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I’ll probably never do it, so I’ll throw it out here as an idea: A journey-constrained social network. E.g. if you frequently travel between New York and Paris

I’ll probably never do it, so I’ll throw it out here as an idea: A journey-constrained social network. E.g. if you frequently travel between New York and Paris, you’ll be allowed to join the JFK-CDG group, then you can talk about travel deals, where to go in each city (as you’re likely from there or going there, and it’s a fair exchange with the other groups), what’s cheaper or worth buying as a gift from one place back to the other, etc. Doesn’t have to be flight specific as the journey method.

cmeacham98 4y ago
Leaving aside other problems (are there really enough travelers for pairs other than the most traveled airports?), how could you ever verify this?
- moralestapia 4y ago
  Are you in the middle of the ocean moving at 600mph towards <destination>?
  - evan_ 4y ago
    That determination would need to be done client side and is therefore vulnerable to spoofing
  - cmeacham98 4y ago
    A: Obviously spoofable B: GP said the intent was for "frequent travelers", i.e. I'm assuming one-off travelers are intended not to be allowed. Having to verify multiple trips before you can get in sounds like a horrible user experience.
samstave 4y ago
Me and a partner actually have an MVP built out for this. Its kind of stagnate right now, but this specifically does this: Define areas of interest. Create tour routes. Geo-specific content (You can post audio, links, etc, to a particular point of interest. When you arrive within the designated (content poster defined) area, and are within a certain range of the POI - the content can be auto played, such as the audio description of a view point, landmark etc. It will do way finding and pathing... We have a working MVP on android, but like I said its currently dormant. One feature that is useful to emergency responders is the ability to provide geo-cache locations, so when the scouts for firefighters are scoping a best route to address front-line wild fire, they can mark a point where they leave an equipment cache, take a photo of it and share the route with firefighters. We have a digital LED wayfinding strip in the brim of a hat - so you have the way finding light compass to tell you the way. We have a patent on the hat...
lars_francke 4y ago
There used to be dopplr.com which went into this direction. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/dopplr https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/dopplr
grishka 4y ago
There's this Jetlovers thing that connects to Foursquare/Swarm and logs your flights, provided you check in at every airport. You can follow people to see their recent flights in your news feed. Your idea feels like it belongs there.
jen20 4y ago
Flyertalk has something akin to this, but as forum threads. I’d be interested to see it on a broader level though!

cmeacham98 4y ago

Leaving aside other problems (are there really enough travelers for pairs other than the most traveled airports?), how could you ever verify this?

moralestapia 4y ago
Are you in the middle of the ocean moving at 600mph towards <destination>?
- evan_ 4y ago
  That determination would need to be done client side and is therefore vulnerable to spoofing
- cmeacham98 4y ago
  A: Obviously spoofable B: GP said the intent was for "frequent travelers", i.e. I'm assuming one-off travelers are intended not to be allowed. Having to verify multiple trips before you can get in sounds like a horrible user experience.

samstave 4y ago

Me and a partner actually have an MVP built out for this. Its kind of stagnate right now, but this specifically does this: Define areas of interest. Create tour routes. Geo-specific content (You can post audio, links, etc, to a particular point of interest. When you arrive within the designated (content poster defined) area, and are within a certain range of the POI - the content can be auto played, such as the audio description of a view point, landmark etc. It will do way finding and pathing... We have a working MVP on android, but like I said its currently dormant. One feature that is useful to emergency responders is the ability to provide geo-cache locations, so when the scouts for firefighters are scoping a best route to address front-line wild fire, they can mark a point where they leave an equipment cache, take a photo of it and share the route with firefighters. We have a digital LED wayfinding strip in the brim of a hat - so you have the way finding light compass to tell you the way. We have a patent on the hat...

lars_francke 4y ago

There used to be dopplr.com which went into this direction. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/dopplr https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/dopplr

grishka 4y ago

There's this Jetlovers thing that connects to Foursquare/Swarm and logs your flights, provided you check in at every airport. You can follow people to see their recent flights in your news feed. Your idea feels like it belongs there.

jen20 4y ago

Flyertalk has something akin to this, but as forum threads. I’d be interested to see it on a broader level though!