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Verifying myself: I am samvit on Keybase.io. E0GrCyY4tU1TxOQcu3uy06HHvFE9ZWZRF7EI / https://keybase.io/samvit/sigs/E0GrCyY4tU1TxOQcu3uy06HHvFE9ZWZRF7EI
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rsamvit··on Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS
We've gotten this request many times now, so expect an integration soon!
rsamvit··on Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS
Yes, that was a screenshot from an earlier version. As of right now, only age/gender/location are used, though we use your education history to train our model for smarter recommendations.

We are toying with the idea of putting back the school displaying feature back in if you encounter someone from the same school. It will depend on the data we gather.

rsamvit··on Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS
We're from UC Berkeley
rsamvit··on Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS
We fixed it! there was a race condition in the code we hadn't noticed
rsamvit··on Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS
We'll get on that soon. Stay tuned!
rsamvit··on Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS
Your name is never disclosed - all the other person sees is your age, gender, and city.
rsamvit··on Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS
Thats what I said ;)
rsamvit··on Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS
Good Point! We'll definitely be adding that in - Sorry if you got surprised.
rsamvit··on Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS
We agree! We're working on those features and hopefully will be rolling them out soon.
rsamvit··on Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS
Actually we have hundreds of users chatting, and we're growing fast! Facebook only refreshes its numbers once every 24 hours, so if you check back again later you'll see more updated results.

We've been focusing on several different distribution strategies, and we have a strong user base of college students as well.

rsamvit··on Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS
Its in the works! This is definitely something we're going to do, but we decided to perfect our launch in the US first before we start accommodating international phones. Stay tuned!
rsamvit··on Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS
Thanks for letting us know! We'll remember to fix that.
rsamvit··on Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS
Haha thats amazing! Glad you enjoy it.
rsamvit··on Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS
thanks for the support!
rsamvit··on Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS
Pretty much! Except with intelligent recommendations :)
rsamvit··on Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS
Thanks for your feedback! We use facebook login because its the easiest way for us to get the basic data to provide intelligent recommendations.

We have plans to roll out a separate stand-alone login soon, where you can fill out a profile with whatever information you choose to include

rsamvit··on Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS
Thanks for the feedback! We'll fix that right away.
rsamvit··on Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS
We tell all people three Pieces of Information:

1. Your Gender

2. Your Age

3. Your location (City, State)

Thats all! Everything else is private.

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