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Show HN: Ping.gy – An app to connect with people within 1km from you

62 points by vasanthv 8y ago

quangio 8y ago
I am building a similar mobile app at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=zero.sleep.comchat https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=zero.sleep.com... I haven't launched it yet though. My goal is not a YikYak clone but an issue/karma tracker for real-world interaction.
agentd00nut 8y ago
If your curious to see what a more popular area looks like you can just hit https://ping.gy/api/ping?location=40.7128,-74.0060&skip=0 https://ping.gy/api/ping?location=40.7128,-74.0060&skip=0 Posting into that is just as easy. Made this a bit more fun since no one was around for me.
theveloped 8y ago
Looks amazing great work on finishing a great looking project! I made a similar application for iOS (www.zonemessenger.com) a while back with the same intent of getting people in contact within a 1km radius (have since updated the radius to match local demand). And although I still think it could be a very valuable type of platform it is extremely hard to build the right community with enough critical mass. Best of luck! And if you ever want exchange experiences I'd be happy to help.
ncouture 8y ago
I would like to see this kind of service work to allow meeting fellow local hackers. If interested please contact me (nicolas@kisscalls.com); I would like to donate to you the domain name "hackers.express".
foxhop 8y ago
Cool, I built this last year during a hackathon. It wasn't a chat but a forum. I've built chats before but it didn't seem as useful. My idea was to provide a way to augment reality, add context to your location, see what other people that were there before said, sort of like a virtual message in a bottle.
icebraining 8y ago
Another Yik Yak? Get ready for the fallout.
staticelf 8y ago
It should show where it thinks I am.
developius 8y ago
This is so cool. Simple, quick, effective. Good job, will be interested to see how it progresses.
Asturaz 8y ago
Almost like Maritime VHF radio. The HAM radio guys are doing more crazy stuff so I don't count them.
cpplinuxdude 8y ago
no users around me and I'm fairly central in London. Why not connect with the n closest users instead?
- Sir_Substance 8y ago
  Ya, I like this as an idea. It's tricky to handle the subdivisions, you might need something more like a minimum size before subdivision instead.
- Cu3PO42 8y ago
  I second this. I am currently in a middle sized city in Germany that is not exactly focused on technology. I didn't expect to see any users (and I didn't). Even at significantly higher adoption, I can't imagine that I would ever see another soul on there. Such a change would make the tool a lot more useful in areas like mine.
- vasanthv 8y ago
  We just launched this today. Though it is a bad idea to roll out globally for this idea. I did want to spread the word and then target area wise. Not sure if it is gonna work.
  - seszett 8y ago
    I think you best bet would be to use either real world population density, or connected users density to scale the communication distance, so that people don't have to stay alone, and at the same time you still have a meaningfully limited range. I don't think anyone will just stay connected alone in the hope that someone else may connect later.
herbst 8y ago
It's just a pulsing smiley and a short description for me.
- dingo_bat 8y ago
  Same here. It didn't ask me for any location permission either, so I don't know how it would know where I am.
  - yoz-y 8y ago
    It did ask me for location (on Safari).
Cu3PO42 8y ago
Unfortunately I wasn't really able to test this out as there are no users in my area, but I was wondering how you are tackling / plan to tackle the following problem: Suppose two people are almost but not quite 1km away from each other and are having a conversation on there. To a third person who has one of these people in range, but not the other, the messages might seem quite confusing and/or they might feel addressed even though they are not. A possible solution might be to define fixed cells of roughly 1km in diameter instead of using immediate neighbourhoods centered around every participant. Or you could dynamically create rooms and you are added to the closest one to you (up to some maximum size)? The latter might also help with getting any users at all in less densely populated areas.
- vasanthv 8y ago
  Yes that can be a solution. The plan was to create a way to connect with people within a small neighbourhood or campus or building. 1KM is a max. distance to cover this area. So I was not planning for this scenario at all :)
- wccrawford 8y ago
