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Show HN: Somewhere – Instagram hack motivates you to travel more
- mrkyone 13y agoSmart hack! Where did you get those places from?
- BenjaminN 13y agoThe web and foursquare.
- rememberlenny 13y agoOne issue, the site highjacks the back button. Otherwise, beautifully amazing.
- BenjaminN 13y agoHey, thanks !
- dkordik 13y agoI was actually going to request some way to go back to a previous image. I didn't realize I could just use the back button. Glad you pointed that out! @OP: worth adding a back button in the site UI?
- BenjaminN 13y agoI will. And there's also a sidebar/menu when you click on the logo, but that's not obvious at all.
- morsch 13y agoI like it. How about adapting the background color gradient to the major colors of the picture? E.g. using https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6905547 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6905547
- BenjaminN 13y agoAhah, I had that idea too, but there's a security problem with images from Instagram. Long story short: they don't allow cross-origin resource sharing, so that doesn't work.
- legohead 13y agoplease don't take over my back button
- BenjaminN 13y agoMan, I'm so sorry for your back button, I hope he's okay :3
- tchadwick 13y agoI really like this. I've already found some interesting places!
- BenjaminN 13y agoI have a lot of favorite ones, but the craziest is certainly this one: http://smwh.re/door-to-hell http://smwh.re/door-to-hell I finally have a good reason to go to Turkmenistan !
- duiker101 13y agoLove the idea! I tried and the first result was a place in London, cool but I basically live 40 min away. The second was Auschwitz. I was kinda not too motivated. But still very nice!
- BenjaminN 13y agoRandomness is not nice with you today, I'm sorry. My advice: don't play any lottery game.
- bgnm2000 13y agoThis is awesome - only wish it were faster, and that I could save my favorites.
- BenjaminN 13y agoMight be slow because of the HN effect. Saving a place is a great idea, but that means creating accounts, and that complicates everything. You might just "like" the place on facebook.
- Ryanmf 13y agoHow are you curating these images? Which is to say, how are you ensuring that I see a really great photo of the Azure Window[0] (which happened to be posted two weeks ago) rather than whichever random one Ig turns up first? I had a semi-similar idea (but focused on graffiti) but all the restrictions in their API terms were sort of a turn off. [0] http://instagram.com/p/itwBoKwBnp/ http://instagram.com/p/itwBoKwBnp/
- BenjaminN 13y agoI told more about this on Cool Hunting [0] but basically I'm manually selecting the best one. So I have a list of ~150 shots, I'm sorting by likes (which most of the time is not relevant at all) and removing all the #selfies using a face recognition algorithm. [0] http://www.coolhunting.com/travel/smwhre-app.php http://www.coolhunting.com/travel/smwhre-app.php