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"It will get you laid"? I know Valentine's Day is kind of a soulless, transparently commercial cash-in on human affection, but way to take it to the next shallow level.

Otherwise, cool.

Thanks for getting the joke.

Did you read the disclaimer :) ? I thought the actual product was genuinely cute.

And way to alienate 50% of your potential customers with (completely unnecessary) heavily gendered marketing, despite the fact that romance is not gender-specific.

Women get laid plenty, too. This was intentionally not gender-specific. I apologize if you were offended in any way.

After adding a name, it spins endlessly, not showing anything but the red ribbon, while playing an Ingrid Michaelson song that I'm quite sure you don't have the licensing to play.

Nice!! Good job Michael and Eric!! I just scored a few much needed extra points with Stephanie. (Much needed because I took her to see "The Grey" last night.)

*Note to self. When faced with "The Vow", and "The Grey" on night before Valentines, choose "The Vow".

I'm getting an error when creating a card.

"Application Error - An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. Please try again in a few moments.

If you are the application owner, check your logs for details."

Should be fixed now.

This is awesome, sent to my gf. Thanks and nice work!

Requiring my Facebook credentials to log in guarantees my non-participation. I realize I'm in the minority for behaving that way, but there is a nonzero number of potential users you lose when you charge the fee of privacy at the door.

Which makes me think: it would be really interesting to see the demographic breakdown of people who behave similarly.

In general, I agree with you, but as this uses Facebook to find photos of you and your loved one, it was pretty impossible to not require Facebook authentication.

It's called "FBMyValentine". I mean, I think it's to be expected. In case you were wondering, it uses your friends list, and then uses photos of you with your significant other.

Without Facebook signin this would be a dramatically different (and far less compelling) product.

Just showed it to my gf who found it very cute. Thanks for this, well done. =)

Eric from Motiv.es and I made this to help everyone this Valentine's Day. :)

(I know there's an issue with the video in Safari, working on that now).

Should be fixed now.

I'll be playing this song on repeat all day :)

video not showing in Firefox (on platform ubuntu xfce)

That's a good thing, right? Just trying to make sure this isn't a bug report :P

turns out it's not OS related, firefox not working on both Windows7 and ubuntu

Just tested Firefox on Win7; the video isn't supposed to be there. It's just used for playing the music in the background.

ok. What I get is only a blank screen with a red banner that reads my note, and background music. Is there anything I am missing here? a slide show of pictures or what?

It should be a slideshow of pictures you and your friend are tagged in on Facebook together. Here's an example: http://www.fbmyvalentine.com/cards/462bb3ca

My wife didn't care for it :( but my girlfriend loved it!

* Oh, I see it's in the FB app acceptance thing...sorry, haven't accepted a FB app inawhile.

Good lord. It's the point of the application.

Right...but it's not clear if there's anything else needed/going on...I think the non-FB-like branding of the button threw me off (and the few times that I've ever used a FB app it's been from inside FB).

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