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Tinder-like application for gifs built with Elm

61 points by matthieu-b 11y ago

tantalor 11y ago
"Login with Facebook" No thanks.
concernedctzn 11y ago
Sounds like a fun little side project, would appreciate a screenshot (or a gif of how it works) in your readme
pyeng 11y ago
You might want to add a demo / features page, that allows you to try the thing out, look at the main features, without having to login with Facebook. Because I can tell you this now: No one in this crowd (tech/geek) will login with Facebook.
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- fuzzywalrus 11y ago
  Exactly my first thought, I immediately bailed at the FaceBook login. Perhaps accounts outside of Facebook?
  - matthieu-b 11y ago
    I quickly created a signup/login form, you should be able to try now
dopamean 11y ago
>Gipher has the main features we can find in any modern single page application: >facebook authentication What? Authentication with Facebook is a "main feature" of modern single page apps? I'm not on Facebook and so there are all sorts of things I cant use that require auth with Facebook. This little app does not seem like something that needs Facebook auth to work.
- derefr 11y ago
  Not the creator, but at a guess (from seeing a lot of apps that do this): the app doesn't strictly require Facebook in particular—but requiring a Facebook account is a popular and simple proxy-method of deduplicating your users so that people can't vote multiple times. Basically, it's a very cheap KYC solution, on about the same level as domain-verification for TLS certs. I've been thinking for a while of creating a service that's specifically and only for this—an OAuth provider that gets your personal details the way Facebook does and enforces one-account-per-person, but then doesn't actually transmit your identiity to the site using it for OAuth. You, as an app developer, get to know each of your accounts represents a unique human, but don't get to know anything else about those humans. Alternately, the OAuth provider could be set up so that each human can have multiple pseudonymous accounts on your service (picking at OAuth login time which one they want to use), allowing for creation of cheap "throwaway accounts"—while still giving the site the ability to ban an abusive human altogether, without knowing enough to link the accounts together. To the site, it'd simply look like they ban one account (as an OAuth provider API call), and then the other accounts just never sign on again.
  - EGreg 11y ago
    The best way to prevent rigged voting is not to let the users select what's being voted on out of a large pool. Polling is better!
  - cloudjacker 11y ago
    Clef does this. I implemented it in an app as a proof of concept.
seddona 11y ago
Great work, would love to try this out but I'm not going to link my Facebook to a random app.
- learc83 11y ago
  Facebook will tell you what the app has access to before you give it permission. I tried it, and it only has access to your public profile information, which is already publicly available anyway.
  - duaneb 11y ago
    Yea, but before there was nothing easy to tie this app and the public profile. Now there's no choice but to tie the two.
    - learc83 11y ago
      What are you attempting to avoid? What's the risk that you're trying to mitigate? Were you planning on signing up with an anonymous email?
      - diggan 11y ago
        As a non-facebook user, I would enjoy just being able to try the service. Email I have so that would be enough for me and I guess a lot of other people as well.
      - duaneb 11y ago
        I wasn't planning on signing up at all—to my knowledge, nothing about this single-page-app requires a session at all. The risk here is that I don't want the app creator to know my name. It's that simple—I don't know them, I don't trust them, I trust them less now that they ask for completely unnecessary information. Let's say traffic to this site is linked with lower credit scores: it's naturally absurd that the two are causally related, but it's a reality that I have zero control over how my traffic data relates to how companies use it. All I can do is reduce my traffic data from getting into their hands where I can help it.
learc83 11y ago
I don't see any problem with required a Facebook login for this. It's supposed to be a toy "Tinder like" side project, and Tinder requires a Facebook login. It also only requires access to your public profile information.
arbre 11y ago
You should allow people to delete their profile.
pauljohncleary 11y ago
wow, literally every comment is about facebook login seriously guys come on I really like this! It seems your "mobile first" design is "mobile only", you might want to make gifs show up as their actual size on bigger screens, the square chops them off at the sides sometimes Are you going to use the likes to show me personalised gifs?
- diggan 11y ago
  I would love to give feedback but I can't even try the application, maybe that's why the comment section here is filled with comments related to Facebook... I'm not the only one who wants to try it out.
  - learc83 11y ago
    Apparently the guy didn't want to go through the hassle of implementing a login system and the dependencies that involves (ability to send password reset emails mainly). If I were you, I'd make a fake facebook profile just for situations like this.
  - matthieu-b 11y ago
    You should be able to try it out now!
mrcactu5 11y ago
#1 huge fan of Elm -- was this build with start-app?? #2 i used the app and noticed you can collect data to build discriminant classifier. Even simpler - a Naive Bayes classifier since outcome is binary - Like / Dislike #3 (continuation of #2) how many users do you have? to estimate data
- vijayr 11y ago
  No clue about elm - could you please share why it is good? Wow, there are so many JS libraries today - even just making a list is a big task in itself :(
  - learc83 11y ago
    Elms isn't a JS library, it's a completely separate language that happens to compile to JS.
  - a-saleh 11y ago
    Well, good is a subjective term, but this demo of its debugger [1] certainly peaked my interest :) I even has live examples with hot-swapable code (that is opensource if you'd like touse it.) But it is not a library. So if you would want a list of pros/cons you'd need to compare it to other compile-to-js languages. Its purpose seems to be creating reactive web-based UI. Basic building block is converting event-stream of user input into an event-stream of html, simplest example probably were [2] Ok, it might be web-gl as well :) And it is type-checked if that is your jam, but has decent type inference if you don't like writing types explicitly. [1] http://elm-lang.org/blog/time-travel-made-easy http://elm-lang.org/blog/time-travel-made-easy [2] http://elm-lang.org/examples/mouse-position http://elm-lang.org/examples/mouse-position
greenspot 11y ago
Why the FB login? I hit Command-w in the second I saw the FB login without any demo or feature section. Good luck with your bounce rate.
- matthieu-b 11y ago
  You can re-open a tab now an try it out, I just added a username/password login
_pmf_ 11y ago
Interface would probably be nice for a Reddit client.
a_imho 11y ago
page is empty (Iceweasel, Linux)
- rjeli 11y ago
  Page is also empty for me, vanilla Firefox on Linux
d0lph 11y ago
http://itsthisforthat.com/ http://itsthisforthat.com/ It's like tinder for gifs
matthieu-b 11y ago
Thanks for the feedbacks, just added a login with username/password
maxthegeek1 11y ago
looks good! huge fan of elm. might want to fix the flickering in the gifs though. they appear to load twice.
- matthieu-b 11y ago
  Thanks! Indeed there are a lot of things to fix/improve! It was only supposed to be a simple project to build something with elm, but it looks like people actually like it. I'll try to fix all these things really soon!
EMRo 11y ago
so...imgur?

