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by dougk16 8y ago
Here's a real minimal stats page I created: https://aytwit.com/stats Short answer: 22 matches so far from this HN post. I suspect most of these were people testing it out, but who knows maybe there were some real ones?
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by dougk16 8y ago
Quite possibly! I never anticipated getting to the front page with anything so I don't know what to expect. Let me know if it eventually came through.
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by dougk16 8y ago
I noticed people having this problem. Not sure what to do about it. :( Going to look into it more.
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by dougk16 8y ago
To get the most out of a native app, I would want to do client-side encryption/hashing (right now the server sees plaintext for a millisecond, just like most servers treat passwords), and use mobile notifications instead of email, for
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by dougk16 8y ago
Note that hints can also simply be "who sent the thought" and not the hashtag or anything. Doesn't directly address your point, just another way to use the service. See https://aytwit.com/thoughter#hints for
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by dougk16 8y ago
I couldn't think of any more powerful examples than those. I might wish otherwise, but if Thoughter does become popular it seems like it would be, if I may be blunt, off the backs of teenagers and/or college kids looking to hook u
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by dougk16 8y ago
Perhaps https://aytwit.com/thoughter#hints addresses your game theoretic concerns?
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by dougk16 8y ago
As weird as it sounds, I'm the author and I kind of agree with you. I feel like Steve Jobs selling iPads but not letting his kids use them lol. Not to say I think someone is wrong or immature to use the service. Indeed I came up with t
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by dougk16 8y ago
Agreed in full. I was thinking a dropdown of common hashtags. It's sort of a chicken and egg problem so far though, in that I don't know what common hashtags would be. Maybe I'll just use those that are examples on the front
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by dougk16 8y ago
There is at least a confirmation email step. Otherwise hehe your worries on spam do echo mine. So far I've just been ignoring that aspect and leaving it open. Honestly I don't know how any web service that ultimately sends transac
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by dougk16 8y ago
Forgot to reply to this initially. Those links are much appreciated. Thoughter can be used for this kind of thing right now, although the UI/UX needs improvement to facilitate such "list matching" use cases.
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by dougk16 8y ago
It may not be obvious, but you could use Thoughter for this right now! The UI/UX isn't totally there yet, but you could simply send off let's say 10 thoughts to your SO about something really intimate like sexual preferences,
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by dougk16 8y ago
I like this comment and the two replies. It shows the two sides of the coin. When I came up with this idea initially in 2003, I was the kind of person who would use this service. Nowadays I'm more in line with your thinking. But I don&
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by dougk16 8y ago
It may sound either harsh or naive, but seriously my only strategy right now is to just hope that people using the service don't feel that way. If I understand your point, I personally (or someone working for the service) would have to
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by dougk16 8y ago
Just to fix possible confusion, there's no "reveal" step here. The recipient has to guess who sent the hint (if there's a hint). And with no hint, both parties have to spontaneously use the service with the same hashtag.
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by dougk16 8y ago
That sounds like both a good way to both monetize and rate limit spam guessing. I'm not seeing where OP suggested this idea, so I'm crediting you! Thanks. Or maybe I'm OP?
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by dougk16 8y ago
Thanks! I spent a lot of time on it for just that reason, being as transparent as possible. Here's the link in case others are wondering what you're talking about: https://aytwit.com/sql
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by dougk16 8y ago
Nope! Beyond a lot of clicking :)
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by dougk16 8y ago
How would I go about that? I'm just a clueless engineer. What little I know of how the world works, is that they would just steal the idea if it were really attractive to them, and maybe give me a free T-shirt. Am I too jaded?
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by dougk16 8y ago
Great question. One answer is that it gives the recipient plausible deniability (I think I'm using that term right, sorta). They have the power to not respond even though they probably know who the sender is. And if they don't try
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by dougk16 8y ago
> This will get abused by spammers, even with email confirmations. Could you elaborate? I have vague worries since there's not a captcha or anything. But I can't think of an attack or abuse beyond a DoS-type thing, and I don&
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by dougk16 8y ago
This post has driven the only real usage since I finished this about a year ago, and I'm guessing most of the connections so far are people just testing it out.
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by dougk16 8y ago
Woah great feedback, I will definitely use some of this. I'll ping you again privately when I make some changes, just so you know I'm not blowing smoke. ;) The opening line "The first project out of Aytwit's software res
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by dougk16 8y ago
Thank you for taking the time to do that. I hope you don't mind, I may have to steal some of that when I eventually do some tweaks to make it more modern. :)
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by dougk16 8y ago
The recipient of the hint #reunite has to guess the identity of the person who sent the hint. It is never simply revealed in this case. To add to the confusion ;) there is another type of hint that only reveals the identity and not the ha
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by dougk16 8y ago
Wow I had thought briefly of the "missed connection" case but never could work out the details. Your post makes me think there could be a way, if there were some standardized version of a "thought" that goes beyond the h
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by dougk16 8y ago
> If you send hints like "someone wants to #reunite" I'm sure the recipient will accept just to find out who the person is regardless of what their offline intentions are. Since your identity is revealed anyway I don&#x27
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by dougk16 8y ago
Woah crazy! How much you selling that domain for? ;) There's actually a patent from the mid-90's that basically describes the same idea that we both came up with: https://patents.google.com/patent/US5117358A&#
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by dougk16 8y ago
Definitely not your bad. I've been in the game long enough to know people don't read things! (No offense to you personally). I tried linking to that "hint" anchor tag in the first paragraph but even that is expecting too
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by dougk16 8y ago
Yup email support was just the proof of concept. Definitely agree that it will need to go beyond. In fact if I make a native app then mobile notifications can be the communication medium itself.

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