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10 points by andyhin ↗ HN
Just finished this over the last few weekends, wanted to get this in front of a few users.

A few things:

- There are no users as of me posting this.

- Add "Hacker News" to your interests once you've signed up. It'll allow us to see each other.

- You will only see other users with similar interests.

- Only common interests will be revealed.

Let me know any feedback/suggestions/bugs/idea sucks, etc.

18 comments

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nyellin
Cool. I think meeting new people (not necessarily for dating) is one area that social networks still haven't perfected. I predict that interest-based social networks will gain popularity as people grow tired of their junk-ridden Facebook feeds and start to look for people they can communicate with about topics they care about, rather than topics that their friends care about.
nmaio
Agreed. But it's hard because most people are one way communicators. They truly don't listen to the other person they're interacting with; instead they just want to get around to talking about themselves. Actually, that's why Facebook and Twitter work so well - they're self-broadcasting stations.
nyellin
Why does your app need access to my pictures and videos? That creeps me out.
andyhin
Good point. I actually added that in because I initially wanted to allow users to select which profile picture they wanted to use. But I decided to drop that feature for the MVP. I've updated the FB permission request.
octal
No programmers have signed up yet. :/
mikerhoads
Cool idea, seems like facebook makes their recommendations based only on mutual friends, which is great for connecting to other friends or people in your network. This interest based approach would do a better job of meeting brand new people altogether.
silent1mezzo
When setting dates and stuff the Year and Day fields are switched...
Limes102
I think showing only the people who have a mutual interest is good, but I disagree with hiding the rest of their interests with people who are actually able to view their profile.

Perhaps think of it more the 'Like' button on Facebook

notintokyo
I spent way too long trying to get my likes to conform to allowed characters. It doesn't like periods in them or unicode characters, so I had delete 30% of my likes.
andyhin
Thanks for the feedback. Had a few users report this :(

I'll try to address this later today...

znt
Whoah I logged in using FB and it converted my surname from 'Başçıl' to 'Başçıl'. I can't even read the new version let alone pronounce it. And I cannot edit the field, it's grayed out.
andyhin
Thanks for letting me know. I'll try to look into this tonight.
irrationaljared
Nice, I like the idea. I've been exploring something similar on http://www.thematchinggame.com (it's only visible after you register), but I think there's a lot of room for an interest specific site, especially one that's not focused on dating.

I would suggest giving people a little more to play with up front. I'm hugely against not engaging people in some way at the start. There is the curiosity factor with a blank sign up page, but from my experience with various sites (http://about.me/jaredcosulich), giving people something to play with without registering does a lot better.

andyhin
Dude, love your site! Great concept.