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Show HN: Nearish, My latest web app - a map-based Facebook group chat
- joevennix 15y agoNearish lets you roam around a map and chat with other Facebook users nearby. It uses node.js on the backend and jQuery on the frontend. I wrote it in about a month and a half... my understanding of Javascript has improved a ton! Any feedback is appreciated :)
- timerickson 15y agoI wish it already knew where I was. This is possible by IP geo-location.
- joevennix 15y agoActually, it should do that, but the URL I linked to is http://nearish.com/#San_Francisco http://nearish.com/#San_Francisco , which the page automatically routes to San Francisco. Visiting http://nearish.com http://nearish.com should geolocate you via IP. I use the MaxMind geolocation database to do this locally in node.js on the backend using node.js's native extensions. I actually made this into a library that's available here: https://github.com/joevennix/GeoIP-js https://github.com/joevennix/GeoIP-js