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Web app ideas
- dchest 15y ago1. Nice idea, maybe I should built this into "I Write Like" (BTW, it still works: http://iwl.me http://iwl.me) ;-)
- karterk 15y agoI remember it going viral! Curious to find out how it's doing now in terms of traffic.
- dchest 15y agoNow it's down to about 1500 to 4000 visitors per day. As you can see here: http://i.imgur.com/V5xMr.png http://i.imgur.com/V5xMr.png the viral effect lasted for about a month.
- danoc 15y agoNice to see that people are still visting it! Is most of the traffic direct or from search engines?
- alinajaf 15y agoThat made my day, apparently I write like William Gibson!
- lkozma 15y agoYes, that was the one I was thinking about. Apparently I write like Cory Doctorow :) Added link.
- jayliew 15y agoIt said I write like Cory Doctorow too. Hey ...
- lhnz 15y agoAn interesting change might be to allow it to scrape tumblr for a user's text. That might make it even more viral.
- keyle 15y agoWhile I'm not interested in pursuing any of those I appreciate thinkers out there that push their ideas live. Would up vote this 5 times over some bit coin lulsecz space station news... Keep em coming!
- teadrinker 15y agoAgreed. Only one of these ideas has financial potential, and even then it's not an easy market to tap for that particular service. Still, it's nice to see some idea flow as it always gets the juices flowing.
- karterk 15y agoAbout the idea 4 (World map live postcard). I made something similar here: http://iambored.wreally.com/ http://iambored.wreally.com/ It's a real time map showing who is currently viewing that page (you need HTML5 geolocation api). However it never took off because for it to be fun you need to get a bunch of people on it at the same time.
- marquis 15y agoMay I suggest the view starts out with the entire globe? It zoomed in for me, and had to intuitively know to press the + key to zoom out where I saw a couple of others. If you had clearer zoom controls and a more visible icon for each user it would be more interesting. Posting something like this to google+ right now could generate a huge number of people checking it out.
- karterk 15y agoThanks for your suggestion! There is a snag in Google maps which causes grey areas to start appearing outside the boundaries of the world map (on top and bottom). Which kinda sucks because it makes the map look ugly. That's why I had to set it in this zoom size. But what you said completely makes sense. I am going to go ahead and change it to a lower zoom.
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- Aresfeda 15y agoDoes anybody know if there's already something like the world map radio? Can't find anything on google.
- based2 15y agohttp://radiomap.eu http://radiomap.eu
- roinsh 15y agoAbout Idea 2, Streema (http://streema.com/radios http://streema.com/radios) offers a curated set of stations from around the world although not plotted on a map.
- endlessvoid94 15y agoThe world map in realtime is interesting. The iphone app Beluga does this (they got bought by FB) sorta, but in reverse. They focus on the chat, and have the ability to see a map of where everyone is located. It's pretty slick.
- mmacneil 15y agoThought #6 was neat and I was bored so I created http://www.namestofaces.com http://www.namestofaces.com