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43 pointsMarkIceberg52 comments

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.

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".

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.

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?)

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. :)

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.

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

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.

Isn't this a PG version of bangwithfriends?

What does Paul Graham have to do with this?

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

Sorry I was being a bit sarcastic.

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

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

A movie rating in the US.

... And the UK, but not many other places, which is why I explain it and expand the initialism.

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/

No. we are not.

"No, we are not, this was definitely our own idea."

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?)?

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

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

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

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

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

guilty of laziness.

Lazify might be your new project!

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

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

I remember this exact crush feature was on Orkut about 13 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

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.

It sure is. Thanks :)

why not just ask the girl/boy out?

this

Showstopper for me: Log in with Facebook

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.

I see. Thanks.

Jesus! Just go talk to her!

"login with facebook" "Sorry"

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

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.

Why do you need to segregate based on gender, anyway? Boys can crush on boys, and girls can crush on girls. If they discover that they are a mutual crush, why deny them the fun?

If you really want to filter views, let the user make a explicit decision to filer view based on gender, using a drop-down menu or something.

There comes a point where you're going overboard about privacy.

And that point is same sex crushes?

We dont limit you to same sex crushes. There is a toggle button to switch between genders

You can save crushes on person of either gender.

Huh? My comment was regarding same sex crushes, not privacy.

I don't know what I was thinking when I posted this.

Thats to load the initial view. You can toggle between genders very conviniently. Wouldnt be a good idea to load the entire friendslist in one go.

Ah ok, fair enough. I figured you were using it to make only girls available to boys, and vice versa.

Still, if that permission is giving you problems because of people's reactions, just showing the entire friend list (with paging, of course) may not be a bad idea.

Adds a whole new dimension to 'fraping'.

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