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It should probably be noted that this is apparently for the "2015 Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon" (https://stupidhackathon.github.io/).

So... yes, the point is that it's stupid and amusing.

The prize categories are hilarious.

There was another one, with the same name held in New York last year: http://www.stupidhackathon.com/, funny how this one has the same name, but this one has a github.io address.

The SF hackathon didn't have nearly as many sex toys...

Different people. I asked.

I like how both "prize" and "categories" are in quotes.

Originally had "(stupid hackathon project)" in the title, but it was removed by the mods.

I'd assume that the probably thought you were calling it stupid, rather then that there is literally a hackathon called "stupid hackathon".

I'd really like to see ASCII representations of my matches.

Yeah some of us in the audience were wondering the same thing, where's the ASCII pics?!

Man I WISH i knew about this hackathon! Does someone know a good resource to keep up to date with upcoming hackathons (in SF or just by city, or even global and i'll filter)?

http://challengepost.com/discover - is usually what I've seen being used as the de facto hackathon organizing site.

this is a pretty good idea, like a "don't judge a book by its cover" version of tinder.. but that kind of goes against the whole point of tinder, right?

Can it show pics via ASCII art?

Yes, but they all come out

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That's not ASCII, that's Unicode (or Shift-JIS, or JIS X 0201...)

or via framebuffer!

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/gutsy/man1/fbi.1.html

Or, if you want to evoke the 70s for ... some reason... use tektronix terminal emulation built into xterm: http://www.dim13.org/teapot

It'd be doable to set up something with aalib[1] or libcaca[2] (for color support) - the resolution would be pretty bad though ;)

I'd give it a shot myself, but unfortunately I'm not familiar with Go or Tinder's API.

[1] http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/ [2] http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca

Just use feh and you would be all set.

EDIT: feh is a X11 command line image viewer. I use it all the time with w3m (Console web browser)

[] http://feh.finalrewind.org/

Serious question: Why does Tinder need an API?

What else are their native apps supposed to use?

I think the OP may be referring to a public API. I can't think of any positive practical uses for the public API as-is. In the hands of a more malicious person, it could be a tool to automate harassing users.

I havent seen a truely positive use of the API either. In fact they've had problems with it.

There was an exploit at one point that allowed you to ask the API "how far from my current position is this person" and it returned a very precise distance based on both user's gps. If you then moved your location (just the argument, no need to actually move), you could triangluate the other users exact location. Tinder fixed that by fuzzing the distance and giving less precision.

There are also apps that auto like everyone. This sort of defeats the purpose of the app. Tinder didnt seem to really mind though. They did eventually limit the number of "likes" each user can have in a day, but added a pay option ot bypass it too.

> There are also apps that auto like everyone. This sort of defeats the purpose of the app.

It's what a lot of people do anyway, though. Why not automate an action if it's the action people want? (Farming/grinding bots in MMOs, for example.) If the service doesn't like it, they can always put a stop to it by changing the incentive structure of their "game."

That is in fact the use case. One popular case was a bot that played guys off other, pretending they were taking to a different (woman) with s different pic.

Maybe you want to build the Swipe App To Rule Them All, or maybe you want to build HotOrNot for Tinder: "The Hotttest People On Tinder" [sic].

From the README: "built at the 2015 Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon". I'd say it definitely doesn't need a public API, but for their apps on various platforms, it's probably useful.

Pyre, the console app, was built at the 2015 Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon.

The API was created by Tinder for reasons I don't know.

You could make a kind of 'set and forget' Tinder.

What if you made it say yes to everyone. Then it takes only the ones who matched. Then you could start culling people by with the word 'YOLO' or hashtags or instagram accounts in their bio or some shit. Then start running facial recognition based on manually selected ideals. Then it could send an opener line from a list. And then finally, it could send you an alert if the match replies to your automatic opener, as well as recording all their details.

Make some fake facebook accounts and start running it in different cities etc to collect a bigger data set, you could find your own personalised statistically most successful pick up line, by age group, 'likes' etc.

We can call it "Fear of Rejection"

Edit: I have no idea what im doing, how can you make it reply to a received message? https://github.com/zachlatta/pyre/compare/master...MichaelYo...

Its already been made. See TinderBox.

It uses Eigenfaces to figure out if it should like someone for you, and then has a basic conversation to judge if they are sufficiently interested for Tinderbox to alert you.

https://github.com/crockpotveggies/tinderbox

What's the over/under on the number of people this will get laid? I'm putting it at 1.

Love that it's called Pyre. Who's dead?

Why is everything a Go CLI these days? This should totally be a Ruby gem!

At first I thought I should write one the next time I'm bored for a while. Then I googled and found that it already exists. Naturally. https://github.com/nneal/tinder_pyro

Great name choice!

Exactly what I was looking for; a command line interface for an image based dating service. What's up with this 'command line for everything' fad? Balls to britches

Holy smokes!

You gotta love the extreme down voting going on here at Hacker News. Woohoo!

This is a gratuitously negative comment so i can get in on the downvotes here.

Woohoo!

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