[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":498},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-4332445":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":35,"aspects":36,"strip":49,"post_text":50,"what":51,"said":98,"maker_in_thread":260,"shape":271,"grid":275,"attempts":457,"same_week":462,"maker_shows":46,"maker_hidden":490,"reader_version":491,"card":492},"4332445","HubChilla","Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS","title","Show HN: HubChilla - Asynchronously Chat With Similar People Using SMS","http:\u002F\u002Fwww.hubchilla.com","hubchilla.com","ritikm",1343966035,2012,61,77,379,1677,23,"notable","consumer_social","matchmaking chat","web_app",[24,25,26,27],"sms chat","text chat","meet people","chat roulette","mixed",-0.099,{"positive":31,"neutral":32,"mixed":33,"critical":34},13,30,1,18,62,{"privacy":37,"idea":39,"design":42,"execution":44,"docs":47,"pricing":48},{"positive":33,"critical":38},5,{"positive":40,"critical":41},6,2,{"positive":33,"critical":43},3,{"positive":45,"critical":46},0,4,{"positive":45,"critical":46},{"positive":33,"critical":45},[33,43,33,43,38,33,33,43,33,43,33,33,33,33,45,33,33,38,38,38,33,43,43,38,33,33,43,38,38,38,33,45,43,43,43,43,43,33,38,38],null,{"problem":50,"audience":52,"pricing":50,"motivation":50,"time_to_build":68,"stack":75,"openness":96,"stage":97,"team_size":96},{"value":53,"source":54,"evidence":55},"people wanting to meet and chat with similar people, including Hacker News readers and college students","commenter",[56,60,64],{"id":57,"by":58,"text":59},"4332692","yuranlu","This is awesome! It's like Omegle, except where you only talk to Hacker News readers. Hacker News readers are much more interesting to talk to anyway :-)",{"id":61,"by":62,"text":63},"4332694","rsamvit","Your name is never disclosed - all the other person sees is your age, gender, and city.",{"id":65,"by":66,"text":67},"4332590","d0m","So just don't use it. You're clearly not in the market audience. This audience loves facebook, uses it every single day and authorize all kind of applications without a single…",{"value":69,"source":70,"evidence":71},"6 days from idea to launch","maker",[72],{"id":73,"by":11,"text":74},"4332661","Friday 7\u002F27\u002F12 morning - thought of the idea, briefly talked about the features and did a basic spec Friday 7\u002F27\u002F12 evening - started coding the backend text message routing…",[76,80,84,88,92],{"value":77,"source":70,"evidence":78},"Node.js",[79],{"id":73,"by":11,"text":74},{"value":81,"source":70,"evidence":82},"MongoDB",[83],{"id":73,"by":11,"text":74},{"value":85,"source":70,"evidence":86},"Redis",[87],{"id":73,"by":11,"text":74},{"value":89,"source":70,"evidence":90},"Twilio API",[91],{"id":73,"by":11,"text":74},{"value":93,"source":70,"evidence":94},"Heroku",[95],{"id":73,"by":11,"text":74},"unknown","launched",{"praise":99,"objections":123,"requests":193,"questions":225,"alternatives":247},[100,116],{"value":101,"source":54,"evidence":102},"Fun, interesting idea, an alternative to Omegle",[103,107,111,112],{"id":104,"by":105,"text":106},"4332605","dm8","Cool idea. Signed up and talking with someone via texts. Couple of features that you should add - 1. Give questions to participants to talk about based on their FB likes or…",{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"4332691","melvinmt","Since it doesn't rely on an internet connection, I would love to use this as an alternative to Omegle (I have crappy 2G) but it should definitely be anonymous. There's not a…",{"id":57,"by":58,"text":59},{"id":113,"by":114,"text":115},"4332532","ardakara","Good stuff man, just signed up. Congrats! My first conversation: - \"Show me your .vimrc and I'll show you mine\" - \"Ah, I can't I'm married to emacs\" Sounds promising :)",{"value":117,"source":54,"evidence":118},"Demo chat on homepage is effective",[119],{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"4332461","mehulkar","I almost signed up because of the demo chat on the home page.",[124,143,154,168,179],{"value":125,"source":54,"evidence":126},"Facebook login required, privacy concern",[127,131,135,139],{"id":128,"by":129,"text":130},"4332472","ghostfish","Facebook login only? This is a disturbing trend I'm noticing with a number of new websites\u002Fservices. I don't think I'm alone in saying I don't like allowing apps access to all of…",{"id":132,"by":133,"text":134},"4332700","derrida","What about if you don't have a Facebook account?",{"id":136,"by":137,"text":138},"4333052","koopajah","Ok but this is a Show HN. If we want to give feedback and test the service we HAVE to use our facebook account and give our info when we don't want it and that's problematic.",{"id":140,"by":141,"text":142},"4332808","kurokonaa","Also, some people don't have Facebook's, myself included. I hope the \"Facebook login only\" doesn't become a standard.",{"value":144,"source":54,"evidence":145},"Posts to Facebook timeline without clear consent",[146,150],{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},"4332630","robbiet480","Uh, this posted to my Facebook timeline without my permission.",{"id":151,"by":152,"text":153},"4337109","beaugunderson","The Facebook auto-share any time I start a new conversation, text someone (for EVERY TEXT?!), or login to your website is awful. I liked the service but opt-out auto-sharing…",{"value":155,"source":54,"evidence":156},"Signup and form bugs",[157,161,164],{"id":158,"by":159,"text":160},"4332476","jhuckestein","During the signup, I wouldn't animate the progress bar. I waited for half a minute expecting something to happen until I realized you were waiting for me to fill out a form.