  I played a MUD that had a distance system, and even some of the devices had longer distance than others. What would happen would be that people would just communicate as best they could, and occasionally ask people to rely what they were saying in a general direction. Of course, with a very limited world and a communication range of about 1/4 of the north-south distance of that world, relaying was pretty easy. There were other in-game ways to send and receive messages, but none were nearly as convenient as this one. The real world, however, has plenty of convenient communication methods.
- hyder_m29 8y ago
  An ideal solution would be to define cells based on clusters of people and connect anomalous persons to the nearest cluster. This should not only provide an optimum groups sizes based on an area's population, but also allow remote users to interact.
- lainga 8y ago
  Funnily enough, this sounds like a human version of the hidden-terminal problem in wireless networking. But it's addressed in 802.11 by sending information about the other party with each packet, which wouldn't be desirable here.
Double_a_92 8y ago
So like Jodel, Whisper, ...?
jokoon 8y ago
Already got the idea and published it. Frankly the 1km radius is not a good idea, it will flood messages in crowded area, and display none in others.
- vasanthv 8y ago
  Yes agreed. But is a good distance to cover a small neighbourhood or campus.
  - codingdave 8y ago
    Yes, and that can bring a sense of community to a place that doesn't already have one. But I'm unsure how many neighborhoods or campuses would both not already have some ways of communicating... yet still want to create one. Physical proximity removes communications barriers, so you are solving a problem that may not exist.
    - vasanthv 8y ago
      Yes but unless they both are in same room. Imagine a soccer match or any tech event. These are some use cases I thought of while building this.
- afarrell 8y ago
  Perhaps draw a Voronoi diagram of pubs in the UK and use that?
- timrichard 8y ago
  This occurred to me as well about 7yrs ago (did nothing about it, naturally.... :-} ). I think I was going to christen it HocSoc (ad-hoc social network). I was thinking about getting around that feast or famine scenario by encoding the user location as a geohash. And then chop off one char of precision from the end of the hash string on successive DB queries until a large enough group of people were included. Nice and easy to store and query the location as a plain string in the DB, too. Although - I was trying to figure out what to do about Greenwich near me, as that's where the most significant bit alters because of the prime meridian.
seszett 8y ago
For some reason, I only get a red message saying "Invalid location co-ordinates." when I try to post something (not that I expect anyone else to be within 1 km of me anyway). On Firefox on desktop, clicked "yes" when asked to share my location.
- vasanthv 8y ago
  That is weird. May I know where are you located?
  - seszett 8y ago
    Apparently Firefox locates me at 50.6138111,3.0423598999999997 (which is actually 3 km away from where I am, but that's not your fault) but your API responds with {"message":"Invalid location co-ordinates."}. Maybe it's a problem with the decimals in 3.0423598999999997?
eric24234 8y ago
How do you measure the distance ? postgis ?
- vasanthv 8y ago
  Using MongoDb geonear
fergonco 8y ago
Bug report: hitting ENTER n times sends the message n times. Until the message box is cleared.
- vasanthv 8y ago
  Thanks will fix it shortly.
Freak_NL 8y ago
I don't see any feedback on what my current location is. I know my home ISP assigns me an IP address that location services place a 100km away from me — users have no way of verifying if their location was picked up correctly.
- vasanthv 8y ago
  Thanks for this suggestion, will consider adding this. BTW, We don't use location from ISP, we get location form GPS. So it will be more accurate than getting from ISP.
  - Freak_NL 8y ago
    I don't think my laptop provides you with coordinates based on GPS.
    - icebraining 8y ago
      Indirectly, it can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_positioning_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_positioning_system (At least Chrome and Firefox can use this system; I'm no sure about the other browsers)
stevespang 8y ago
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head>  <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-117837562-1"></script> https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-117837562-1">... <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag() { dataLayer.push(arguments); } gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'UA-117837562-1'); </script> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, height=device-height, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0" /> <meta name="description" content="Ping.gy lets you connect with people within 1km from you, by sharing short messages with them." /> <meta name="keywords" content="proximity, near by, nearby, around you, same place, same building, same event" /> <meta