Show HN: Programmatically sent 42k snapchats, created a social contest

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Post by jsingh » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 4:14 PM UTC

Show HN: Programmatically sent 42k snapchats, created a social contest
ranker.io

Re: Show HN: Programmatically sent 42k snapchats, created a social contest

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Post by jsingh » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 4:18 PM UTC

For API Hack Day in San Francisco (https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/api-hackday-sf-2013/...), we created ranker.io (http://ranker.io).

A bot named 'epicchallenge' programmatically sends a snapchat video about a "smile" contest to a huge (42k) list of users. Then we programmatically get their responses and have people vote on them.

Re: Show HN: Programmatically sent 42k snapchats, created a social contest

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Post by sejje » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 4:37 PM UTC

You broke "back" functionality with alt+left arrow.

Re: Show HN: Programmatically sent 42k snapchats, created a social contest

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Post by DanBC » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 4:44 PM UTC

jsingh wrote: post #2

For API Hack Day in San Francisco ( https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/api-hackday-sf-2013/... ), we created ranker.io ( http://ranker.io ). A bot named 'epicchallenge' programmatically sends a snapchat video about a "smile" contest to a huge (42k) list of users. Then we programmatically get their responses and have people vote on them.

How do you get the 42k list of users?

Looks like a fun idea!

Re: Show HN: Programmatically sent 42k snapchats, created a social contest

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 4:46 PM UTC

DanBC wrote: post #4

jsingh wrote: post #2

For API Hack Day in San Francisco ( https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/api-hackday-sf-2013/... ), we created ranker.io ( http://ranker.io ). A bot named 'epicchallenge' programmatically sends a snapchat video about a "smile" contest to a huge (42k) list of users. Then we programmatically get their responses and have people vote on them.

How do you get the 42k list of users? Looks like a fun idea!

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Re: Show HN: Programmatically sent 42k snapchats, created a social contest

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Post by z0a » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 4:51 PM UTC

How did you go about sending/receiving all those snapchats programmatically?

Re: Show HN: Programmatically sent 42k snapchats, created a social contest

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Post by vivpan » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 4:55 PM UTC

z0a wrote: post #6

How did you go about sending/receiving all those snapchats programmatically?

Hi! I'm part of the Ranker.io team. We use the same endpoints that the Android and iOS apps do.

Re: Show HN: Programmatically sent 42k snapchats, created a social contest

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Post by mosselman » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 5:41 PM UTC

I don't get it. What is this? Could you explain this a bit better so I know why it is so special?

Re: Show HN: Programmatically sent 42k snapchats, created a social contest

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Post by kmicklas » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 5:45 PM UTC

So this is that obnoxious friend request I got...

Re: Show HN: Programmatically sent 42k snapchats, created a social contest

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Post by BinRoo » Wed, Jun 26, 2013, 5:45 PM UTC

mosselman wrote: post #8

I don't get it. What is this? Could you explain this a bit better so I know why it is so special?

Hi, I'm part of the Ranker.io team.

We basically built something on top of Snapchat, which is a relatively-new social photo sharing app with no API for developers. So we made our own APIs and made Ranker.io work :)