RelationBook
Consumer and social
social network browsing
SHOW HN2012
How HN took it
3 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 10 critical, out of 26 comments about the project. Thread score -0.31.
Design: 2 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 3 againstPerformance: 0 for, 3 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Good design and execution
From 2 comments
Nice idea and great execution, congrats. I tried it for a while and I already discovered some friends who got married (and I was not aware of it) and some other friends who are…
botolo on HNNice job, and in particular it looks great. Is the design a template or did you make it from scratch? If so where did your inspiration come from?
Nick5a1 on HN
Shows a preview before connecting to Facebook
From 1 comment
Thank you for the preview of the app given before connecting with Facebook! I wish more applications which require connection to another service did this.
kamkha on HN
Objections
Crashes mobile Safari when loading friends
From 3 comments
Unfortunately, this web app reliably crashes Mobile Safari on my iPad 3. Perhaps the logic is done clientside over the set of all my ~1000 friends?
commanda on HNI also have the same issue with it crashing. Safari on the iPhone (5.1.1) - Starts to load Friends - Screen goes to black as the app is terminated Also, it does not load at all…
Albuca on HNIt keeps crashing Mobile Safari (5.1.1) for me.
tlrobinson on HN
Creepy concept
From 1 comment
Does anyone else find this quite a creepy concept?
maybe_someday on HN
Privacy concern that friends' use is shown publicly
From 1 comment
The only reason I didn't try this is because when you use these apps it shows up as "so-and-so is using relationbook" and I don't want everybody to see that. I know there's a way…
Xcelerate on HN
Share pop-ups interrupt use
From 1 comment
Used it for less than 3 minutes, got more than 10 "Share with your friends!" pop-ups that if you hit "no" on forgets the action you were trying to perform before it showed the…
jc4p on HN
Duplicate listings for friend pairs
From 1 comment
I see that friends are showed twice when they are in a relationship with another friend of you. So if I have two friends: A and B, they're listed twice like: A is in a…
Kartificial on HN
Requests
Add age filter
From 2 comments
Needs an age filter
philfreo on HNThis is cool. Now add age and sexual orientation filtering!
splatzone on HN
Show updated relationship events
From 1 comment
Nice idea and great execution, congrats. I tried it for a while and I already discovered some friends who got married (and I was not aware of it) and some other friends who are…
botolo on HN
Questions
Was it inspired by TheDatable
From 1 comment
Is http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/15/thedatable-launch/ the inspiration behind this ?
udkl on HN
Alternatives named
Break-up Notifier
From 1 comment
While it doesn't cover all the relationship status changes, the Break-up Notifier (http://www.breakupnotifier.com/) provides part of that functionality. Arguably the most useful…
Xion on HN
Girls Around Me
From 1 comment
Is it any different than going through all your friends' pages one-by-one? If it matched it with outside data (like Foursquare to see how often or when single friends go to bars…
rkudeshi on HN
servletsuite fbdir
From 1 comment
check out http://servletsuite.com/fbdir/
abava on HN