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

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Post by simantel »

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.

So the example on your landing page where the user's school is disclosed is inaccurate?

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

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Post by rsamvit »

voltagex_ wrote: post #29

Any chance of allowing this to be used internationally?

Its in the works! This is definitely something we're going to do, but we decided to perfect our launch in the US first before we start accommodating international phones. Stay tuned!

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

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Post by d0m »

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?

So just don't use it. You're clearly not in the market audience.

This audience loves facebook, uses it every single day and authorize all kind of applications without a single thought about security. Why would they when their password is usually password or 123456.

I understand it may comes as a rant but it's not. If Github would force all developers to use Facebook login, then I would agree with your comment. But for a social app like this?

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

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Post by rsamvit »

obilgic wrote: post #30

"15 people use this app" This is basically chat between hn people. I don't think this is the place to create this kind of user base.

Actually we have hundreds of users chatting, and we're growing fast! Facebook only refreshes its numbers once every 24 hours, so if you check back again later you'll see more updated results.

We've been focusing on several different distribution strategies, and we have a strong user base of college students as well.

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

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Post by dm8 »

Cool idea. Signed up and talking with someone via texts. Couple of features that you should add -

1. Give questions to participants to talk about based on their FB likes or whatever data mining you could do.

2. Multiple people chats - SMS is not real-time medium. So not sure whether other person has read my SMS or not. And I have no idea whether to wait or not. It would be cool to text multiple people at once

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

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Post by veyron »

rsamvit wrote: post #15
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?

Thanks for your feedback! We use facebook login because its the easiest way for us to get the basic data to provide intelligent recommendations. We have plans to roll out a separate stand-alone login soon, where you can fill out a profile with whatever information you choose to include

How are you addressing ... fraudulent information on the FB profile? Automated bots? Trolling pedophiles?

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

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Post by rsamvit »

dm8 wrote: post #37

Cool idea. Signed up and talking with someone via texts. Couple of features that you should add - 1. Give questions to participants to talk about based on their FB likes or whatever data mining you could do. 2. Multiple people chats - SMS is not real-time medium. So not sure whether other person has read my SMS or not. And I have no idea whether to wait or not. It would be cool to text multiple people at once

We agree! We're working on those features and hopefully will be rolling them out soon.
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