name="author" content="Vasanth V" /> <meta name="copyright" content="© 2017 Ping.gy" /> <meta name="legal" content="By using Ping.gy you agree to the following terms: This service is provided under an 'AS IS' condition. The creator of this service can't be held liable in any way for any reason." /> <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" /> <meta name="mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" /> <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black" /> <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-title" content="Ping.gy" /> <meta name="msapplication-TileColor" content="#EFEFEF"> <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no" /> <meta name="application-name" content="Ping.gy" /> <meta name="theme-color" content="#EFEFEF"> <meta property="og:url" content="https://ping.gy" https://ping.gy" /> <meta property="og:image" content="https://ping.gy/icon.png" https://ping.gy/icon.png" /> <meta property="og:title" content="Ping.gy" /> <meta property="og:description" content="Ping.gy lets you connect with people within 1km from you, by sharing short messages with them." /> <link type="text/plain" rel="author" href="humans.txt" /> <link rel="author" href="https://twitter.com/vsnthv"> https://twitter.com/vsnthv"> <link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" /> <link rel="icon" href="icon.png" type="image/png" /> <link rel="icon" href="icon.svg" sizes="any" type="image/svg+xml" /> <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/apple-touch-icon.png" type="image/png" /> <link rel="manifest" href="/manifest.json"> <title>Ping.gy</title> <script defer src="https://www.gstatic.com/firebasejs/4.9.1/firebase.js"></script> https://www.gstatic.com/firebasejs/4.9.1/firebase.js"></scri... <script defer src="script.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <link href="style.css" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" /> </head> <body ontouchstart=""> <div class="wrap"> <header> <div id="logo"> <svg version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 20 20" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <circle cx="10" cy="10" r="8" fill="#333" /> <g transform="matrix(1.25,0,0,-1.25,10,12)" fill="#eee"> <path transform="scale(0.4)" d="m 0,0 c -2.966,0 -4.935,0.346 -7.369,0.819 -0.557,0.107 -1.638,0 -1.638,-1.637 0,-3.276 3.763,-7.37 9.007,-7.37 5.244,0 9.007,4.094 9.007,7.37 0,1.637 -1.082,1.745 -1.638,1.637 C 4.936,0.346 2.967,0 0,0" /> </g> </svg> </div> <div id="nearby"></div> </header> <section id="intro"> <p> <strong class="danger">Ping.gy</strong> lets you connect with people within 1km from you, by sharing short messages with them. </p> </section> <section id="sticky" style="display: none;"> <div class="ping"> <span id="handle" class="handle"></span> <span id="typebox" class="message" contenteditable="true"></span> <span id="notify" class="meta"></span> </div> </section> <section id="pings"></section> </div> <audio id="audio" src="ping.mp3"></audio> </body> </html>
076ae80a-3c97-4 8y ago
Your parsing isn't too great. Try posting this: <img src=x onerror=alert(123) />
- vasanthv 8y ago
  Thanks for reporting. Fixed it.
augustocallejas 8y ago
I'm currently at Disney World where there are thousands of folks within 1 km of me, but when I visit this page on iOS, I don't see any place to message on the main page. It just shows the logo and the explainer text. It would be nice to at least leave a message in my area, so future users can see it.
raihansaputra 8y ago
Can I suggest to have timestamps on the chatlog? A bit disorienting to not know when the last conversation happened.
- vasanthv 8y ago
  Thanks.. Have added it.
  - raihansaputra 8y ago
    Thanks for the change!
_bxg1 8y ago
I was disappointed to find it isn't a mesh network app
Uplink 8y ago
Timestamps. How do I know when the other messages I'm seeing were posted? Maybe those people have long gone and I have no idea I'm talking into thin air.
mwest 8y ago
Reminds me of Jodel and the now-defunct Yik Yak. Yik Yak took the "cells" or "herds" approach. Some history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yik_Yak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yik_Yak I'm not sure how you're going to avoid the same issues that Yik Yak faced. "Ambient social networking" isn't new, but it's never taken off. Some reading: https://www.quora.com/Why-have-almost-all-location-based-messaging-apps-failed https://www.quora.com/Why-have-almost-all-location-based-mes... https://techcrunch.com/2013/07/23/location-vs-communication/ https://techcrunch.com/2013/07/23/location-vs-communication/
SomeT 8y ago
Because I live in the middle of nowhere and no one uses technology much here I decided to use a VPN as to which your site then gives me the following error: https://gyazo.com/3d54b08e90205e92e7744a086d92a703 https://gyazo.com/3d54b08e90205e92e7744a086d92a703
vubui 8y ago
But why? why would you need this?