61 points by matthieu-b 11y ago

tantalor 11y ago

"Login with Facebook" No thanks.

concernedctzn 11y ago

Sounds like a fun little side project, would appreciate a screenshot (or a gif of how it works) in your readme

pyeng 11y ago

You might want to add a demo / features page, that allows you to try the thing out, look at the main features, without having to login with Facebook. Because I can tell you this now: No one in this crowd (tech/geek) will login with Facebook.

deleted 11y ago
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fuzzywalrus 11y ago
Exactly my first thought, I immediately bailed at the FaceBook login. Perhaps accounts outside of Facebook?
- matthieu-b 11y ago
  I quickly created a signup/login form, you should be able to try now

dopamean 11y ago

>Gipher has the main features we can find in any modern single page application: >facebook authentication What? Authentication with Facebook is a "main feature" of modern single page apps? I'm not on Facebook and so there are all sorts of things I cant use that require auth with Facebook. This little app does not seem like something that needs Facebook auth to work.

derefr 11y ago
Not the creator, but at a guess (from seeing a lot of apps that do this): the app doesn't strictly require Facebook in particular—but requiring a Facebook account is a popular and simple proxy-method of deduplicating your users so that people can't vote multiple times. Basically, it's a very cheap KYC solution, on about the same level as domain-verification for TLS certs. I've been thinking for a while of creating a service that's specifically and only for this—an OAuth provider that gets your personal details the way Facebook does and enforces one-account-per-person, but then doesn't actually transmit your identiity to the site using it for OAuth. You, as an app developer, get to know each of your accounts represents a unique human, but don't get to know anything else about those humans. Alternately, the OAuth provider could be set up so that each human can have multiple pseudonymous accounts on your service (picking at OAuth login time which one they want to use), allowing for creation of cheap "throwaway accounts"—while still giving the site the ability to ban an abusive human altogether, without knowing enough to link the accounts together. To the site, it'd simply look like they ban one account (as an OAuth provider API call), and then the other accounts just never sign on again.
- EGreg 11y ago
  The best way to prevent rigged voting is not to let the users select what's being voted on out of a large pool. Polling is better!
- cloudjacker 11y ago
  Clef does this. I implemented it in an app as a proof of concept.

