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Re:I fell in love with a girl, so I built a web app to dedic... by IsaacSchlueter on Tuesday November 10, 2009 @04:30PM (#933988)
Alternate spellings would be great, and guessing the first name would also be good. Maybe you could facilitate this:

1. What's your crush's full name?

2. What's your crush's first name?

3. What's your crush's screen name?

I got 3 guesses for her twitter handle, and 1 for her first name, and 2 for first and last name. I happen to know her middle name, and entered that, so it registered all of these as incorrect.

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Re:I fell in love with a girl, so I built a web app to dedic... by amanfredi on Tuesday November 10, 2009 @04:45PM (#934015)
I agree, I entered the full name and people I sent it to are guessing mostly first names and getting it wrong even if they guess the right first name.
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Re:I fell in love with a girl, so I built a web app to dedic... by t3mp3st on Tuesday November 10, 2009 @05:06PM (#934058)
Added a number of words in name hint on the guessing page! Hope this works!
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Re:I fell in love with a girl, so I built a web app to dedic... by t3mp3st on Tuesday November 10, 2009 @04:51PM (#934034)
Definitely a great idea... I'll try to throw this in ASAP. Perhaps I'll have it update the prompt as you've described instead of increasing the flexibility of the comparison.
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Re:I fell in love with a girl, so I built a web app to dedic... by t3mp3st on Tuesday November 10, 2009 @05:07PM (#934060)
Thanks for your excellent idea. I added a number of words hint to the guess page -- let me know if you think this'll do it :D
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Re:I fell in love with a girl, so I built a web app to dedic... by IsaacSchlueter on Wednesday November 11, 2009 @12:33AM (#934687)
Nope, not doing it.

The font is way too small. Is there any way to make it case-insensitive? Or perhaps tell someone how close they were, or if they matched any of hte parts of the name?

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