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Show HN: Filter through all your FB friend's relationships - my weekend project
- kamkha 14y agoThank you for the preview of the app given before connecting with Facebook! I wish more applications which require connection to another service did this.
- splatzone 14y agoThis is cool. Now add age and sexual orientation filtering!
- maybe_someday 14y agoDoes anyone else find this quite a creepy concept?
- benjlang 14y agoIt's what Facebook was originally built for and then failed at making it easy to use...
- acoyfellow 14y agoI love your thinking, Ben. You are a problem solver. Well done!
- rkudeshi 14y agoIs it any different than going through all your friends' pages one-by-one? If it matched it with outside data (like Foursquare to see how often or when single friends go to bars or even identify which ones at which times), that would definitely be creepy. The problem with the similar "Girls Around Me" app from a few months ago was it used all public Facebook and Foursquare profiles. As far as I can tell, this is limited to your own friends.
- true_religion 14y agoI guess I must be the only person on HN who was curious how many of my highschool classmates are married and not single.
- commanda 14y agoUnfortunately, this web app reliably crashes Mobile Safari on my iPad 3. Perhaps the logic is done clientside over the set of all my ~1000 friends?
- benjlang 14y agoThanks, on it...
- altryne1 14y agoHey, yes the logic is all clientside, in fact there's no server side code here at all. I will look into the crashing issue asap. Thanx (on my 356 friends it works ok on ipad 2)
- alpb 14y agoThat's not your fault. No web app should be able to crash its browser. It is like a browser causes blue screen of death. If you figure out the reason write a blog post about it and send to Apple please. It happens while fetching friends stage, so I believe it could be about storing large data on client via js if you are doing so. Just saying. Wanna try that out when it is fixed! Cheers.
- Xcelerate 14y agoThe only reason I didn't try this is because when you use these apps it shows up as "so-and-so is using relationbook" and I don't want everybody to see that. I know there's a way to hide it, but I never trust that it hides it completely.
- zht 14y agoyou mis-spelled RelationBook as RelatiobBook in the authorization dialog
- altryne1 14y agoThanx! fixed
- udkl 14y agoIs http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/15/thedatable-launch/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/15/thedatable-launch/ the inspiration behind this ?
- benjlang 14y agoNope, we started building before we heard of it.
- jc4p 14y agoUsed it for less than 3 minutes, got more than 10 "Share with your friends!" pop-ups that if you hit "no" on forgets the action you were trying to perform before it showed the pop-up. Very annoying.
- benjlang 14y agoSorry we will fix that asap.
- michaelhoffman 14y agoThis is restoring a feature that existed in circa 2005 Thefacebook. You could easily browse your friends in various relationship states. Many more people would actually set their status as "Single" back then too. Nowadays, in my friend circles, most single people just don't broadcast their relationship status.
- Kartificial 14y agoI see that friends are showed twice when they are in a relationship with another friend of you. So if I have two friends: A and B, they're listed twice like: A is in a relationship with B B is in a relationship with A Bit redundant imo.
- altryne1 14y agoIt is a bit, but it's important to have both of them there, so that you can accurately filter by gender. Also, If I would hide one of them, and then you search for that person, you won't get results
- tgrass 14y agoJust a heads up: "both of them" may be the same gender. Doesn't affect the app, just a note on the language.
- tlrobinson 14y agoIt keeps crashing Mobile Safari (5.1.1) for me.
- botolo 14y agoNice idea and great execution, congrats. I tried it for a while and I already discovered some friends who got married (and I was not aware of it) and some other friends who are not divorced. I would love your web app even more if it would provide me with a list of updated events. I don't check FB very often and it would be lovely to just use your service once in a while and see, in a glance, who got married, who got divorced, etc.
- Xion 14y agoWhile it doesn't cover all the relationship status changes, the Break-up Notifier (http://www.breakupnotifier.com/ http://www.breakupnotifier.com/) provides part of that functionality. Arguably the most useful part :)
- Albuca 14y agoI also have the same issue with it crashing. Safari on the iPhone (5.1.1) - Starts to load Friends - Screen goes to black as the app is terminated Also, it does not load at all on Chrome for iPhone (the main site loads, but nothing happens after you click on the "Lets Go" button; besides opening a new tab).
- philfreo 14y agoNeeds an age filter
- Nick5a1 14y agoNice job, and in particular it looks great. Is the design a template or did you make it from scratch? If so where did your inspiration come from?
- blantonl 14y agoFYI: Facebook's legal team really frowns upon any domain name that uses xxxxbook.xxx - you should expect to hear from them soon.
- brianobush 14y agoI don't really see a clear legal basis for this. is there any legal precedence?
- throwaway54-762 14y agoI assume they can revoke any app's access at any time, without legal action.
- abava 14y agocheck out http://servletsuite.com/fbdir/ http://servletsuite.com/fbdir/
- aneth4 14y agoNice weekend project. Fortunately for mankind (unfortunately for your app,) it seems most people (as scientifically sampled by my friend list) do not consider Facebook the canonical representation of their relationship status. An ex-girlfriend who recently was married still has her status as single (not making that up.) Personally I never have, and never will, assign a facebook status to my relationships unless I am married. Interestingly, the once popular "open relationship" status now has zero takers in my friend list.