…",{"id":162,"by":159,"text":163},"4332479","And hitting return anywhere in the signup page just reloads the page and looses the form for me in Chrome Canary.",{"id":165,"by":166,"text":167},"4332522","petitmiam","Tried to sign up, but it kept refilling the phone number field with the default value. Could just be a Firefox Beta (Android) thing though.",{"value":169,"source":54,"evidence":170},"Spam and #pause not working reliably",[171,175],{"id":172,"by":173,"text":174},"4332641","Johngibb","Jesus, I just got like 2 dozen texts all at once before #pause worked. Thanks, I love paying for my texts. It should NOT start until you text #play, as it seemed like it would.",{"id":176,"by":177,"text":178},"4332690","nono13","I'm getting spammed. #pause doesn't work...",{"value":180,"source":54,"evidence":181},"Unclear what the service is and not supported outside the US",[182,186,190],{"id":183,"by":184,"text":185},"4332654","progrock","Still not really sure what it is. I tried the help page, but it foisted a login upon me before I could go any further. The about link is hidden from eye, and still doesn't really…",{"id":187,"by":188,"text":189},"4332869","jim_kaiser","Please consider adding a disclaimer, that it is not supported internationally. That is really not clear from the home page and clicking on help needs me to login on FB. Getting…",{"id":191,"by":184,"text":192},"4332632","Do make that clear. I'm not in the US and that's far from obvious.",[194,200,211,221],{"value":195,"source":54,"evidence":196},"Stand-alone login without Facebook",[197],{"id":198,"by":62,"text":199},"4332498","Thanks for your feedback! We use facebook login because its the easiest way for us to get the basic data to provide intelligent recommendations. We have plans to roll out a…",{"value":201,"source":54,"evidence":202},"Support for international phone numbers, including the UK",[203,207],{"id":204,"by":205,"text":206},"4332572","voltagex_","Any chance of allowing this to be used internationally?",{"id":208,"by":209,"text":210},"4332617","nc","Support the UK please? It's really easy if you're using Twillio",{"value":212,"source":54,"evidence":213},"Integration with Google Talk or other chat clients",[214,218],{"id":215,"by":216,"text":217},"4332587","werdnanoslen","Integrate with common chat clients like google and I might've more interested.",{"id":219,"by":205,"text":220},"4332687","Maybe an SMS to Google Talk bridge?",{"value":222,"source":54,"evidence":223},"Multi-person chats and questions to start conversations",[224],{"id":104,"by":105,"text":106},[226,237],{"value":227,"source":54,"evidence":228},"How is fraud, bots and abuse handled",[229,233],{"id":230,"by":231,"text":232},"4332609","veyron","How are you addressing ... fraudulent information on the FB profile? Automated bots? Trolling pedophiles?",{"id":234,"by":235,"text":236},"4332918","lmm","When I worked in the industry we saw a few people try user-user chat. It always ended up with users sending threatening\u002Fharassing messages to each other, the service provider…",{"value":238,"source":54,"evidence":239},"What data is shared with other users",[240,244],{"id":241,"by":242,"text":243},"4332483","ninetax","Could you be more clear about what exactly you will tell these \"people I want to meet\" about me? Also, please clarify some parts of your privacy policy We may collect the…",{"id":245,"by":62,"text":246},"4332487","We tell all people three Pieces of Information: 1. Your Gender 2. Your Age 3. Your location (City, State) Thats all! Everything else is private.",[248,253],{"value":249,"source":54,"evidence":250},"Omegle",[251,252],{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},{"id":104,"by":105,"text":106},{"value":254,"source":54,"evidence":255},"SMS roulette",[256],{"id":257,"by":258,"text":259},"4332496","jenntoda","SMSroulette? Hmm...",{"comments":40,"answered":33,"key":261},[262,265,268],{"id":263,"text":264},"4332504","Fixed! Thanks for catching that.",{"id":266,"text":267},"4332516","Sorry about that, the correct number is 422-333-4737 and #play is the correct command, not #start. Fixed, and pushed live!",{"id":269,"text":270},"4332884","Duly noted. Added it to the front page and pushed it live just now. 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