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A couple of months ago, we received great feedback from hacker news, so I wanted to share what we are up to. Recently, we crowdsourced salaries of fictional TV characters and we published the results on this blog post. We created anonymous profiles for the fictional characters and asked Salary Fairy members to predict their salaries. If you have any questions about this project or Salary Fairy in general, I'm here to answer any questions. Thanks a lot!

I have an abandoned similar project at http://friendsincognito.com and you don't need an invitation. If anyone is interested, I'll open source it too.

I have been working on a salary crowdsourcing platform http://salaryfairy.com

After receiving great feedback from a show HN, we are glad to have been able to implement almost all of the suggestions we received from HN.

screenshot: http://salaryfairy.com/static/fairy/images/report_page_new.p...

This is in our future plans.

Thanks! We added a privacy clause stating that we store LinkenIn data. We are using python/django on a linux server from DigitalOcean.

Agreed! This is actually one of our goals: to create an opt-in program for our members to meet serious recruiters based on their salary prediction. We hope to give our members a fair starting point when talking to a recruiter. Thank you very much for the feedback.

Converted local currencies are now displayed besides $ amount. Thanks again for the feedback.

We added screenshots of the experience to the homepage. We are working on weighting algorithms. Thank you very much for the feedback.

You can now delete your account and all user data from settings page.

Thanks for your feedback. You are indeed seeing profiles only from Canada. You can change your settings to predict salaries from other countries. We will introduce filtering based on specific area in the future.

Thank you for your feedback. We will work on features for members who are curious about other locations.

Thank you very much, this is a great idea! We will definitely add a feature to opt-in to give your actual salary.

We won't, but we will make that promise explicitly on the homepage. Thanks for your feedback.

Excellent feedback! This is on our list now.

We will offer self account deletion shortly. Meanwhile, you can send us an email to request removal.

We will also introduce new ways to anonomize your company and education info. Thank you very much for your feedback.

We don't request the necessary permission from LinkedIn to send a message on behalf of you. We have no intention to spam, but we will put that promise explicitly on the homepage. Thanks for the feedback.

Thanks :) Scoring is one of the criteria we are looking into. We need to be careful not to bias predictions too much towards high scoring predictors. We are now filtering profiles by country. Once we get to a healthy user base, we will introduce more filtering options.

Yes. We display anonymous profiles to our users and aggregate their predictions. Predictions based on weighted criteria is coming soon.

Our site provides personalized salary predictions with wisdom of the crowds. We recently built a scoring feature where you get higher scores for good salary predictions. We would like to get your feedback.

We don't store who submitted which comment in the db. A comment is owned by all discussion participants. So, even though someone can tell which discussions you are in, nobody can tell which comment belongs to you.

We built Friends Incognito to offer a safe and open discussion environment. We'd love to hear your feedback.

We built this site as a social experiment side project and would love to hear your feedback.