62 points by vasanthv 8y ago

I am building a similar mobile app at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=zero.sleep.comchat https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=zero.sleep.com... I haven't launched it yet though. My goal is not a YikYak clone but an issue/karma tracker for real-world interaction.

agentd00nut 8y ago

If your curious to see what a more popular area looks like you can just hit https://ping.gy/api/ping?location=40.7128,-74.0060&skip=0 https://ping.gy/api/ping?location=40.7128,-74.0060&skip=0 Posting into that is just as easy. Made this a bit more fun since no one was around for me.

theveloped 8y ago

Looks amazing great work on finishing a great looking project! I made a similar application for iOS (www.zonemessenger.com) a while back with the same intent of getting people in contact within a 1km radius (have since updated the radius to match local demand). And although I still think it could be a very valuable type of platform it is extremely hard to build the right community with enough critical mass. Best of luck! And if you ever want exchange experiences I'd be happy to help.

ncouture 8y ago

I would like to see this kind of service work to allow meeting fellow local hackers. If interested please contact me (nicolas@kisscalls.com); I would like to donate to you the domain name "hackers.express".

foxhop 8y ago

Cool, I built this last year during a hackathon. It wasn't a chat but a forum. I've built chats before but it didn't seem as useful. My idea was to provide a way to augment reality, add context to your location, see what other people that were there before said, sort of like a virtual message in a bottle.

icebraining 8y ago

Another Yik Yak? Get ready for the fallout.

staticelf 8y ago

It should show where it thinks I am.

developius 8y ago

This is so cool. Simple, quick, effective. Good job, will be interested to see how it progresses.

Asturaz 8y ago

Almost like Maritime VHF radio. The HAM radio guys are doing more crazy stuff so I don't count them.

cpplinuxdude 8y ago

no users around me and I'm fairly central in London. Why not connect with the n closest users instead?

Sir_Substance 8y ago
Ya, I like this as an idea. It's tricky to handle the subdivisions, you might need something more like a minimum size before subdivision instead.
Cu3PO42 8y ago
I second this. I am currently in a middle sized city in Germany that is not exactly focused on technology. I didn't expect to see any users (and I didn't). Even at significantly higher adoption, I can't imagine that I would ever see another soul on there. Such a change would make the tool a lot more useful in areas like mine.
vasanthv 8y ago
We just launched this today. Though it is a bad idea to roll out globally for this idea. I did want to spread the word and then target area wise. Not sure if it is gonna work.
- seszett 8y ago
  I think you best bet would be to use either real world population density, or connected users density to scale the communication distance, so that people don't have to stay alone, and at the same time you still have a meaningfully limited range. I don't think anyone will just stay connected alone in the hope that someone else may connect later.

herbst 8y ago

It's just a pulsing smiley and a short description for me.

dingo_bat 8y ago
Same here. It didn't ask me for any location permission either, so I don't know how it would know where I am.
- yoz-y 8y ago
  It did ask me for location (on Safari).

Cu3PO42 8y ago

Unfortunately I wasn't really able to test this out as there are no users in my area, but I was wondering how you are tackling / plan to tackle the following problem: Suppose two people are almost but not quite 1km away from each other and are having a conversation on there. To a third person who has one of these people in range, but not the other, the messages might seem quite confusing and/or they might feel addressed even though they are not. A possible solution might be to define fixed cells of roughly 1km in diameter instead of using immediate neighbourhoods centered around every participant. Or you could dynamically create rooms and you are added to the closest one to you (up to some maximum size)? The latter might also help with getting any users at all in less densely populated areas.

vasanthv 8y ago
Yes that can be a solution. The plan was to create a way to connect with people within a small neighbourhood or campus or building. 1KM is a max. distance to cover this area. So I was not planning for this scenario at all :)
wccrawford 8y ago
I played a MUD that had a distance system, and even some of the devices had longer distance than others. What would happen would be that people would just communicate as best they could, and occasionally ask people to rely what they were saying in a general direction. Of course, with a very limited world and a communication range of about 1/4 of the north-south distance of that world, relaying was pretty easy. There were other in-game ways to send and receive messages, but none were nearly as convenient as this one. The real world, however, has plenty of convenient communication methods.
hyder_m29 8y ago
An ideal solution would be to define cells based on clusters of people and connect anomalous persons to the nearest cluster. This should not only provide an optimum groups sizes based on an area's population, but also allow remote users to interact.
lainga 8y ago
Funnily enough, this sounds like a human version of the hidden-terminal problem in wireless networking. But it's addressed in 802.11 by sending information about the other party with each packet, which wouldn't be desirable here.

