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whatsinmyname.prokta.com

8 points by lazy_nerd 13 years ago · 19 comments

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trebor 13 years ago

Wish I could just enter a name. I don't use my social media logins to sign in to other sites any longer.

  • lazy_nerdOP 13 years ago

    We wanted to prevent automated bots from sending too many queries at once - that's why we kept the social login. If you are still concerned, you could authenticate with a fake Twitter or FB account or revoke the permissions after trying it out.

    • HNJohnC 13 years ago

      That seems to me to be a terrible and Byzantine solution to a very easily resolved problem. So easily resolved in fact that I question whether this is really the reason why or are you harvesting data for some other purpose?

      I too never use my facebook or twitter logins for anything unless it's absolutely critical.

      It sounds like it could be fun otherwise.

    • richardwhiuk 13 years ago

      If only there was some other way to implement rate limiting....

    • netrus 13 years ago

      Wo don't you just use a captcha?

  • anExcitedBeast 13 years ago

    Same. This is just silly.

aaronbasssett 13 years ago

Made by beevolve a company who:

> Monitor your brand mentions, schedule and launch social media posts and measure resulting sales and engagement for those posts - all in one easy-to-use platform. Designed for SMBs.

Yeah,sure. Why don't I just give you access to my social networking accounts. That sounds like a fantastic idea…

  • lazy_nerdOP 13 years ago

    We will be switching to captcha in a day or so - if you want to give it a try after that.

jgmmo 13 years ago

I don't know you, I don't trust you, and I won't be giving you my social login.

Should've just had it let us enter our names with a simple captcha.

aguynamedben 13 years ago

"Ben Dover" sure is a popular name... https://www.evernote.com/shard/s97/sh/5a445178-f0ab-4eb2-863...

davewasmer 13 years ago

Why does the app need permission to post tweets for me? Not a chance, sorry.

lazy_nerdOP 13 years ago

You can read about why we developed the app here: http://www.beevolve.com/whats-in-my-name/

linux_devil 13 years ago

good work !

logjam 13 years ago

No, c'mon, I won't login with twitter or facebook.

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