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Show HN: My silly twist on the Facebook Like button (zuupy.com)
8 points by fezzl on Jan 14, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 14 comments


I made a site similar to this right after the like button was released. Grew to over 2 million visitors a day in 4 days.. then facebook started blocking sites that used the like button without any real content.. So if this grows don't expect it to last very long.


Thanks for the heads-up. There's a similar website called Hey I Like, it's a Facebook app. They still seem to be around after months. What was your concept?


Yeah noticed that.. it was exactly the same as Hey I Like. My only thought as to why facebook is allowing Hey I Like to stay up is that they're getting a portion of the ad revenue (since it's a canvas app).


Wow, that's some insane traffic. Care to share how you promoted it? I'm assuming you did a bit to spread the word and then it went viral...


Didn't take much to get going. Posted it to a few smallish facebook pages I had. Day 1: got a few thousand visitors, day 2: over 100,000, day 3: over 1 million..


Either this is more complicated than it should be, or I am totally missing something... Is there anyway to actually "Like" what you submit (besides waiting for it to show up in the random stream)?


Hi, you should be redirected to the page that you created after you click the button. However, you have to manually click Like once you're at that page.


Oh, right. I see it now. But it doesn't seem to be posting to my facebook..?


One weakness is that it wouldn't post it automatically. I believe that it's against Facebook's policy to auto-Like something for visitors. So, clicking create would create the entry, but not Like it yet.


I acknowledge that. I meant to say that it doesn't even post when I click the "like" button, even thought I am logged into facebook.


With a left, and then a right...

you were both Zuckerpunched.



So it's you who has been submitting posts of this nature?


"Of this nature", perhaps.




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