HubChilla
Consumer and social
matchmaking chat
SHOW HN2012
61points
77comments
#379of 1,677 in 2012
Top 23%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
13 positive, 30 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 18 critical, out of 62 comments about the project. Thread score -0.10.
Idea: 6 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 1 for, 5 againstDesign: 1 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 4 againstDocs: 0 for, 4 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun, interesting idea, an alternative to Omegle
From 4 comments
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…
dm8 on HNSince 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…
melvinmt on HNThis 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 :-)
yuranlu on HNGood 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 :)
ardakara on HN
Demo chat on homepage is effective
From 1 comment
I almost signed up because of the demo chat on the home page.
mehulkar on HN
Objections
Facebook login required, privacy concern
From 4 comments
Facebook login only? This is a disturbing trend I'm noticing with a number of new websites/services. I don't think I'm alone in saying I don't like allowing apps access to all of…
ghostfish on HNWhat about if you don't have a Facebook account?
derrida on HNOk 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.
koopajah on HNAlso, some people don't have Facebook's, myself included. I hope the "Facebook login only" doesn't become a standard.
kurokonaa on HN
Posts to Facebook timeline without clear consent
From 2 comments
Uh, this posted to my Facebook timeline without my permission.
robbiet480 on HNThe 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…
beaugunderson on HN
Signup and form bugs
From 3 comments
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.…
jhuckestein on HNAnd hitting return anywhere in the signup page just reloads the page and looses the form for me in Chrome Canary.
jhuckestein on HNTried to sign up, but it kept refilling the phone number field with the default value. Could just be a Firefox Beta (Android) thing though.
petitmiam on HN
Spam and #pause not working reliably
From 2 comments
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.
Johngibb on HNI'm getting spammed. #pause doesn't work...
nono13 on HN
Unclear what the service is and not supported outside the US
From 3 comments
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…
progrock on HNPlease 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…
jim_kaiser on HNDo make that clear. I'm not in the US and that's far from obvious.
progrock on HN
Requests
Stand-alone login without Facebook
From 1 comment
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…
rsamvit on HN
Support for international phone numbers, including the UK
From 2 comments
Any chance of allowing this to be used internationally?
voltagex_ on HNSupport the UK please? It's really easy if you're using Twillio
nc on HN
Integration with Google Talk or other chat clients
From 2 comments
Integrate with common chat clients like google and I might've more interested.
werdnanoslen on HNMaybe an SMS to Google Talk bridge?
voltagex_ on HN
Multi-person chats and questions to start conversations
From 1 comment
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…
dm8 on HN
Questions
How is fraud, bots and abuse handled
From 2 comments
How are you addressing ... fraudulent information on the FB profile? Automated bots? Trolling pedophiles?
veyron on HNWhen I worked in the industry we saw a few people try user-user chat. It always ended up with users sending threatening/harassing messages to each other, the service provider…
lmm on HN
What data is shared with other users
From 2 comments
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…
ninetax on HNWe tell all people three Pieces of Information: 1. Your Gender 2. Your Age 3. Your location (City, State) Thats all! Everything else is private.
rsamvit on HN
Alternatives named
Omegle
From 2 comments
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…
melvinmt on HNCool 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…
dm8 on HN
SMS roulette
From 1 comment
SMSroulette? Hmm...
jenntoda on HN