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Show HN: Crushify.org
- Comkid 13y agohttp://www.downapp.com/ http://www.downapp.com/ There are more examples of apps just like this that came before (this is the only one that comes to mind at the moment), the only way I would be remotely interested is if they figured a way to solve the inherent problem of selecting all/some of your friends as crushes to see who had you as a crush, and then what happens when someone legitimately adds the person who was just checking everyone's crushes.
- rahimnathwani 13y agoI've heard that this is a problem with real-life speed-dating as well.
- matthewrudy 13y agoI guess speed dating is always a conflict between making the most sincere matches, and making sure everyone has fun. If that one person says "yes" to everyone, no doubt their intentions were to game the system, but if they avoid attendees going away thinking "no one liked me", then they've actually benefited the event's success.
- techaddict009 13y agoSeems similar to bang with friends. Except the bang part.
- aegiso 13y agoSolve two nearly insurmountable problems and you have a winner: 1) Make it impossible to game. 2) Chicken and egg. I have no idea how to solve these problems, but it's a concept ripe for disruption if you do.
- MarkIceberg 13y agoIt sure is. Thanks :)
- f_salmon 13y agoProps 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.
- ojii 13y agoYou 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".
- dnautics 13y agomost 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.
- ddorian43 13y agoWhy not limit it to say 3 friends? You can't have a crush on every friend (you might want to bang them, but not crush?)?
- dabito 13y agoI like this idea, but perhaps it'd be better to rate limit to say 1 crush a day
- MarkIceberg 13y agoThanks for the advice. I really don't have any rate limiting features built in at the moment, but I will look into it. :)
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- acjohnson55 13y agoThere might be a negligibly low number of matches with a limit of 3.
- Tycho 13y agoAdds a whole new dimension to 'fraping'.
- jey 13y agoThis 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?)
- MarkIceberg 13y agoWell, 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. :)
- kseistrup 13y agoShowstopper for me: Log in with Facebook
- MarkIceberg 13y agoSorry. There is no other alternative. It cannot be built without access to a social graph. I didn't think of including Twitter because of the user limits.
- kseistrup 13y agoI see. Thanks.
- joelrunyon 13y agoIsn't this a PG version of bangwithfriends?
- garrettdreyfus 13y agoWhat does Paul Graham have to do with this?
- MarkIceberg 13y agoI dont think he means Paul Graham. More likely, PG the movie rating.
- garrettdreyfus 13y agoSorry I was being a bit sarcastic.
- balladeer 13y agoPardon my ignorance, but by PG you meant Paul Graham?
- DanBC 13y ago"PG" means "parental guidance" and is a movie rating.
- patrickaljord 13y agoA movie rating in the US.
- DanBC 13y ago... And the UK, but not many other places, which is why I explain it and expand the initialism.
- mebeweber 13y ago
- tonylampada 13y agoI remember this exact crush feature was on Orkut about 13 years ago.
- avckp 13y ago"login with facebook" "Sorry"
- eropple 13y agoIt needs a social graph to do what it does. Do you have a better option for that than Facebook?
- MarkIceberg 13y agoThis is what is scaring away most of the site visitors. Each permission has a reason for being asked for: "&scope=email,friends_about_me,user_about_me" email: to notify you when a match is found. an access_token grants us knowledge of only the users email and not his friends'. This cannot be used for viral email harvesting. friends_about_me: To seperate views based on gender. user_about_me: to help decide which view is to be "initially " displayed based on the users' gender.
- jnbiche 13y agoWhy do you need to segregate based on gender, anyway? Boys can crush on boys, and girls can crush on girls. If they discover that they are a mutual crush, why deny them the fun? If you really want to filter views, let the user make a explicit decision to filer view based on gender, using a drop-down menu or something.
- iancarroll 13y agoThere comes a point where you're going overboard about privacy.
- kall 13y agoAnd that point is same sex crushes?
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- bybjorn 13y agoHmm, looks like the web-version of Tinder which has already been available for a while and is pretty popular http://www.gotinder.com http://www.gotinder.com
- the1 13y agowhy not just ask the girl/boy out?
- omilu 13y agothis
- booruguru 13y ago"Crushify" is a really awkward name. And I really wish this "-ify" trend would end...it's lazy and utterly lame.
- MarkIceberg 13y agoguilty of laziness.
- d0m 13y agoLazify might be your new project!
- acjohnson55 13y agoLet's add to that anything with the word "square" or phrased as an adverb "-ly"
- MildlySerious 13y agoI was thinking of some API to crush image files. Or something.
- matthewnolandev 13y agoJesus! Just go talk to her!