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23 points by myprasanna 14 years ago · 13 comments · 1 min read

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Do you guys remember that magical map from that Harry Potter movie? That thingy a couple of guys at Dropbox made during their hackathon? We took it to the next level...

pbiggar 14 years ago

Complete tangent, but I love that there is another company called Circle (my company is https://circleci.com). You would think that another company of the same name would be confusing, but it's actually been quite useful so far.

After the other Circle's last Hackathon, we got a couple of new users who "found us after hearing about the hackathon". And we occasionally meet people who "have heard of Circle". Which Circle? Maybe ours, maybe theirs, but it doesn't really matter, because they have heard the brand, and they know something good about it.

So, an upvote for you guys, and for your hackathon (which seems really cool), and for your app which I hear great things about, and for a mutually beneficial co-naming situation :)

  • myprasannaOP 14 years ago

    You do know we use your system to test code right? :)

    • pbiggar 14 years ago

      I do of course, but I don't announce who our customers unless they announce it first (thanks!), or they give permission.

pm90 14 years ago

I am concerned that this might provoke a reaction from whoever holds the rights to the name 'Marauder's Map' (probably JK Rowling?). Is that likely?

aeurielesn 14 years ago

Yet another Facebook Application that wants my email address. There was a time when I could choose an anonymous proxy address but It seems that is not possible anymore, too bad.

  • shanelja 14 years ago

    I'm more curious why it wants access to the messages in my inbox, I dislike giving control like that to any third party developer.

empika 14 years ago

Nice! Some kids at the Young Rewired State hack week built their own Marauders Map a few weeks ago, which was pretty cool http://hacks.rewiredstate.org/events/yrs2012/marauder-me

dsirijus 14 years ago

I think you need to buy a proper ssl certificate.

chrischen 14 years ago

I get stuck in redirects.

pratagarwal 14 years ago

Very cool!!!

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