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You should also mention you are using Sherlock as the underlying backend which does that actual searching as you did in this post.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/z1ts1n/i_built_an_a...

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https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock

https://github.com/bnkc/handlefinder

With that said, I like the look of the UI you put on top, great work!

Edit: As others have pointed out, the author doesn't need to make their creation MIT as well. I misunderstood the license agreement. They just have to include the notice of the dependencies somewhere. TIL.

The MIT license isn't infectious! You might have just told the author to give up their rights.

They're well within their rights to release their software as MIT or whatever, but they should make that decision on their own or as reflection upon the proper arguments from the community.

OP did right after posting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33722495 Almost the same text as on reddit.

Second sentence in the README file on github is "This app is a wrapper around The Sherlock Project" (last edited 5h before posting) and second sentence in the UI is "This project is a wrapper around the Sherlock Project."

They don't need to add the MIT license. They only need to include the notice somewhere.

Yep, my misunderstanding.

Hey! Just added the MIT license.

So, you should cache hits. If someone asks the same question again five minutes later, then you shouldn't need to look them up again.

Also, it would be nice to show misses -- where the account name hasn't been used.

I have found a few other people out there with the same name, and it would be nice to know what systems I can go to and grab the name I want to use.

Apologies if I misread the license attribution, didn't want to take away from the work you did but also wanted to make sure credit was given.

Cheers

It really is amazing how many people advertise or shun license without even knowing what it does...

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