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by gailees 14y ago
Our new pivot doesn't include any of the encouragement against the spirit of the Facebook platform or the fake "defriend all" button that our original app contained.
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by gailees 14y ago
TIME decided to write about our shift from Buddy Hack to Hack My Facebook
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Site Lets You Simulate a Facebook Hack, Goes Viral at PennApps(techland.time.com)
16 points by gailees 14y ago|40 comments
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by gailees 14y ago
As much as I love Coursera, their statistics so far have shown that most of the students actually benefiting from their courses already have degrees and many even have graduate degrees. It's still great that people are pursuing more knowled
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by 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.
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by gailees 14y ago
Thanks for all the feedback...Be sure to check out http://hackmyfacebook.com
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by gailees 14y ago
I'm glad you like our change :)
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by gailees 14y ago
Fixing that one now. Must've missed that one whenever we tweaked the app.
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by gailees 14y ago
The only implicit post is when you use the unhack feature, and it lets your friends know that you hacked yourself.
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by 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.
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by 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.
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Show HN: Hack My Facebook - Most Viral App at PennApps(hackmyfacebook.com)
13 points by gailees 14y ago|18 comments
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by gailees 14y ago
Hellllll yeah
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by gailees 14y ago
Yeah...we've come to see that the language was encouraging behavior that was clearly against the spirit of the Facebook platform. We have since removed most of that language.
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by gailees 14y ago
For sure...we removed it right after we got the feedback from HN.
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by gailees 14y ago
Clarification: FB representatives here only ok'ed the use of our flavors concept, not the spirit of our app. While setting a facebook flavor alone isn't against the Facebook TOS, we realize that directly encouraging people to jump on their
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by gailees 14y ago
People just happen to be using it innapropriately.
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by gailees 14y ago
It's people taking actions on behalf of themselves.
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by gailees 14y ago
Truth^
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by gailees 14y ago
That button doesn't actually do that. It's a joke we added in.
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by gailees 14y ago
That option is a joke and isn't an actual option. If you click it we give you an alert: "you can't actually be that mean."
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by gailees 14y ago
yeah....someone reported us for our defriend all button; that button is actually a joke and just gives an alert "you can't actually be that mean"
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by gailees 14y ago
Click it....it tells you that you shouldn't be that mean.
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by gailees 14y ago
We just got reported by several users and got temporarily restricted on Facebook.
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by gailees 14y ago
That was exactly our aim.
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by gailees 14y ago
Thanks for the input...will get on that ASAP.
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by gailees 14y ago
Let's say your friend just left their Facebook logged in at your house or got up from their laptop to go to the bathroom for a minute. You're tempted to mess with their Facebook, but don't know where to start or don't have enough time. Just
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Show HN: BuddyHack - Mess with your friends' Facebooks(buddyhack.com)
25 points by gailees 14y ago|51 comments
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by gailees 14y ago
crazy that Stripe didn't already have this. So easy it ought to be illegal!
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by gailees 14y ago
This is awesome. So easy that I'm going to implement it in all my future projects.

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