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I almost created one of these, except for news. Hyper-local news is largely missing - I was going to mash up Twitter, Instagram, and in-app updates to help peop
by jcutrell 13y ago
I almost created one of these, except for news. Hyper-local news is largely missing - I was going to mash up Twitter, Instagram, and in-app updates to help people get a sense of what's happening immediately around them.
This is actually a great idea to solve this problem though.
The news use-case is for city life. When you hear a gunshot or a car accident occurs on your street or you see smoke off in the distance or you hear music playing nearby or you see a drove of cop cars driving by - how can you find out more about that?
News doesn't have a hyper local channel, but it could.
This app points at a bigger market - the "directly nearby" market - that really has only been fully tapped by mapping/location-sourcing applications.
- jroll 13y agoI would pay good money for this - I'm always trying to figure that sort of thing out and it always ends up as a bunch of random googling or trying to remember to check the news in a few hours.
- jaredsohn 13y agoCheck out http://app.bg/ http://app.bg/. It shows local Instagrams, Foursquare tips and tweets. Also http://www.nearbytweets.com http://www.nearbytweets.com
- drum 13y agothanks! one of our biggest goals was to maintain privacy by only requiring a username to sign up.
- muratmutlu 13y agoAnd we made InstaBAM for finding instagram users and photos near you (or anywhere on a map) https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/instabam!-explore-instagram/id437615875 https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/instabam!-explore-instagram/...