Double_a_92 8y ago

So like Jodel, Whisper, ...?

jokoon 8y ago

Already got the idea and published it. Frankly the 1km radius is not a good idea, it will flood messages in crowded area, and display none in others.

vasanthv 8y ago
Yes agreed. But is a good distance to cover a small neighbourhood or campus.
- codingdave 8y ago
  Yes, and that can bring a sense of community to a place that doesn't already have one. But I'm unsure how many neighborhoods or campuses would both not already have some ways of communicating... yet still want to create one. Physical proximity removes communications barriers, so you are solving a problem that may not exist.
  - vasanthv 8y ago
    Yes but unless they both are in same room. Imagine a soccer match or any tech event. These are some use cases I thought of while building this.
afarrell 8y ago
Perhaps draw a Voronoi diagram of pubs in the UK and use that?
timrichard 8y ago
This occurred to me as well about 7yrs ago (did nothing about it, naturally.... :-} ). I think I was going to christen it HocSoc (ad-hoc social network). I was thinking about getting around that feast or famine scenario by encoding the user location as a geohash. And then chop off one char of precision from the end of the hash string on successive DB queries until a large enough group of people were included. Nice and easy to store and query the location as a plain string in the DB, too. Although - I was trying to figure out what to do about Greenwich near me, as that's where the most significant bit alters because of the prime meridian.

seszett 8y ago

For some reason, I only get a red message saying "Invalid location co-ordinates." when I try to post something (not that I expect anyone else to be within 1 km of me anyway). On Firefox on desktop, clicked "yes" when asked to share my location.

vasanthv 8y ago
That is weird. May I know where are you located?
- seszett 8y ago
  Apparently Firefox locates me at 50.6138111,3.0423598999999997 (which is actually 3 km away from where I am, but that's not your fault) but your API responds with {"message":"Invalid location co-ordinates."}. Maybe it's a problem with the decimals in 3.0423598999999997?

eric24234 8y ago

How do you measure the distance ? postgis ?

vasanthv 8y ago
Using MongoDb geonear

fergonco 8y ago

Bug report: hitting ENTER n times sends the message n times. Until the message box is cleared.

vasanthv 8y ago
Thanks will fix it shortly.

Freak_NL 8y ago

I don't see any feedback on what my current location is. I know my home ISP assigns me an IP address that location services place a 100km away from me — users have no way of verifying if their location was picked up correctly.

vasanthv 8y ago
Thanks for this suggestion, will consider adding this. BTW, We don't use location from ISP, we get location form GPS. So it will be more accurate than getting from ISP.
- Freak_NL 8y ago
  I don't think my laptop provides you with coordinates based on GPS.
  - icebraining 8y ago
    Indirectly, it can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_positioning_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_positioning_system (At least Chrome and Firefox can use this system; I'm no sure about the other browsers)

stevespang 8y ago

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076ae80a-3c97-4 8y ago

Your parsing isn't too great. Try posting this: <img src=x onerror=alert(123) />

vasanthv 8y ago
Thanks for reporting. Fixed it.

augustocallejas 8y ago

I'm currently at Disney World where there are thousands of folks within 1 km of me, but when I visit this page on iOS, I don't see any place to message on the main page. It just shows the logo and the explainer text. It would be nice to at least leave a message in my area, so future users can see it.

raihansaputra 8y ago

Can I suggest to have timestamps on the chatlog? A bit disorienting to not know when the last conversation happened.

vasanthv 8y ago
Thanks.. Have added it.
- raihansaputra 8y ago
  Thanks for the change!

_bxg1 8y ago

I was disappointed to find it isn't a mesh network app

Uplink 8y ago

Timestamps. How do I know when the other messages I'm seeing were posted? Maybe those people have long gone and I have no idea I'm talking into thin air.

mwest 8y ago

Reminds me of Jodel and the now-defunct Yik Yak. Yik Yak took the "cells" or "herds" approach. Some history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yik_Yak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yik_Yak I'm not sure how you're going to avoid the same issues that Yik Yak faced. "Ambient social networking" isn't new, but it's never taken off. Some reading: https://www.quora.com/Why-have-almost-all-location-based-messaging-apps-failed https://www.quora.com/Why-have-almost-all-location-based-mes... https://techcrunch.com/2013/07/23/location-vs-communication/ https://techcrunch.com/2013/07/23/location-vs-communication/

SomeT 8y ago

Because I live in the middle of nowhere and no one uses technology much here I decided to use a VPN as to which your site then gives me the following error: https://gyazo.com/3d54b08e90205e92e7744a086d92a703 https://gyazo.com/3d54b08e90205e92e7744a086d92a703

vubui 8y ago

But why? why would you need this?