Show HN: SnpCht.com, a site that lets you secretly save your unread snapchats

http://snpcht.com/

by kaushalp88 • 13 years ago

44 48 13 years ago

snpcht.com

ilozinski2• 13 years ago

Pretty neat.

graetzer• 13 years ago

I wouldn't trust a random website with my login info

geetee• 13 years ago

Not a secure connection either.

gailees• 13 years ago

Would you trust snapchat?

nicholassmith• 13 years ago

More so than a random website not associated with it. They're going after an IPO at some stage so they need to be as legitimate as possible.

Daviey• 13 years ago

Show the sauce, luke?

newobj• 13 years ago

Based on the same premise that I would let someone secretly save my unread snail mail by giving them a key to my house.

ilozinski2• 13 years ago

Are you implying you lock your mailbox?

nwh2• 13 years ago

Mine is certainly locked. Many places in Britain also just have the letter box in the front door, which I assume the parent is referencing.

honzzz• 13 years ago

Are you implying you lock your mailbox?

Would that be surprising to you? I assume you might be an American - I was really surprised when I visited the US and noticed that most people use unlocked boxes located outside of their houses to get their mail. Where I live people either lock their mailboxes or they get mail through a slot in their locked door - nobody leaves their mail accessible.

makmanalp2• 13 years ago

Well, in the US it's a substantial federal offense to steal mail or to read someone else's mail (coughunlessyouarethegovernmentcough), so that acts as a big deterrent, I think.

TallGuyShort2• 13 years ago

Which a lot of people do. They give a trusted entity (a neighbor) their access token (keys) to check on and maintain their property while on vacation.

rebel2• 13 years ago

Except that you know where your neighbor lives and are able to find him in the event something goes wrong.

Raphmedia3• 13 years ago

... I would never, ever do that.

A sibling, sure. But a neighbour? Hell no. If I haven't seen you get born, you sure are not getting unlimited access to where I live.

dsl• 13 years ago

The problem with this service (or others like it) is the next eventual step is making your private snaps you've saved with the service public.

Snapchat itself faces the same problem. They are sitting the greatest trove of amateur porn ever, and eventually they need to figure out how to make money.

InclinedPlane• 13 years ago

If you know everyone's social graph and you use sneaky ways of identifying people even when they are using different computers or using the private/incognito mode of browsers (which is definitely technologically possible) then perhaps it would be possible to serve up "private" erotic photographs only to a subset of users who are maximally disconnected from the people in the photographs.

I wonder how long you could get away with pulling off something like that if you were as sneaky as possible.

wavesounds• 13 years ago

This website doesn't even pretend to have a privacy policy.

untog• 13 years ago

Also the greatest trove of child porn.

rebel2• 13 years ago

I wouldn't trust a service like this, although I know many people will (or just won't think about that aspect). The main point I'm seeing from this is that it devalues the Snapchat service immensely. I know there are other services offering the same functionality as well. I'm sure it will be impossible for Snapchat to keep them out, and it could destroy Snapchat as they begin to catch on. I'm now less likely to send snaps as I know they can more easily be recorded forever.

landr0id• 13 years ago

Friend of mine made a website like this that supports videos and pictures [1]. It's hard to trust something like that, but if you want you could always create your own implementation (see the About screen).

[1] http://expetelek.com/nolimit/

kaushalp882• 13 years ago

We support videos as well as pictures.

aabalkan• 13 years ago

I don't trust you. Please make this open source so I can host it myself. (or even better, a desktop application for other people as well).

If you don't, pretty sure somebody will do.

drobati• 13 years ago

Read his comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6729362

He uses pysnap.

hornbaker• 13 years ago

You're poking a $4B bear, so prepare for the C&D.

ErikAugust2• 13 years ago

Snaphax, simple PHP class that connects and uses the Snapchat API - https://github.com/tlack/snaphax

Would assume snpcht.com uses it.

kaushalp882• 13 years ago

Actually we use this: https://github.com/martinp/pysnap

ErikAugust2• 13 years ago

Thanks -

It's just the tokens and keys contained that really matter, I guess.

ENGNR• 13 years ago

Extremely unethical, the whole point of someone sending you a snapchat is that they don't want you to be able to save it (let alone save it on a third party server)

VladRussian2• 13 years ago

NSA saves it anyway :). I mean once your unencrypted bits hit the wire/waves, all these statements about who can(not) read/see/save/etc.. are just fog.

aryastark• 13 years ago

"Is the NSA storing nude pictures of kids? Are your children in danger? More at 11."

We may get meaningful regulation after all.

gojomo• 13 years ago

Curious: if you have unviewed snaps, backup your iPhone, view the snaps, then restore from backup - can you view again? (Assume 'airplane mode' off-network for any of the steps where it might help.)

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