Show HN: Edabit – Like Duolingo for Learning to Code

Re:Show HN: Edabit – Like Duolingo for Learning to Code by css on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @02:54PM (#18453244)

I just reverse image searched all three of their testimonial photos all all come from random .edu faculty pages with completely different names. They also show up on random Twitter profiles and bandcamp pages. Not sure why they’re using fake testimonial photos but that seems rather scummy.

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Re:Show HN: Edabit – Like Duolingo for Learning to Code by shortcord on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @03:55PM (#18453855)

I’m confused as to how anyone would think this is alright to do.

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Re:Show HN: Edabit – Like Duolingo for Learning to Code by RickS on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @04:24PM (#18454111)

Some people willingly submit photos to be used in this manner[0], which will lead to them being used all over the place.

Once you've seen this picture of Brad Frost[1] (a web tech personality), it's hilarious how many startup landing page mockups he appears in. I've personally seen dozens.

[0] https://uifaces.co/

[1] https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/383701?s=460&v=4

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Re:Show HN: Edabit – Like Duolingo for Learning to Code by xtrapolate on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @04:00PM (#18453897)

> "I’m confused as to how anyone would think this is alright to do."

Could be placeholders from development that ended up going live. I wouldn't jump to conclusion.

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Re:Show HN: Edabit – Like Duolingo for Learning to Code by Method-X on Thursday November 15, 2018 @04:01PM (#18463264)

Just because a testimonial image can be found elsewhere on the web doesn't mean it's fake. The images are of the actual person who gave the testimonial but I changed their names. I see absolutely nothing wrong with doing that.

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Re:Show HN: Edabit – Like Duolingo for Learning to Code by wingerlang on Thursday November 15, 2018 @12:02AM (#18456978)

What if a proper testimonial user didn't have a profile picture?

Also searching I found this, https://ctooltrk.com/ kinda interesting I guess.

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