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jjmarryesterday at 7:21 PM2 repliesview on HN

I love how OP directly borrowed the plot of The Social Network by scraping the campus directory for a student rating system. And somehow it's playing out in the exact same way.

> I had scraped data for all students at IIT Delhi, and made a profile for all of them.

> anyone could make an anonymous account, and then comment anything on anyone's profile. Each profile also had 4 fields, where you could tag anyone, in the "has dated", "crushing on", "crushed on by" or "haters" category.

> he told me, take the site down or you WILL face DISCO, so again I was like sure, I dont mind it (I was just gettting reminded of Social Network lmao)

> also at one point i literally said the social network dialogue, " I feel like i deserve some recognition from you guys"


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1whizkid1yesterday at 9:07 PM

It’s actually uncanny Maybe some of the things im doing are inspired tho

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thranceyesterday at 9:15 PM

He should probably drop out, seek funding from Thiel and start his company. He could call it something like "visagebank" or similar. Then in a few decades he can join the select club of dickheads ruling the world.

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