Show HN: Hack My Facebook - Most Viral App at PennApps

by gailees • 14 years ago

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I'm curious what the average login rate is, versus the average Hacker News login rate is. I don't mind using Facebook for login, but I do it cautiously. This, I'm a bit too nervous to try.

gailees7• 14 years ago

We've done a few FB apps before and the avg CTR on splash page/home page usually comes out to anywhere from 10-30%

We don't post anything without your explicit permission on the page following authentication.

namuorg• 14 years ago

"Disclaimer: This app can and will post a large amount of hilarious content from your Facebook account."

This makes it seem like the app will post without my explicit permission.

citricsquid• 14 years ago

(re-branding of: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529712)

gailees7• 14 years ago

This is a tweak of BuddyHack, which we posted to HN earlier today. We had to tweak the site which was banned from Facebook originally.

crazypyro• 14 years ago

I like how you changed the app. Realistically, you could still use it on a friends facebook, but at least they can't say you are promoting it now...

gailees7• 14 years ago

I'm glad you like our change :)

nbpoole• 14 years ago

> We don't post anything without your explicit permission on the page following authentication.

Respectfully going to disagree on that one. The "Unhack" button doesn't seem to have removed any content from my profile but it did post a link on my timeline promoting the app (and using the old URL and name). Definitely not expected behavior.

    Mess With Your Friends | BuddyHack
    buddyhack.com
    "Sorry guys, I just got Buddyhacked. Whoever it was, I will find you, and I will get you back."

There's a reason I use the 'Only Me' privacy for the few new apps that I add, and it's behavior like this. Luckily when you remove an app there's a check box to remove activities generated by that app.

gailees7• 14 years ago

Fixing that one now. Must've missed that one whenever we tweaked the app.

alexelee• 14 years ago

Can see why this won Most Viral at the east coast's biggest hackathon!

cabogdan• 14 years ago

Ahh this is great!

Karunamon• 14 years ago

Just an FYI, if this gains any traction, you're going to have Facebook legal after you for using the word "facebook" in the app name - it happened to the Better Facebook folks (had to change their name to "social fixer")

Because some moron could confuse the main site and this, I don't know. Lawyers ruin everything.

borplk• 14 years ago

what does it do?

gailees7• 14 years ago

It lets you pretend to hack your own facebook. We found that this is hilarious for both you and many of your close friends.

derwiki• 14 years ago

Reminds me of a site I made that has a similar background, but is personalized to your friends: http://friendgrid.heroku.com/

gailees7• 14 years ago

This is awesome, and we don't have to make our own. Next time, we are definitely using this as the background! Thanks for building this!

SchizoDuckie• 14 years ago

So.. What does it do? It's a bit of mystery meat. No demo, no screenshots, just 'hack my facebook'. Why would I click that to try something?

You should really provide a demo or a clear explanation of what's going to happen instead of just 'hack my facebook'.

Show HN: Hack My Facebook - Most Viral App at PennApps

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