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Re:Show HN: NeedleHunt, a free social graph search engine fo... by mattdeboard on Thursday June 12, 2014 @09:36PM (#7887036)
What is proprietary about your graph search engine? I guess you mean you're licensing someone else's tech?

edit: Wow, huge claims. Hundreds of millions of social media accounts, FULL INFO on 25 million people? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence that doesn't demand I give you such ridiculous, completely irrational permissions on my facebook account.

Everything about this screams "product manager" who is licensing someone else's tech, and is making exaggerated claims to make a quick buck through some angle. Totally slimy feel to this, and the fact you're basically "lol whoops my bad!!" when people bring up the stupid permission request tells me all I need to know.

double edit: btw, you'll "try" to lower it? This was three hours ago you said this.

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Re:Show HN: NeedleHunt, a free social graph search engine fo... by jayzalowitz on Thursday June 12, 2014 @10:06PM (#7887122)
No, we built this ourselves and are pretty proud of that.

I don't need your data from facebook man, let me know if you want me to delete your profile and I am more than happy to do so.

P.S. its been a busy day and I want to deploy things the right way, feel free to change scope in the auth.

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