Show HN: Hack My Facebook - Most Viral App at PennApps(hackmyfacebook.com)
hackmyfacebook.com
Show HN: Hack My Facebook - Most Viral App at PennApps
http://hackmyfacebook.com
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Just an FYI, if this gains any traction, you're going to have Facebook legal after you for using the word "facebook" in the app name - it happened to the Better Facebook folks (had to change their name to "social fixer")
Because some moron could confuse the main site and this, I don't know. Lawyers ruin everything.
Because some moron could confuse the main site and this, I don't know. Lawyers ruin everything.
(re-branding of: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529712)
So.. What does it do?
It's a bit of mystery meat. No demo, no screenshots, just 'hack my facebook'. Why would I click that to try something?
You should really provide a demo or a clear explanation of what's going to happen instead of just 'hack my facebook'.
You should really provide a demo or a clear explanation of what's going to happen instead of just 'hack my facebook'.
Reminds me of a site I made that has a similar background, but is personalized to your friends: http://friendgrid.heroku.com/
This is awesome, and we don't have to make our own. Next time, we are definitely using this as the background! Thanks for building this!
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.
Can see why this won Most Viral at the east coast's biggest hackathon!
Ahh this is great!
I'm curious what the average login rate is, versus the average Hacker News login rate is. I don't mind using Facebook for login, but I do it cautiously. This, I'm a bit too nervous to try.
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.
We don't post anything without your explicit permission on the page following authentication.
"Disclaimer: This app can and will post a large amount of hilarious content from your Facebook account."
This makes it seem like the app will post without my explicit permission.
This makes it seem like the app will post without my explicit permission.
The only implicit post is when you use the unhack feature, and it lets your friends know that you hacked yourself.
Respectfully going to disagree on that one. The "Unhack" button doesn't seem to have removed any content from my profile but it did post a link on my timeline promoting the app (and using the old URL and name). Definitely not expected behavior.
There's a reason I use the 'Only Me' privacy for the few new apps that I add, and it's behavior like this. Luckily when you remove an app there's a check box to remove activities generated by that app.