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For API Hack Day in San Francisco (https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/api-hackday-sf-2013/hacks/ranker https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/api-hackday-

by jsingh 13y ago

For API Hack Day in San Francisco (https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/api-hackday-sf-2013/hacks/ranker https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/api-hackday-sf-2013/...), we created ranker.io (http://ranker.io http://ranker.io). A bot named 'epicchallenge' programmatically sends a snapchat video about a "smile" contest to a huge (42k) list of users. Then we programmatically get their responses and have people vote on them.

DanBC 13y ago
How do you get the 42k list of users? Looks like a fun idea!
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  - thattallguy 13y ago
    Woah, woah woah. So by entering my username into snapgraph to "explore my snap chat network" aka see an animation of my top friends, I'm opting into your bullshit spam contest app, and anything else you plan on making? Not a smart move dudes. My trust in anything you else make = Zero. I'm I wrong here?
    - tehwebguy 13y ago
      In case anyone is wondering, the deleted comment that thattallguy replied to explained how they built something along the lines of a "friends network visualizer" and abused their users' trust.
      - BinRoo 13y ago
        Try it out for yourself http://snapchat.com/<username> http://snapchat.com/<username>
      - genwin 13y ago
        They created Facebook?
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    - vivpan 13y ago
      Sorry about that. We had some miscommunication internally. We used publicly available usernames.
      - untog 13y ago
        Uh huh.