Faceless
Consumer and social
anonymous social app
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
2 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 8 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score -0.26.
Privacy: 0 for, 4 againstIdea: 1 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 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
Open-source approach is welcomed
From 2 comments
I like that you made this open source. I'll reserve criticism for GitHub issues / pull requests, but overall I applaud your efforts. :D
sarciszewski on HNInteresting concept of pseudonymity. If your friend only has one or a few friends, there's a pretty good chance that they'll the identify of the poster. In generally, I love the…
tabrischen on HN
Good job on the project
From 1 comment
First of all, good job. Secondly, do you have any plans to put the project to practical use? Or is it a research/tinkering project?
vdaniuk on HN
Objections
Phone-number hashing is weak against brute force
From 2 comments
There's no way to "securely encrypt" a phone number.
mo on HNI am not an expert but it seems to me that hashing of phone numbers is relatively useless here because there is a relatively small search space of potential phone numbers so I…
maineldc on HN
Anonymity can be deduced from small friend lists
From 1 comment
Interesting concept of pseudonymity. If your friend only has one or a few friends, there's a pretty good chance that they'll the identify of the poster. In generally, I love the…
tabrischen on HN
Does not install on tablets
From 1 comment
I can't install it on my Nexus 7 tablet. Maybe because it expects a phone?
NoahTheDuke on HN
PHP is a poor choice for the backend
From 1 comment
Why PHP? I would argue that in this day and age, that is a bad decision. There are simply better, lighter weight languages to use that will get you going faster and cause less…
arasmussen on HN
Requests
Provide screenshots
From 1 comment
thanks for putting this out here, I will use this as a resource for a project I was planning on getting started on. I am excited to play around with it. Do you have any…
Hortinstein on HN
Support tablets
From 1 comment
I can't install it on my Nexus 7 tablet. Maybe because it expects a phone?
NoahTheDuke on HN
Questions
Is the encryption key stored alongside the ciphertext?
From 1 comment
great one more question, on my rough inspection it looks like the encrypted text and the key is stored in the same database entry. pardon my lack of knowledge, but this seems…
Hortinstein on HN
Is this a practical product or a tinkering project?
From 1 comment
First of all, good job. Secondly, do you have any plans to put the project to practical use? Or is it a research/tinkering project?
vdaniuk on HN
Alternatives named
Secret
From 2 comments
Curious if this takes the same pains with anonymity as Secret itself, where identities and post associations are, supposedly, opaque even to individual founders - it takes at…
crystaln on HNThe title makes a dubious connection between their valuation and their technology. I guess that Secret investors are not interested in the technology but rather the network of…
dmbass on HN
WhatsApp
From 1 comment
These kinds of startups really aren't tech startups. They're media startups. It's not about their technology. When Facebook bought WhatsApp they were not buying technology. That…
api on HN