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Show HN: Adult Cat Finder
- dylangs1030 14y agoI'm being completely honest when I say my first thought upon reading the name was "Adult Friend Finder". Why did you choose a name so close to that?
- mehrzad 14y agoI think it's part of the joke.
- mmanfrin 14y agoI assume because that is what it was based off of. Click 'try' -- it opens up a 'cam' of a cat, with a fake chat. It's specifically modeled after AFF.
- dylangs1030 14y agoAh....I see now.
- supercoder 14y agoI'd be very interested to know what exactly you think this website is.
- shloime 14y agoHysterical. I knew what was coming, but it still beat expectations.
- harapkim 14y agogood laugh
- Pwnguinz 14y agoI was actually expecting a cat adoption site. What a let down. Perhaps it's not too late to steer the ship in a different direction, yet ;)?
- adamnemecek 14y agoI was expecting the same thing. Then I got curious whether someone did something like this for pet adoption sites. Turns out that someone has http://www.petfinder.com/developers/api-key http://www.petfinder.com/developers/api-key
- sitharus 14y agoYou're missing the 'Cats in <name of city> are waiting for you!', with the name of a city ~800km from where you are.
- rachelbythebay 14y ago"Cats in TOR EXIT NODE are waiting for you!" "Cats in BOEING EARTH STATION are waiting for you!"
- mkopinsky 14y agoI usually get "Cats in US-East-1 are waiting for you!"
- ajasmin 14y ago$.ajax({url:"http://freegeoip.net/json", dataType:"json"}) .done(function(data){$('#city').text(data.city)}); freegeoip.net seems to send the "Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *" header which allows the cross-domain ajax call. Picking a city ~800km from where you are is an exercise left for the reader.
- fountainla 14y agoThis is great. We initially had it in PHP server side, but didn't want to slow down the process. Having it lazy load via ajax is a great idea.
- fountainla 14y agoWe had this in initially server-side, but took it out to account for a rush. Someone posted a JS solution below, we might integrate that!
- supercoder 14y agoAre the cats bored ?
- shitlord 14y agoREAL bored cats in your area want so desperately to meet YOU!
- lem72 14y agoThis is amazing. This would be even more amazing if you coded in responses to certain words. Have it parse entered strings and if they mention the word Tuna have a picture of a cat licking it's lips. Dog = Cat running away Etc. Great job.
- cpursley 14y agoBest hacker news app all year, even better than harlem shaker thing.
- fountainla 14y agoThanks!
- xrd 14y agoI wish I could find shaved cats using this service.
- ajasmin 14y agoBug: After opening the chat window once and closing it, clicking the "Try it out" button a second time doesn't work. Do I have to subscribe in order to use it again?
- fountainla 14y agoJust a bug in our site's JS. Working on fixing it up! In the meantime, a refresh will do.
- orangethirty 14y agoMeowtiful. Just Purrrfect.
- artmageddon 14y agoThank you so much for making this, it's hysterical!
- wcfields 14y agoCan't wait to see this with more cats and reaction to keywords: ruff, bark, bowwow, dog will cause the cat to flee away.
- jgeorge 14y agoThis goes up there on the short list of Show HN sites that I share with friends that would get the joke. Well done!