Show HN: Crushify.org

by MarkIceberg • 12 years ago

43 52 12 years ago

Comkid• 12 years ago

http://www.downapp.com/

There are more examples of apps just like this that came before (this is the only one that comes to mind at the moment), the only way I would be remotely interested is if they figured a way to solve the inherent problem of selecting all/some of your friends as crushes to see who had you as a crush, and then what happens when someone legitimately adds the person who was just checking everyone's crushes.

rahimnathwani• 12 years ago

I've heard that this is a problem with real-life speed-dating as well.

matthewrudy• 12 years ago

I guess speed dating is always a conflict between making the most sincere matches, and making sure everyone has fun.

If that one person says "yes" to everyone, no doubt their intentions were to game the system, but if they avoid attendees going away thinking "no one liked me", then they've actually benefited the event's success.

techaddict009• 12 years ago

Seems similar to bang with friends. Except the bang part.

aegiso• 12 years ago

Solve two nearly insurmountable problems and you have a winner:

1) Make it impossible to game. 2) Chicken and egg.

I have no idea how to solve these problems, but it's a concept ripe for disruption if you do.

MarkIceberg11• 12 years ago

It sure is. Thanks :)

f_salmon• 12 years ago

Props for your effort!

What I dislike (not specifically about your project, that is!) is the idea that, as a society, we're incentivized to increasingly hide behind our screens instead of growing some balls an actually live in the "real life". Here, we're talking about dating. The other current topic: how we intend to fight democracy-destroying mass surveillance by (apparently) simply sitting behind our screens.

ojii• 12 years ago

You could also argue that this project helps society move in a way you prefer. Once you get to "mutual crush" and ideally start dating, my assumption would be that those dates would be in "real life".

dnautics• 12 years ago

most people will still hide behind their screens and not do anything about their crush. I actually had a concept that might solve this problem - in order to 'unlock' more options, you have to go on a date first and exchange passkeys with the other dater.

ddorian43• 12 years ago

Why not limit it to say 3 friends? You can't have a crush on every friend (you might want to bang them, but not crush?)?

dabito• 12 years ago

I like this idea, but perhaps it'd be better to rate limit to say 1 crush a day

MarkIceberg11• 12 years ago

Thanks for the advice. I really don't have any rate limiting features built in at the moment, but I will look into it. :)

acjohnson552• 12 years ago

There might be a negligibly low number of matches with a limit of 3.

jey• 12 years ago

This used to be extremely common as a naturally viral way to harvest email addresses, the prompt was "put in the email addresses of your crushes".

What's your twist that sets it apart from the usual variants? (Sure, building it on top of Facebook could potentially provide some additional benefits, but what are they?)

MarkIceberg11• 12 years ago

Well, frankly I wasn't expecting frontpage HN. This was just a sideproject that I was doing to get acquainted with golang. With respect to your concern about email address harvesting, the facebook graph api doesnt not give the app access to friends' email addresses. We only know the emails of the people who sign up, and it's used for notification purposes only. :)

kseistrup2• 12 years ago

Showstopper for me: Log in with Facebook

MarkIceberg11• 12 years ago

Sorry. There is no other alternative. It cannot be built without access to a social graph. I didn't think of including Twitter because of the user limits.

kseistrup2• 12 years ago

I see. Thanks.

joelrunyon• 12 years ago

Isn't this a PG version of bangwithfriends?

garrettdreyfus2• 12 years ago

What does Paul Graham have to do with this?

MarkIceberg11• 12 years ago

I dont think he means Paul Graham. More likely, PG the movie rating.

balladeer• 12 years ago

Pardon my ignorance, but by PG you meant Paul Graham?

DanBC2• 12 years ago

"PG" means "parental guidance" and is a movie rating.

mebeweber• 12 years ago

Turns out it is a rebranding of Bang With Friends after settling a suit with Zynga over 'with friends'. They are one in the same.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/25/bang-with-friends-down/

MarkIceberg11• 12 years ago

No. we are not.

tonylampada• 12 years ago

I remember this exact crush feature was on Orkut about 13 years ago.

avckp• 12 years ago

"login with facebook" "Sorry"

eropple• 12 years ago

It needs a social graph to do what it does. Do you have a better option for that than Facebook?

MarkIceberg11• 12 years ago

This is what is scaring away most of the site visitors. Each permission has a reason for being asked for: "&scope=email,friends_about_me,user_about_me"

email: to notify you when a match is found. an access_token grants us knowledge of only the users email and not his friends'. This cannot be used for viral email harvesting.

friends_about_me: To seperate views based on gender.

user_about_me: to help decide which view is to be "initially " displayed based on the users' gender.

bybjorn• 12 years ago

Hmm, looks like the web-version of Tinder which has already been available for a while and is pretty popular http://www.gotinder.com

Tycho• 12 years ago

Adds a whole new dimension to 'fraping'.

the1• 12 years ago

why not just ask the girl/boy out?

omilu• 12 years ago

this

booruguru• 12 years ago

"Crushify" is a really awkward name. And I really wish this "-ify" trend would end...it's lazy and utterly lame.

MarkIceberg11• 12 years ago

guilty of laziness.

d0m• 12 years ago

Lazify might be your new project!

acjohnson552• 12 years ago

Let's add to that anything with the word "square" or phrased as an adverb "-ly"

MildlySerious• 12 years ago

I was thinking of some API to crush image files. Or something.

matthewnolandev• 12 years ago

Jesus! Just go talk to her!

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