GraphMuse
Web and SaaS
marketing invitation widget
SHOW HN2012
How HN took it
9 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 4 critical, out of 21 comments about the project. Thread score +0.14.
Idea: 6 for, 2 againstPerformance: 2 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Clusters grouped friends accurately
From 3 comments
I personally just don't like app invites. I don't use them, and I literally never pay attention to ones I get. That said, the clusters are really impressive. All of my clusters…
patrickambron on HNHi Tony. I just demoed the app and it's awesome, it basically identified all of my friends into perfect groups, with only a little confusion. Obvious groups like "people I met…
habosa on HNWorked exactly the same for me. Blown away thinking about all the cool ways to leverage this.
spydertennis on HN
Demo impressive and fast
From 2 comments
I personally just don't like app invites. I don't use them, and I literally never pay attention to ones I get. That said, the clusters are really impressive. All of my clusters…
patrickambron on HNHi Tony. I just demoed the app and it's awesome, it basically identified all of my friends into perfect groups, with only a little confusion. Obvious groups like "people I met…
habosa on HN
Objections
Unclear that clustering increases invite acceptance
From 1 comment
It's not clear to me that the main hypothesis of this engine is correct - namely, that request recipients who are closely clustered to other users are more likely to accept the…
far33d on HN
Users dislike app invites
From 1 comment
I personally just don't like app invites. I don't use them, and I literally never pay attention to ones I get. That said, the clusters are really impressive. All of my clusters…
patrickambron on HN
Sending Facebook access tokens over HTTP is a security risk
From 2 comments
How will this be monetized? I can't imagine it being free in perpetuity if it catches on. What about security? Passing Facebook user access tokens over http opens them up to…
patja on HNMakes sense, thanks! Didn't realize they provided mutual friends. Great service, did a great job on my list of friends. I would love to use this, but having to send over user…
mikebo on HN
Requests
Create Facebook lists from clusters
From 2 comments
Wow. You built 10 clusters, and I could have clearly given a name to each cluster. As part of your demo, you should let me build a list based on each cluster.
engtech on HNyes, a facebook list. your clusters were perfect lists of family, different groups of friends who knew each other, my wife's family, etc.
engtech on HN
Offer licensing or a Heroku plugin
From 1 comment
Makes sense, thanks! Didn't realize they provided mutual friends. Great service, did a great job on my list of friends. I would love to use this, but having to send over user…
mikebo on HN
Automatic group generator for friends
From 1 comment
Another method of productizing the technology could be an automatic group generator. I'd pay 5$ to have all my friends merged into mutual groups. I have 500 friends and there's…
KingOfB on HN
Questions
How is it monetized?
From 1 comment
How will this be monetized? I can't imagine it being free in perpetuity if it catches on. What about security? Passing Facebook user access tokens over http opens them up to…
patja on HN
How are friend clusters computed?
From 1 comment
Can you give more info on how you are clustering friends? AFAIK Facebook doesn't allow you to fetch friends of friends, so curious how you're finding overlapping connections.
mikebo on HN
Alternatives named
Katango
From 1 comment
Yeah, I don't think many people would pay for something like that. Katango basically provided that service for free, but they got acquired by Google.…
dwynings on HN