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Hector
@hctr.dev

Random app idea I had yesterday: A dating/meeting app where you find people you are interested in based on each others code. It would connect to your Github and pull random pieces of code to show other people (nothing else about you). If you both like each other's code you could connect 🫶

Hector
@hctr.dev

One challenge would be making sure it's actually your code, and not either something someone else contributed to your repo, or a random repo you just copied and pushed. Maybe using code from PRs would mitigate this a little? Or a more complex system to detect and exclude copied code?

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Hector
@hctr.dev

You could write code directly into the app, but that somewhat defeats the purpose of it being your "true self", since you would likely polish the code a lot more than you would if you were writing it for an actual project. By pulling random code from your account I'd hope to show the real you.

Hector
@hctr.dev

The widespread use of AI in coding also makes this tricky, since your code nowadays will likely include a little (or a lot) of code generated by AI, also defeating the point of people "choosing" you because they like your code. I don't have a good answer for this one. AI to filter out AI code? 😆

Hector
@hctr.dev

I have no intentions of building this, but I find it fun to explore some of these ideas to see how they might (or not) work 🤔