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Re: Show HN: NeedleHunt, a free social graph search engine for people

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Post by jayzalowitz »

mattdeboard wrote: post #29
jayzalowitz wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Odds are you are already in there. If you want I can look you up and email a file back to you with what we have? Our permissions are to improve your search experience. And we got the feedback from today that we need to pair it down, we will be doing that. In the meantime if you want to change the scope in the permissions I wont hold it against you (email and public profile are pretty much needed to make it work)

The best thing to come out of this is that it's an excellent eye opener as to how out there all our information is. The fact that you can say that he's probably in your system already is horrifying and shitty

That is true that developers betray a lot of information about themselves for being as security conscious as they are, perhaps we can team up for a secure your data day?

Re: Show HN: NeedleHunt, a free social graph search engine for people

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Post by mattdeboard »

jayzalowitz wrote: post #31
mattdeboard wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The best thing to come out of this is that it's an excellent eye opener as to how out there all our information is. The fact that you can say that he's probably in your system already is horrifying and shitty

That is true that developers betray a lot of information about themselves for being as security conscious as they are, perhaps we can team up for a secure your data day?

"It's true that farmers don't secure their chicken coops as well as they should, maybe we can team up for a secure your chickens day?" asked the fox, without the slightest hint of irony.

Re: Show HN: NeedleHunt, a free social graph search engine for people

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Post by prawn »

jayzalowitz wrote: post #5
mmanfrin wrote: post #4

That 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…

Why not put this sort of information on the site more prominently? I didn't even see the footer links until I went back to the page to double check.

I don't use Facebook so couldn't make use of your site beyond that.

Re: Show HN: NeedleHunt, a free social graph search engine for people

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Post by jayzalowitz »

prawn wrote: post #33
jayzalowitz wrote: post #5

Earlier 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…

Why not put this sort of information on the site more prominently? I didn't even see the footer links until I went back to the page to double check. I don't use Facebook so couldn't make use of your site beyond that.

We are brainstorming some solutions for this as I type. Understood.

Re: Show HN: NeedleHunt, a free social graph search engine for people

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Post by jayzalowitz »

sytelus wrote: post #35

You have to be crazy to think people will jump on this even after you ask this level of permissions. Landing page doesn't even really make clear what the use case is here. The feedback links pops up email client. Seriously?

People have been signing up for a while, but we understand the point about the permissions, and are going to work on it.

The landing page description is also something we are talking about right now.

Re: Show HN: NeedleHunt, a free social graph search engine for people

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Post by grrowl »

jayzalowitz wrote: post #5
mmanfrin wrote: post #4

That 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…

"Our proprietary database has over 25 million people, including their full social identity"

Instantly I assume you have built your database by harvesting your users' information. You should request the least amount possible, then request more permission later as required or as a exchange ("To view results/this profile, please authorise more permissions" or the like)

Re: Show HN: NeedleHunt, a free social graph search engine for people

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Post by mdaniel »

Ordinarily I wouldn't make such a specific web-dev comment here, but it drives me crazy when sites have an almost 1MB background image. If I can watch your image load, that is not a good usability experience.

I had to beat on my own company for weeks to get them to stop doing that junk, so I feel justified in throwing stones.

Re: Show HN: NeedleHunt, a free social graph search engine for people

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Post by [deleted] »

jayzalowitz wrote: post #5
mmanfrin wrote: post #4

That 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…

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