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50 pointsbenjlang36 comments

The only reason I didn't try this is because when you use these apps it shows up as "so-and-so is using relationbook" and I don't want everybody to see that. I know there's a way to hide it, but I never trust that it hides it completely.

We won't post without your permission! We ask you to do it, butr you don't have to, you can use the app without posting

Okay, I'll give it a shot!

If you set it as "only me" no one will see it.

Used it for less than 3 minutes, got more than 10 "Share with your friends!" pop-ups that if you hit "no" on forgets the action you were trying to perform before it showed the pop-up. Very annoying.

Sorry we will fix that asap.

I see that friends are showed twice when they are in a relationship with another friend of you.

So if I have two friends: A and B, they're listed twice like:

A is in a relationship with B B is in a relationship with A

Bit redundant imo.

It is a bit, but it's important to have both of them there, so that you can accurately filter by gender. Also, If I would hide one of them, and then you search for that person, you won't get results

Just a heads up: "both of them" may be the same gender.

Doesn't affect the app, just a note on the language.

FYI: Facebook's legal team really frowns upon any domain name that uses xxxxbook.xxx - you should expect to hear from them soon.

I don't really see a clear legal basis for this. is there any legal precedence?

I assume they can revoke any app's access at any time, without legal action.

This is restoring a feature that existed in circa 2005 Thefacebook. You could easily browse your friends in various relationship states. Many more people would actually set their status as "Single" back then too. Nowadays, in my friend circles, most single people just don't broadcast their relationship status.

Does anyone else find this quite a creepy concept?

It's what Facebook was originally built for and then failed at making it easy to use...

I love your thinking, Ben. You are a problem solver. Well done!

Is it any different than going through all your friends' pages one-by-one?

If it matched it with outside data (like Foursquare to see how often or when single friends go to bars or even identify which ones at which times), that would definitely be creepy.

The problem with the similar "Girls Around Me" app from a few months ago was it used all public Facebook and Foursquare profiles. As far as I can tell, this is limited to your own friends.

I guess I must be the only person on HN who was curious how many of my highschool classmates are married and not single.

Nice weekend project. Fortunately for mankind (unfortunately for your app,) it seems most people (as scientifically sampled by my friend list) do not consider Facebook the canonical representation of their relationship status.

An ex-girlfriend who recently was married still has her status as single (not making that up.)

Personally I never have, and never will, assign a facebook status to my relationships unless I am married.

Interestingly, the once popular "open relationship" status now has zero takers in my friend list.

Is http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/15/thedatable-launch/ the inspiration behind this ?

Nope, we started building before we heard of it.

Nice idea and great execution, congrats. I tried it for a while and I already discovered some friends who got married (and I was not aware of it) and some other friends who are not divorced.

I would love your web app even more if it would provide me with a list of updated events. I don't check FB very often and it would be lovely to just use your service once in a while and see, in a glance, who got married, who got divorced, etc.

While it doesn't cover all the relationship status changes, the Break-up Notifier (http://www.breakupnotifier.com/) provides part of that functionality. Arguably the most useful part :)

Thank you for the preview of the app given before connecting with Facebook! I wish more applications which require connection to another service did this.

I also have the same issue with it crashing. Safari on the iPhone (5.1.1)

- Starts to load Friends

- Screen goes to black as the app is terminated

Also, it does not load at all on Chrome for iPhone (the main site loads, but nothing happens after you click on the "Lets Go" button; besides opening a new tab).

Unfortunately, this web app reliably crashes Mobile Safari on my iPad 3. Perhaps the logic is done clientside over the set of all my ~1000 friends?

Hey, yes the logic is all clientside, in fact there's no server side code here at all. I will look into the crashing issue asap. Thanx (on my 356 friends it works ok on ipad 2)

That's not your fault. No web app should be able to crash its browser. It is like a browser causes blue screen of death. If you figure out the reason write a blog post about it and send to Apple please. It happens while fetching friends stage, so I believe it could be about storing large data on client via js if you are doing so. Just saying. Wanna try that out when it is fixed! Cheers.

Thanks, on it...

Nice job, and in particular it looks great. Is the design a template or did you make it from scratch? If so where did your inspiration come from?

you mis-spelled RelationBook as RelatiobBook in the authorization dialog

Thanx! fixed

This is cool. Now add age and sexual orientation filtering!

It keeps crashing Mobile Safari (5.1.1) for me.

check out http://servletsuite.com/fbdir/

Needs an age filter

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