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Ask HN: Why there is no any successful auto based messaging application?
We are working on auto (license plate as id) based messaging mobile app and searched for if any successful app exists before. What we have found so far:
1-) www.bum.com : last news from 2011 seems to failed.
2-)https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.marzki.reparkapp seems to be inactive.
3-) http://platewave.com/ focus on dating and UK only and only web and mobile app.
- WalterSear 10y agoBecause network effect. You can't get there from here.
- ceyhunkazel 10y agoAny details you know?
- WalterSear 10y agoApart from the obvious one I just mentioned?
- ceyhunkazel 10y agoyes, here is the video of bump which shows use cases. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csq37RB1CFk#t=129 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csq37RB1CFk#t=129
- WalterSear 10y agoI don't see what use cases have to do with anything.
- niftich 10y agoWhat would be the purpose? Chatting with people? This is what a normal messaging app does. Chatting with nearby cars? You'd need geolocation accuracy to be continuous and very precise. Waze, a navigation app, allows crowdsourced submissions about traffic info, police, etc; it's goal-oriented and works. Nintendo 3DS consoles will interact when they're in proximity. That's goal-oriented and works. Several normal chat networks, like Snapchat, allow you to locate nearby users when they're in geolocation mode. General purpose, semi-anonymous neighbor chat is just not that big of a market (yet), even when you discount a focus on cars. Yik-yak was similar by offering geofenced anonymous chat based around fixed (in real-world) locations, but they just pivoted away from anonymity.
- ceyhunkazel 10y agohere some use cases from video of bump which what we tought similar ones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csq37RB1CFk#t=129 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csq37RB1CFk#t=129