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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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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.

That's clearly his aspiration. I think the window for that has passed, though.

This is a johnny-come-lately who is just acting out a script that VCs are already sick of.

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

The advice I have as someone who also pushed boundaries is to be more creative next time.

The school will hate you no matter what. But this project doesn't appeal to VCs because social networking isn't trendy anymore.

Try doing something fresh with AI.

Example: the founder of Cluely got expelled from Columbia for creating an AI to cheat at LeetCode-style interviews.

He also spends his time posting what some call unprofessional engagement bait on social media. However, he just had a $15 million Series A.

I mean I wasnt doing this for vc’s i was just doing it cos it was cool. And something i wanted for my college life.

But yes, i appreciate your comment, and i 100% plan to do more cool and serious things in the future.

Your site’s really cool btw