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Re:Show HN: I taught myself PHP and built TweetPerView.com by johnrob on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @08:15PM (#2282254)
Nobody complains about referring friends as a way to ascend pre-release invite lists (i.e. http://www.socialcam.com/). How is this any different?
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Re:Show HN: I taught myself PHP and built TweetPerView.com by rocktronica on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @09:33PM (#2282468)
The artificial scarcity on beta apps is understood but unavoidable, if that's the route the app makers are going.

Telling me to bother my friends before I can watch a video that I can get w/ a quick Google search or view-source is another matter.

(That said, nice little script you made. Pretty clever!)

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Re:Show HN: I taught myself PHP and built TweetPerView.com by ojbyrne on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @09:51PM (#2282535)
Actually I find that practice kind of pernicious. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
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