Show HN: NeedNumbers.me, import contacts from "New Phone, Need #s" FB groups

by stephenou • 14 years ago

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benjlang• 14 years ago

Very useful!

Bob_Sheep• 14 years ago

No, if you need to ask for phone numbers by using a facebook group you are doing it wrong. This just serves to encourage more people to do the wrong thing.

rabidsnail• 14 years ago

Wait, people do this?

27182818284• 14 years ago

Yes. It used to be much, much more frequent before smartphones. It is decreasing rapidly, though, as we'd all expect in a time and age where smartphones seemlessly backup contacts to the cloud.

CrazedGeek• 14 years ago

You still see it in places and with communities where smartphones are less popular. I see a lot of them from students in middle and high school. (Although usually as status updates, not groups.)

uncoder0• 14 years ago

I remember need a new number groups used to be quite common before the wide adoption of smartphones. Is this still a thing?

ryanio• 14 years ago

It would be neat to bypass the facebook group method and just have a website that you can request people's phone numbers (just a simple submit form). Then the numbers aren't publicly available for everyone to snoop.

The reason people make the group or event is because when you invite everyone they get a notification and a lot more people see it rather than a status update (that maybe <10% of your friends see). So maybe creating an event or group then linking to givemeyournumbers.com/john_smith

stephenou• 14 years ago

OP here.

Many said this isn't wide-used anymore. But as a high school student, I still get invited to those groups/events frequently, and people said they've been waiting for something like this for a long time. So there is still a big market here.

Glad I could contribute my little bit to make this process a lot faster. Well worth making this as my 5-hour side project.

brackin• 14 years ago

Although this is less common than it once was I still get invited to these groups a few times a month so this is useful. I've just graduated high school and I think some of my other friends would get them even more as my friend group is slightly more technical.

Show HN: NeedNumbers.me, import contacts from "New Phone, Need #s" FB groups

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