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Show HN: I just hacked together an app to map broadband speeds.
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- wdewind 17y agoit would be helpful if you could make the adding 1 click. i have to leave your site, then come back, then go to back to the other site and copy the next field..etc etc. no one is really going to do that. you could do a combination of geolocation and screen scraping to do it (or maybe there is a better way, that's just the first thing that came to mind), and it would probably take a bit so you'd have to ask the user to wait or something.
- patrickryan 17y agoThis is exactly why I left the site. If a site asks me to leave, I will be less likely to return and enter data.
- d0m 17y agoThere's a map. Without more information, it looks like maps.google.com.
- elliottkember 17y agoCan't you see the little pink icons with speeds on them?
- wdewind 17y agonope
- elliottkember 17y agoAw, sorry about that. What browser are you using?
- u238 17y agoI dont see it. Latest Firefox on OS X.
- wdewind 17y agosame
- elliottkember 17y agoOkay - figured it out, errant ' chars. Try again!
- carbocation 17y agoI do see them using chrome on Win 7.
- vgurgov 17y agowhy dont you get my location(from IP) and speed automatically and make adding simple one-click process?
- rbranson 17y agoThis is often very inaccurate.
- yurifury 17y agoCan you make add the control to switch to the map view? Looking around sometimes takes too long to load in Satellite mode, which is probably indicative of my broadband speed.
- elliottkember 17y agoDone! Hope that helps.
- sumeeta 17y agoI wish it would’ve zoomed in and opened my entry after I submitted. Kinda fun, though.
- elliottkember 17y agogood call - I'll add that :)
- lftl 17y agoIt would be interesting if you added in a question about price that people paid as well. While the sample size is small, I'm surprised that the US is largely on par with Europe in terms of speed. I'd expect though that price / speed is much better in Europe.
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