seddona 11y ago

Great work, would love to try this out but I'm not going to link my Facebook to a random app.

learc83 11y ago
Facebook will tell you what the app has access to before you give it permission. I tried it, and it only has access to your public profile information, which is already publicly available anyway.
- duaneb 11y ago
  Yea, but before there was nothing easy to tie this app and the public profile. Now there's no choice but to tie the two.
  - learc83 11y ago
    What are you attempting to avoid? What's the risk that you're trying to mitigate? Were you planning on signing up with an anonymous email?
    - diggan 11y ago
      As a non-facebook user, I would enjoy just being able to try the service. Email I have so that would be enough for me and I guess a lot of other people as well.
    - duaneb 11y ago
      I wasn't planning on signing up at all—to my knowledge, nothing about this single-page-app requires a session at all. The risk here is that I don't want the app creator to know my name. It's that simple—I don't know them, I don't trust them, I trust them less now that they ask for completely unnecessary information. Let's say traffic to this site is linked with lower credit scores: it's naturally absurd that the two are causally related, but it's a reality that I have zero control over how my traffic data relates to how companies use it. All I can do is reduce my traffic data from getting into their hands where I can help it.

learc83 11y ago

I don't see any problem with required a Facebook login for this. It's supposed to be a toy "Tinder like" side project, and Tinder requires a Facebook login. It also only requires access to your public profile information.

arbre 11y ago

You should allow people to delete their profile.

pauljohncleary 11y ago

wow, literally every comment is about facebook login seriously guys come on I really like this! It seems your "mobile first" design is "mobile only", you might want to make gifs show up as their actual size on bigger screens, the square chops them off at the sides sometimes Are you going to use the likes to show me personalised gifs?

diggan 11y ago
I would love to give feedback but I can't even try the application, maybe that's why the comment section here is filled with comments related to Facebook... I'm not the only one who wants to try it out.
- learc83 11y ago
  Apparently the guy didn't want to go through the hassle of implementing a login system and the dependencies that involves (ability to send password reset emails mainly). If I were you, I'd make a fake facebook profile just for situations like this.
- matthieu-b 11y ago
  You should be able to try it out now!

mrcactu5 11y ago

#1 huge fan of Elm -- was this build with start-app?? #2 i used the app and noticed you can collect data to build discriminant classifier. Even simpler - a Naive Bayes classifier since outcome is binary - Like / Dislike #3 (continuation of #2) how many users do you have? to estimate data

vijayr 11y ago
No clue about elm - could you please share why it is good? Wow, there are so many JS libraries today - even just making a list is a big task in itself :(
- learc83 11y ago
  Elms isn't a JS library, it's a completely separate language that happens to compile to JS.
- a-saleh 11y ago
  Well, good is a subjective term, but this demo of its debugger [1] certainly peaked my interest :) I even has live examples with hot-swapable code (that is opensource if you'd like touse it.) But it is not a library. So if you would want a list of pros/cons you'd need to compare it to other compile-to-js languages. Its purpose seems to be creating reactive web-based UI. Basic building block is converting event-stream of user input into an event-stream of html, simplest example probably were [2] Ok, it might be web-gl as well :) And it is type-checked if that is your jam, but has decent type inference if you don't like writing types explicitly. [1] http://elm-lang.org/blog/time-travel-made-easy http://elm-lang.org/blog/time-travel-made-easy [2] http://elm-lang.org/examples/mouse-position http://elm-lang.org/examples/mouse-position

greenspot 11y ago

Why the FB login? I hit Command-w in the second I saw the FB login without any demo or feature section. Good luck with your bounce rate.

matthieu-b 11y ago
You can re-open a tab now an try it out, I just added a username/password login

_pmf_ 11y ago

Interface would probably be nice for a Reddit client.

a_imho 11y ago

page is empty (Iceweasel, Linux)

rjeli 11y ago
Page is also empty for me, vanilla Firefox on Linux

d0lph 11y ago

http://itsthisforthat.com/ http://itsthisforthat.com/ It's like tinder for gifs

matthieu-b 11y ago

Thanks for the feedbacks, just added a login with username/password

maxthegeek1 11y ago

looks good! huge fan of elm. might want to fix the flickering in the gifs though. they appear to load twice.

matthieu-b 11y ago
Thanks! Indeed there are a lot of things to fix/improve! It was only supposed to be a simple project to build something with elm, but it looks like people actually like it. I'll try to fix all these things really soon!

EMRo 11y ago

so...imgur?