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I'm sure you're not like this, but there's a worry to keep in mind as users of such an app:

There was a meme app like this that went around on LiveJournal a few years ago. It seemed all cool and sweet, but they announced a few months later that they'd let you come back and pay them $5 to see what the crushes actually were.

Lots of people paid to see who had crushes on them. I'm sure they made a killing.

In this case, imagine rampant capitalism, and that people who visit the link (who aren't the submitting IP) get to see a "Shhhh: Pay $10 to see who this person has a crush on."

In theory, from a technical perspective, it may not be stored on the back-end, but you have to trust t3mp3st isn't storing the actual names.




There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY that I would ever do this whatsoever. That's so sleazy. I'm not looking to exploit people -- just to channel my cheesiness into something productive and possibly make my own crush (cupidco.de/a) smile :)




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