Castlevania Heart by Loserkid5150
In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I decided to create an SMS service that would help socially awkward nerds find other socially awkward nerds: ITP NYU Geek Pick Up Line Generator. Using TextMarks, I created an account and keyword that would trigger my PHP script that prints out a randomized funny (or terribly corny) line that nerds (may) relate to one another. I tried for some variety after using this as my source of witticisms. Whether you’re a math geek, gamer geek, or coder geek, I hope you can enjoy this. How does it work? Text 41411 to NYUITP Geek and have fun with the response back! Who knows, maybe you’ll find a good ice breaker at your next social meetup.
Add on: I’m also flexing my n00b MySQL skills and created a table so I can log the frequency of people trying out this service for metric purposes. Privacy will be preserved since I’m only using this as an educational exercise. My original idea, Free Food Notification system @ ITP, didn’t have enough data to populate it as I was searching for free food deals in the NYU area and couldn’t find a consistent, up-to-date source. Looks like, it may be a work in progress for later.
