Sick of manually "liking" every girl on Tinder, a popular dating app, a B.C. university student designed a program that does it for him.
The Simon Fraser University (SFU) student took to an anonymous Facebook group called SFU Confessions to share his invention.
"I got lazy manually liking everyone on Tinder so I coded a program to automatically do it for me," he wrote on the page on Wednesday. "What am I doing with my life?"
"The first time I ran it, the program liked 2,400+ people," he wrote in an additional comment on Wednesday. "This is also on a completely new (deleted, then recreated) Tinder account which accounts for it not having any matches yet."
He also posted a link to the source code to silence some non-believers.
The inventor's name is Joel Zhang and he is a 19-year-old software systems student, according to The Province.
“I was thinking there has to be some way I can do this faster, so what I ended up doing was I used a proxy on my phone," he told the newspaper.
"Basically, it tunnels the network connection through my computer so that I could see the data it was sending and receiving from Tinder. My program pretends to be the Tinder app by replicating how the data is sent to automatically like each person.”
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