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For awhile, I've thought that the problem with Bump is that it requires that the other person shares the same app (although recently I discovered that you can a
by jaredsohn 13y ago
For awhile, I've thought that the problem with Bump is that it requires that the other person shares the same app (although recently I discovered that you can ask the other person to browse to http://bu.mp http://bu.mp). So I have been working on the side on an HTML5 mobile solution that allows sharing contact information and messages with people nearby by just asking them to go to a URL.
The site needs a big UI and workflow revamp (already worked out on paper) and won't scale right now (it just uses a single instance of Meteor and a MongoDB database and doesn't handle Internet-scale abuse.)
You can see the current iteration at http://www.near.im/ http://www.near.im/.
- Rygu 13y agoI was trying it on my iMac and phone, opened the website on both devices, then it somewhat disappointed me (should have looked better) by asking to sign in with Facebook. A login-less demo would sell itself better.
- jaredsohn 13y agoThanks for checking it out. Yeah, the UI is ugly and overly complicated right now. It is really more of a technical demo and a project for me to experiment with Meteor on at this point (it has zero active users.) I am presently requiring a login to post to (in theory) prevent flooding it with spam. The person who is receiving the message does not need to log in. I have thought about removing the Facebook login requirement either for now (when there aren't many users) or permanently (need to have a way to prevent spam.)