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First, let me say something I would not have said a few years ago... a new social network to meet people interested in the other things I do... awesome! I get

by rburhum 10y ago

First, let me say something I would not have said a few years ago... a new social network to meet people interested in the other things I do... awesome! I get why there is not a web version at first. Unlike most people, I dont see that as a deal breaker. I downloaded the app and tried it out. The good: I like the idea of limiting yourself to five personas. It made me sit down and think what I wanted out of this. See, FB has a big chunk of my social graph and meetup gives me access to events that are interesting to me. Reddit and HNs filter content that I find interesting. Nevertheless, as an engineer and startup founder, those mediums keep bombarding me with Startup/C++/Django/etc meetups/news and articles about scaling startups. All topics I like to read about. But there are other things I like that get overshadowed by this content. I like surfing and consider myself a curious foodie for example. That content does show up in those other mediums, but gets really overshadowed by the strength of my network around the other topics (be it my FB graph or meetups I keep an eye out for). Another network - concentrated on meeting other people that share these distinctly different personas is an interesting proposition. So I tried! The bad: It is empty once the setup was done. I dont see anything except the ability to add a photo for a persona. not sure that you can get away with this. Also, you made me type information that was available somewhere else. Why??? Think of it this way, even if Gitlab is competing with GitHub, they let you log in with your GitHub account. Do this. Import the information from FB, G+, or whatever other place that already has this info... Anyway, I'll keep an eye out to see how this plays out. Update: I see content now. It has an Instagramish feel

toyg 10y ago
> Import the information from FB, G+ I expect that would be against TOS and would result in an immediate ban.
- rburhum 10y ago
  Wow, did not know that. Is there something in the TOS that prohibits importing Name, location, profile photo for that use case?
- palakchokshi 10y ago
  Not if as part of sign in the app asks permission to get that information. That is how all oAuth logins from FB to Google to LinkedIn to Github work. You ask for permission to get exactly what you want and once granted the app can get that information without violating any TOS or getting banned
  - toyg 10y ago
    It's not the gathering per se, it's what you do with it. When I checked their platform policies (admittedly several years ago), they explicitly forbid other social networks from using FB-provided logins and data. This seems to have changed, and at the moment I can't find anything of the sort in their current platform policies; but there is a "no reimplementation" clause that is so broad, it could easily be used to ban apps that reimplement anything FB already offers (friending, image sharing etc etc).
f2net 10y ago
You may like www.tagschat.com too: it is the same concept, but web based. We are releasing the new version (exiting beta) in a few days: stay tuned! Meanwhile, you can subscribe and look around :)
flatline 10y ago
> It is empty once the setup was done. I set everything up, there was no content for any of the personas, I closed the app and will likely never open it again.
mkarazin 10y ago
If you love the idea of connecting people interested in similar things, check out a startup I'm working on. http://getreveel.com/ http://getreveel.com/ We are still in progress of building out the smarts of it, tying people together and suggesting new activities, as well as UX issues in signup (current sprint focused on these). Still young but we'd love you to check it out. It's focused for the Chicago market, will open up other cities soon.

by rburhum 10y ago

toyg 10y ago

> Import the information from FB, G+ I expect that would be against TOS and would result in an immediate ban.

rburhum 10y ago
Wow, did not know that. Is there something in the TOS that prohibits importing Name, location, profile photo for that use case?
palakchokshi 10y ago
Not if as part of sign in the app asks permission to get that information. That is how all oAuth logins from FB to Google to LinkedIn to Github work. You ask for permission to get exactly what you want and once granted the app can get that information without violating any TOS or getting banned
- toyg 10y ago
  It's not the gathering per se, it's what you do with it. When I checked their platform policies (admittedly several years ago), they explicitly forbid other social networks from using FB-provided logins and data. This seems to have changed, and at the moment I can't find anything of the sort in their current platform policies; but there is a "no reimplementation" clause that is so broad, it could easily be used to ban apps that reimplement anything FB already offers (friending, image sharing etc etc).

f2net 10y ago

You may like www.tagschat.com too: it is the same concept, but web based. We are releasing the new version (exiting beta) in a few days: stay tuned! Meanwhile, you can subscribe and look around :)

flatline 10y ago

> It is empty once the setup was done. I set everything up, there was no content for any of the personas, I closed the app and will likely never open it again.

mkarazin 10y ago

If you love the idea of connecting people interested in similar things, check out a startup I'm working on. http://getreveel.com/ http://getreveel.com/ We are still in progress of building out the smarts of it, tying people together and suggesting new activities, as well as UX issues in signup (current sprint focused on these). Still young but we'd love you to check it out. It's focused for the Chicago market, will open up other cities soon.