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Show HN: Playbook - Share your hookups with your bros (at PennApps)

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13 pointsgailees41 comments

Is this a fucking joke? Who needs this? This is not only classless, but from a purely objective standpoint, who would actually use this thing? With your target demographic in mind, it seems to me like it will turn into the greasiest, skeeziest, cesspool on the entire internet in no time.

Just broke 100 signups.

You may eventually realize that not all publicity is good publicity.

...bro.

Children who haven't learned to comport themselves with the baseline dignity necessary to live in adult society.

I think if you have something that is "Show HN" there should be more to see than just a landing page. I'd like to see how you built it, what it looks like, something more than just "enter your email address and we'll notify you when it's available."

we have to wait for the app to be published :/

This is extremely disrespectful to women. They aren't objects.

Guys are already talking to each other about the girls they hookup with -- we just made the process more digital and secure.

It's just low.

you could make a facebook for white supremacists and say you weren't encouraging racism, just making the process more digital and secure.

Just because people are already doing some sort of negative and disrespectful thing, that doesn't make it alright to build a tool to actively encourage people to continue doing it.

Are you saying that talking with your closest friends about the girls you've been with is negative and disrespectful?

Can be, often is, yup.

To put it succinctly: a gentleman doesn't kiss and tell.

It's disrespectful of the trust that your partner places in you by engaging in what is fundamentally a private interaction to share it publicly without their permission.

Actually this is a natural consequence of a society strangled by church views on morality.

When can we give up the idea that sex, for no other reason than gratification, lust and desire is in any way bad?

When can we get over the idea that women don't want sex? That they shouldn't be allowed to want sex? That they should feel sorry for wanting to have sex?

If you accept that women should have the same rights as men, it should follow that they should be the one to choose when, how, where and whom to sleep with -- and how often.

But of course, if you don't, if you believe that women are somehow inferior to men in matters of judgement, then your comment makes perfect sense.

That is not an argument I can support, though.

This is satire of how misogynistic geek culture can be, right? Because this couldn't possibly be serious?

right?

I'm dreadfully worried that this is NOT satire.

tisk tisk pennApps...

This is the most disgusting, gratuitous display of misogyny I have ever seen.

Gailees lists his facebook on his profile: https://www.facebook.com/davefontenot

Let me just say, David, that you're a cretin. You're why my female friends don't want shit to do with geek culture. You're poison in the well.

what does this have to do with geek culture?

Do NOT make this community about persecution -- I see no reason to list his Facebook profile in this thread other than to harass -- even if he has it listed in his profile.

Playing devils advocate..

Lots of people (guys and girls) already discuss this info with their close friends so this is just taking that conversation online.

I think that linking his Facebook in an aggressive comment isn't appropriate.

Signed up. I want to see this train wreck first-hand.

Well.. you got the comments section stirred up with just a landing page and an idea. Good job.

Ignoring the moral issue of this.. can't this be replicated by making a private group on Facebook? Your friends are already on Facebook.. and the girls probably are too!

If my girlfriend ever found out I was using this she would literally kill me.

It that is true, you are in an abusive relationship.

Leave.

She won't let me she said she would kill me if I ever left.

Okay, that is a definate then.

Leave.

I think that the US is just really afraid to talk openly about our relationships with other people.

I agree with you completely. The problem is that I don't think the behavior you're encouraging solves that.

Talking about hookups is almost always about objectification: it's encouraging people to talk openly about relationships, yes, but relationships between people and objects of sexual gratification rather than between actual mature adults.

I always find it fascinating how the prevailing christian attitudes about sex have spread so well to the entire population, even as that same population is less and less christian.

In this case, you are implying that mature adults sex lives should not include one night stands with people they have no emotional attachment to. Why?

You miss the point, deliberately and repeatedly. This is glorifying the treating of women as objects, and bragging about having done so.

I think that the US is just really afraid to stop using the word "literally" incorrectly.

(yes, I know they changed the definition. I pretend it never happened!)

How will you monetize this??

This one is an app at this point; not a business, but we will be looking at doing different things. Currently, instead of liking a friend's "play" or hookup, you can buy them a beer from a local microbrewery to get delivered to their door!

How secure is this!?

As secure as your best friends that you choose to add on the app are. You choose who has access to your stream of "plays."

girls are going to love this

We are looking into making it gender-neutral, because outside of it being targeted at guys, we totally think this is something girls would love to use too!

Even with the background picture of the woman?

Before we publish to the App Store, we will be finding a more gender-neutral but still eye-catching background image for the launch page :)

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