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Show HN: Hack My Facebook - Most Viral App at PennApps

13 points by gailees 14y ago

borplk 14y ago
what does it do?
- gailees 14y ago
  It lets you pretend to hack your own facebook. We found that this is hilarious for both you and many of your close friends.
drivebyacct2 14y ago
I'm curious what the average login rate is, versus the average Hacker News login rate is. I don't mind using Facebook for login, but I do it cautiously. This, I'm a bit too nervous to try.
- gailees 14y ago
  We've done a few FB apps before and the avg CTR on splash page/home page usually comes out to anywhere from 10-30% We don't post anything without your explicit permission on the page following authentication.
  - dskang 14y ago
    "Disclaimer: This app can and will post a large amount of hilarious content from your Facebook account." This makes it seem like the app will post without my explicit permission.
    - gailees 14y ago
      The only implicit post is when you use the unhack feature, and it lets your friends know that you hacked yourself.
citricsquid 14y ago
(re-branding of: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529712 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529712)
gailees 14y ago
This is a tweak of BuddyHack, which we posted to HN earlier today. We had to tweak the site which was banned from Facebook originally.
crazypyro 14y ago
I like how you changed the app. Realistically, you could still use it on a friends facebook, but at least they can't say you are promoting it now...
- gailees 14y ago
  I'm glad you like our change :)
nbpoole 14y ago
> We don't post anything without your explicit permission on the page following authentication. Respectfully going to disagree on that one. The "Unhack" button doesn't seem to have removed any content from my profile but it did post a link on my timeline promoting the app (and using the old URL and name). Definitely not expected behavior. Mess With Your Friends | BuddyHack buddyhack.com "Sorry guys, I just got Buddyhacked. Whoever it was, I will find you, and I will get you back." There's a reason I use the 'Only Me' privacy for the few new apps that I add, and it's behavior like this. Luckily when you remove an app there's a check box to remove activities generated by that app.
- gailees 14y ago
  Fixing that one now. Must've missed that one whenever we tweaked the app.
alexelee 14y ago
Can see why this won Most Viral at the east coast's biggest hackathon!
cabogdan 14y ago
Ahh this is great!
Karunamon 14y ago
Just an FYI, if this gains any traction, you're going to have Facebook legal after you for using the word "facebook" in the app name - it happened to the Better Facebook folks (had to change their name to "social fixer") Because some moron could confuse the main site and this, I don't know. Lawyers ruin everything.
derwiki 14y ago
Reminds me of a site I made that has a similar background, but is personalized to your friends: http://friendgrid.heroku.com/ http://friendgrid.heroku.com/
- gailees 14y ago
  This is awesome, and we don't have to make our own. Next time, we are definitely using this as the background! Thanks for building this!
SchizoDuckie 14y ago
So.. What does it do? It's a bit of mystery meat. No demo, no screenshots, just 'hack my facebook'. Why would I click that to try something? You should really provide a demo or a clear explanation of what's going to happen instead of just 'hack my facebook'.

13 points by gailees 14y ago

borplk 14y ago

what does it do?

gailees 14y ago
It lets you pretend to hack your own facebook. We found that this is hilarious for both you and many of your close friends.

drivebyacct2 14y ago

I'm curious what the average login rate is, versus the average Hacker News login rate is. I don't mind using Facebook for login, but I do it cautiously. This, I'm a bit too nervous to try.

gailees 14y ago
We've done a few FB apps before and the avg CTR on splash page/home page usually comes out to anywhere from 10-30% We don't post anything without your explicit permission on the page following authentication.
- dskang 14y ago
  "Disclaimer: This app can and will post a large amount of hilarious content from your Facebook account." This makes it seem like the app will post without my explicit permission.
  - gailees 14y ago
    The only implicit post is when you use the unhack feature, and it lets your friends know that you hacked yourself.

citricsquid 14y ago

(re-branding of: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529712 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529712)

gailees 14y ago

This is a tweak of BuddyHack, which we posted to HN earlier today. We had to tweak the site which was banned from Facebook originally.

crazypyro 14y ago

I like how you changed the app. Realistically, you could still use it on a friends facebook, but at least they can't say you are promoting it now...

gailees 14y ago
I'm glad you like our change :)

nbpoole 14y ago

> We don't post anything without your explicit permission on the page following authentication. Respectfully going to disagree on that one. The "Unhack" button doesn't seem to have removed any content from my profile but it did post a link on my timeline promoting the app (and using the old URL and name). Definitely not expected behavior. Mess With Your Friends | BuddyHack buddyhack.com "Sorry guys, I just got Buddyhacked. Whoever it was, I will find you, and I will get you back." There's a reason I use the 'Only Me' privacy for the few new apps that I add, and it's behavior like this. Luckily when you remove an app there's a check box to remove activities generated by that app.

gailees 14y ago
Fixing that one now. Must've missed that one whenever we tweaked the app.

alexelee 14y ago

Can see why this won Most Viral at the east coast's biggest hackathon!

cabogdan 14y ago

Ahh this is great!

Karunamon 14y ago

Just an FYI, if this gains any traction, you're going to have Facebook legal after you for using the word "facebook" in the app name - it happened to the Better Facebook folks (had to change their name to "social fixer") Because some moron could confuse the main site and this, I don't know. Lawyers ruin everything.

derwiki 14y ago

Reminds me of a site I made that has a similar background, but is personalized to your friends: http://friendgrid.heroku.com/ http://friendgrid.heroku.com/

gailees 14y ago
This is awesome, and we don't have to make our own. Next time, we are definitely using this as the background! Thanks for building this!

SchizoDuckie 14y ago

So.. What does it do? It's a bit of mystery meat. No demo, no screenshots, just 'hack my facebook'. Why would I click that to try something? You should really provide a demo or a clear explanation of what's going to happen instead of just 'hack my facebook'.