[HN Gopher] Show HN: Tinder4Cats
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       Show HN: Tinder4Cats
        
       Couldn't resist when I saw Tinder for the other day! Thanks
       https://twitter.com/DasSurma for making the source code for Tinder
       for Bananas available!
        
       Author : theolivenbaum
       Score  : 91 points
       Date   : 2022-03-19 08:23 UTC (14 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (tinder4cats.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (tinder4cats.com)
        
       | nowherebeen wrote:
       | This is hilarious. This is exact idea of my parents had for an
       | app.
        
       | kaycebasques wrote:
       | Link to original Tinder For Bananas:
       | https://tinderforbananas.com/
        
       | mysterydip wrote:
       | Suggestion to rename it to Tinpurr
        
       | jedberg wrote:
       | What kind of cold hearted person swipes left??
        
       | WalterGR wrote:
       | Was there a HotOrNot for bananas and cats?
        
       | CameronNemo wrote:
       | Where are the IG handles? Where are the "self employed content
       | creators"? Where are the rants about height? How about the bios
       | that only consist of "guess my breed"?
       | 
       | 2/10 for being true to the medium
       | 
       | 10/10 for cats
        
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         | fullstop wrote:
         | I'm glad that I missed out on this era of dating (by being
         | married).
        
           | whatshisface wrote:
           | Tinder is the new way to say "Hey baby" at a bar, not the new
           | way to meet someone and slowly get to like them more and
           | more. Everything that existed previously is still there, it
           | just takes more courage than letting a computer do the hard
           | part for you.
        
           | DonHopkins wrote:
           | I'm glad that I missed out on this era of dating (by having
           | cats). ;)
        
             | fullstop wrote:
             | Oddly enough, I ended up with both a wife and cats. I was
             | happy with one cat, but she wanted more than that. We
             | compromised and now have four.
        
       | hiccuphippo wrote:
       | This would be very nice for an animal adoption center.
        
         | georgyo wrote:
         | This has been tried, at least for dogs. It doesn't exist for a
         | variety of reasons, but I cannot find any articles about why it
         | failed and I only have second hand knowledge.
         | 
         | https://techcrunch.com/2014/05/27/barkbuddy-is-a-tinder-for-...
        
       | politelemon wrote:
       | Nice and simple OP! Looking at the telltale odd, sometimes
       | distorted background of the cats, I could immediately recognize
       | this as "this cat does not exist". Indeed the project's README
       | confirms it.
        
         | frosted-flakes wrote:
         | I thought something was odd. None of those cats seemed real,
         | and I clicked "dismiss" on all of them.
        
           | adamhearn wrote:
           | I must have gotten _cat_ fished
        
       | Canada wrote:
       | Images arent loading half the time
        
       | gundamdoubleO wrote:
       | Must be bugged, seems like none of these cats like me back ;)
        
         | wincy wrote:
         | If it does like you it'll promptly scratch and bite you for
         | deigning to touch its belly for a single millisecond too long.
        
         | tamaharbor wrote:
         | Isn't that what a cat does?
        
       | rg111 wrote:
       | Are all these cats real? Or, are they generated by some sort of
       | deep generative model?
        
         | MawKKe wrote:
         | Looking for some catnip & chill?
        
           | csunbird wrote:
           | Sorry, my cat does not do drugs!
        
         | WalterGR wrote:
         | That's what the comment mentioning "this cat does not exist" is
         | referring to.
        
           | rg111 wrote:
           | Ah, missed that one.
           | 
           | The faces were weird to look at. Too many of them.
           | 
           | The best I have seen in the "X does not exist" category is
           | https://thisbeachdoesnotexist.com .
        
       | drakonka wrote:
       | I couldn't bring myself to swipe left on any of them.
        
       | mkoryak wrote:
       | I am disappointed that you didn't use https://thecatapi.com for
       | your feline data source.
        
         | glenneroo wrote:
         | According to the linked Github project, "This page uses images
         | from This Cat Does Not Exist, and random profiles from Twitter
         | Bio Generator."
         | 
         | But I really wish I could submit my own.
        
           | mkoryak wrote:
           | Yeah I saw that they have an images directory in the GitHub
           | source.. so the cats are limited and static. Thecatapi has a
           | purfect selection of cats compared to this
        
       | djohnston wrote:
       | Well done!
        
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