Show HN: Playbook - Share your hookups with your bros (at PennApps)

by gailees • 14 years ago

13 41 14 years ago

chrisoneil• 14 years ago

How secure is this!?

gailees10• 14 years ago

As secure as your best friends that you choose to add on the app are. You choose who has access to your stream of "plays."

rjvir• 14 years ago

This is extremely disrespectful to women. They aren't objects.

gailees10• 14 years ago

Guys are already talking to each other about the girls they hookup with -- we just made the process more digital and secure.

Nursie3• 14 years ago

It's just low.

michaelrkn• 14 years ago

you could make a facebook for white supremacists and say you weren't encouraging racism, just making the process more digital and secure.

lazerwalker2• 14 years ago

Just because people are already doing some sort of negative and disrespectful thing, that doesn't make it alright to build a tool to actively encourage people to continue doing it.

tomjen34• 14 years ago

Actually this is a natural consequence of a society strangled by church views on morality.

When can we give up the idea that sex, for no other reason than gratification, lust and desire is in any way bad?

When can we get over the idea that women don't want sex? That they shouldn't be allowed to want sex? That they should feel sorry for wanting to have sex?

If you accept that women should have the same rights as men, it should follow that they should be the one to choose when, how, where and whom to sleep with -- and how often.

But of course, if you don't, if you believe that women are somehow inferior to men in matters of judgement, then your comment makes perfect sense.

That is not an argument I can support, though.

tklovett• 14 years ago

How will you monetize this??

gailees10• 14 years ago

This one is an app at this point; not a business, but we will be looking at doing different things. Currently, instead of liking a friend's "play" or hookup, you can buy them a beer from a local microbrewery to get delivered to their door!

cordor91• 14 years ago

girls are going to love this

gailees10• 14 years ago

We are looking into making it gender-neutral, because outside of it being targeted at guys, we totally think this is something girls would love to use too!

agahata• 14 years ago

Even with the background picture of the woman?

CEWendel2• 14 years ago

If my girlfriend ever found out I was using this she would literally kill me.

tomjen34• 14 years ago

It that is true, you are in an abusive relationship.

Leave.

CEWendel2• 14 years ago

She won't let me she said she would kill me if I ever left.

gailees10• 14 years ago

I think that the US is just really afraid to talk openly about our relationships with other people.

roflc0ptic2• 14 years ago

This is satire of how misogynistic geek culture can be, right? Because this couldn't possibly be serious?

right?

vitno• 14 years ago

I'm dreadfully worried that this is NOT satire.

tisk tisk pennApps...

shokwave• 14 years ago

Signed up. I want to see this train wreck first-hand.

rozap2• 14 years ago

Is this a fucking joke? Who needs this? This is not only classless, but from a purely objective standpoint, who would actually use this thing? With your target demographic in mind, it seems to me like it will turn into the greasiest, skeeziest, cesspool on the entire internet in no time.

gailees10• 14 years ago

Just broke 100 signups.

rozap2• 14 years ago

You may eventually realize that not all publicity is good publicity.

...bro.

stephencanon2• 14 years ago

Children who haven't learned to comport themselves with the baseline dignity necessary to live in adult society.

selectout• 14 years ago

I think if you have something that is "Show HN" there should be more to see than just a landing page. I'd like to see how you built it, what it looks like, something more than just "enter your email address and we'll notify you when it's available."

gailees10• 14 years ago

we have to wait for the app to be published :/

aba_sababa• 14 years ago

This is the most disgusting, gratuitous display of misogyny I have ever seen.

roflc0ptic2• 14 years ago

Gailees lists his facebook on his profile: https://www.facebook.com/davefontenot

Let me just say, David, that you're a cretin. You're why my female friends don't want shit to do with geek culture. You're poison in the well.

gailees10• 14 years ago

what does this have to do with geek culture?

eggbrain• 14 years ago

Do NOT make this community about persecution -- I see no reason to list his Facebook profile in this thread other than to harass -- even if he has it listed in his profile.

onlyup2• 14 years ago

Playing devils advocate..

Lots of people (guys and girls) already discuss this info with their close friends so this is just taking that conversation online.

I think that linking his Facebook in an aggressive comment isn't appropriate.

onlyup2• 14 years ago

Well.. you got the comments section stirred up with just a landing page and an idea. Good job.

Ignoring the moral issue of this.. can't this be replicated by making a private group on Facebook? Your friends are already on Facebook.. and the girls probably are too!

Show HN: Playbook - Share your hookups with your bros (at PennApps)

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