NF permission, status updates permission, photos permission, or all of those for friends? FB platform policy says "Request only the data and publishing permissions your app needs."
Status is for analyze profile and photos permission gives some information about friendship level as well as location.