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Serverless Stranger-Matching Tool Uses GitHub Issues as Database
A developer built fata.uk, a serverless stranger-matching tool that uses Cloudflare Workers and GitHub Issues as an encrypted pool. The browser computes signal heuristics and a proof-of-work gate prevents abuse. Matches are made via multi-channel scoring and AI writes an introduction, then the platform disappears.
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Clever architecture, but relying on GitHub Issues as a database and a public endpoint that leaked 3.5B tokens in one day raises serious reliability and security questions.
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