There are 2.4 billion people on the Internet. We should get to know each other.

by codybrown • 13 years ago

48 25 13 years ago

shared4you• 13 years ago

It says "Anonymous and secure", but I don't see HTTPS in the URL. When I prefix https:// Firefox complains about untrusted certificate. Am I missing something?

josh_miller• 13 years ago

Sorry about that! I think the "Secure" copy is a bit misleading. We'll take that down.

What we meant to communicate with "Anonymous and Secure" is, "Feel free to be completely honest because we won't show this information to anyone else, and we won't even ask for your name or identity!"

It was a weekend project finished on little sleep. Sorry abou the "secure" bit.

lucb1e2• 13 years ago

You can get free https certificates at https://startssl.com

On a first glance they don't look too high-tech and trustworthy, but for example https://lucb1e.com seems to be valid in all browsers.

MojoJolo• 13 years ago

You're the Josh Miller from Branch right? Oh well, just clarifying. :) I admire you.

p4bl05• 13 years ago

The certificate being "untrusted" doesn't mean anything about security. It just mean that they have signed it themselves and that no central authorities that you are supposed to trust for whatever reasons has signed it for them. All you want here is an encrypted communication, and you get that with the self-signed certificate as well.

halviti• 13 years ago

Yes, you get encrypted communication all the way to the person intercepting your internet traffic, and they have an encrypted channel to the server they are relaying your traffic to.

Security!

eli2• 13 years ago

No. Without a trusted authority or some other means to verify that the self-signed certificate is indeed coming from the site, there is effectively no security because it is trivial to launch a MITM attack.

morganwilde• 13 years ago

Well it definitely provided some mental projections into how wonderful would it be to have more people around me that are interested in achieving the same things. Filling out those forms felt nice and regardless of the results, I feel strangely satisfied.

waterlesscloud• 13 years ago

Interesting. I had a similar reaction.

There must be something to the idea, even if this isn't an ideal implementation.

rjtavares• 13 years ago

Are you going to update the domain name to keep up with Internet growth? That might be expensive...

L4mppu2• 13 years ago

They could buy domain names in advance so they can get them cheaper because they are not yet relevant.

filip01• 13 years ago

I like the idea. Some feedback: I started filling out the form but once I realised there was ~10 input fields and not ~2 I just quit. Also, something tells me that you're more likely to actually deliver good matches if you make everything simpler. Not only will you be able to handle the data in a good way but you'll probably have more people join.

lucb1e2• 13 years ago

Didn't look at the website yet, but just from the link: Try Google+. I don't know most people that I circled there. Not that I have Facebook, but when I look at Facebook with others it's more like talking to people you already know. With Google+' trending topics (I don't think Facebook has that, nor is Facebook as content-oriented as Google+) it's easy to see others posting about a popular subject, see their profile and posts, and circle them. And of course exploring topics you like with the Google+ search.

Edit: Submitted. Let's see where this goes :)

opyate• 13 years ago

Are you planning multilingual support?

p4bl05• 13 years ago

[meta] Why is this not on the frontpage? I see links with less than 10 points from an hour ago there, but not this link with more than 10 points from less than half an hour ago. Not that I care that much for this particular link, but it seems strange.

Edit: seems to be there now (approx. 20 minutes later). Maybe there was some change in the ranking algorithm recently? I don't believe I saw it acting like this before.

akshayagarwal• 13 years ago

Is this yet another social network?

L4mppu2• 13 years ago

It seems only to connect people and let them figure communicating together.

Ianvdl• 13 years ago

The button isn't working for me (Tested in Firefox 18 and Chrome 24), could anyone explain what the output looks like?

jesalg• 13 years ago

Very cool. A similar idea had been buzzing around in my head for the last couple of months - you enter some attributes about yourself and on the other end get 1 match per week with whom you should connect with. Great way to meet new people. You guys beat me to it! Would love to see how this evolves.

EDIT:

After filling out the form, I think some things can be combined/simplified to make it easier to parse: - Many twitter users I follow tend to be the authors of the blogs I read as well. Maybe just connect with Twitter and get a listing of all the people I follow? - Also what format should the songs be listed in? or maybe just keep that limited to artists & bands. - Utilize Facebook Graph to pre-populate interests, music, movies.

caffeinewriter• 13 years ago

I'd love to have some way to add more interests after the fact, because I immediately realized I wanted to add one more thing after I hit submit. Maybe just even resubmit the form with the same email. Or enter your email and it'll bring up a profile. Something like that.

There are 2.4 billion people on the Internet. We should get to know each other.

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