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Show HN: Lunchspire, lunch dating for hackers, made in 6h

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Gah. Yet another site that wants access to a social media account without explaining why.

OK, you had a "cool" idea. Took you a few hours to implement it. Now that you've implemented, please write some documentation (in the form of introductory information on your web site) explaining that you'll be requesting access to my Twitter/Facebook/WTFE account and why. And, no, typical marketing bullshit is not acceptable (e.g. "So that we can offer you the best possible experience" is not a good reason to want permission to post as me)

We found it way too difficult to find new and interesting people who wanted to discuss the same topics as we did. So we created this during a quick hack at http://startuplocation.com/hack just to get the discussion started. However, if you are curious as to how and what this does with credentials here you go: https://github.com/siavashg/lunchspire

Why don't you ask for just an email address?

Pointing me to the source as documentation is just lazy. Entice me to use your project. Excite me about your goals. Interest me in looking at your code.

Besides, from a security standpoint, I have no idea whether the code in that repository is actually the code running on the site.

Ligthen up. It's a project done in 6 hours. Judge it at that. Why do you need to be so hostile? Don't use it if you don't want to.

And no I have no affiliation with the guys and think it's totally fine to be critical, but give the guy a break you speak to them as if they are immature brats.

In all fairness, if I am meeting with random people for lunch I would like to at least see who they are on the web, it is not any sort of guarantee but it's good to at least have an idea.

To be quite honest it was probably mostly because he did it in six hours and adding a few lines to validate against facebook/twitter was quicker than setting up a whole account stack.

So I suppose these "I implemented this in less than a day" headlines do not imply any kind of quality control. I'll adjust my mental model to incorporate that.

Attempt to enter an "incorrect" time like "2012-05-14 1:00PM" and see the code dump a 'native' error into your browser.

Our intention with the project was to initiate a discussion among the hackers at the hack and hopefully inspire them to keep in touch. Sorry about the lack of quality, but feel free to contribute: https://github.com/siavashg/lunchspire

The problem with those headlines on HN is that they mean to be boastful, not humble.

I totally get the point of the headlines, if they meant "... so disregard minor bugs we have left to iron out".

There's not much of a point in boasting about creating a service/script in X hours or weeks, unless you're applying for a very specific job or trying to explain how easy it is to set up a Y (e.g. PAAS, frameworks, etc.).

I applaud people who are self starters and love to create. I'm one of them.

But why the importance on the short amount of time the project was made in? (I assume you're trying to communicate it as important because of your headline.)

Does the fact that you created this site in 6 hours change our entire perception of the site? I'm genuinely wondering.

I'm guessing that it shows that you know your tools, and can put together a proof of concept quickly.

There is no telling how much of the code was copied from other projects the developer has worked on. It's clear that Bootstrap UI was copy/pasted from a sample because the Lunchspire contains lots of libraries that it's not even using. Nevertheless, putting this together in 6 hours is impressive.

Would love to check it, but:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tornado/web.py", line 988, in _execute getattr(self, self.request.method.lower())(args, kwargs) File "/home/webadmin/lunchspire/handlers/lunchhandler.py", line 23, in get File "/home/webadmin/lunchspire/handlers/__init__.py", line 24, in render File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tornado/web.py", line 474, in render html = self.render_string(template_name, *kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tornado/web.py", line 573, in render_string t = loader.load(template_name) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tornado/template.py", line 323, in load File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tornado/template.py", line 353, in _create_template IOError: [Errno 24] Too many open files: '/home/webadmin/lunchspire/templates/lunch_list.html'

I think that coding an app is the less important part, if you want your app succeed you have to know how to promote it, how to make it grow, how to make it easy to use, etc ( maybe is boring, but must to be done)

Can't view people's icons, which is a bit of a hindrance (Twitter is banned at work)

Perhaps mirror the images? Or use Gravatar? Or ignore people working at BigCorps, they may not be your target demo?

I like the idea (as someone who knows few other techies/entrepreneurs in his small town). But, the 'Update your profile' and 'Post tweets for you' requirements are huge red alerts. If you are going to require such an invasive twitter feature, you need to first explain exactly what tweets and under what conditions it would auto-post. Facebook login at least has the advantage of making permissions optional and you get a little box so you can explain. I'd say drop these requirement for new users. You can always request them later right?

Trying to host a lunch:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tornado/web.py", line 931, in wrapper return callback(args, *kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tornado/auth.py", line 296, in _on_request_token Exception: Could not get request token

Maybe add the city to each lunch? I think all of them are in Stockholm right now, but not sure.

This could be awesome. How about a filter for not showing past lunches or lunches today.

Thanks for sending out a tweet as my Twitter account without asking or telling me. I really wanted that.

Who knows what this site will do with your credentials on other sites.

I haven't tried it out yet (it seems pretty early-on) but it is a pretty cool idea. Lunchspire is to Meetup.com what Twitter is to Blogging.

Maybe a way to cancel a join?

Great idea. Get G+ hangout integrated maybe?

Awesome, may I ask why you did decide to hack that together in 6hours. Were 5hours ot 7 hours options also on the table?

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