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I worked on a very similar idea for a while though admittedly failed to polish and market appropriately to gauge interest. I thought about a lot of the "issues"
by xhrpost 13y ago
I worked on a very similar idea for a while though admittedly failed to polish and market appropriately to gauge interest. I thought about a lot of the "issues" that people are bringing up here. My idea was mainly to try and emulate a digital CB radio. So you'd have the overlap issue as mentioned by nilkn, but I didn't see this as a problem in accomplishing the main objective. The main objective being to permit local, real-time communication. Why is the high way backed up to a stand still? Hop on local chat. Where is a good place to park for the outdoor concert? Hop on local chat. I'm new in the area and can't find 'blah' street. Ask on local chat.
- wmblaettler 13y agoI thought of the very same idea, but never even built it, I still think it would be cool. The main problem is that you have to have enough people on the network to make it useful.
- xhrpost 13y agoYup, hence rkuykendall-com's comment. Also this is where good marketing comes in. I tried some free Google ad credit and got tons of exposure but few clicks. My next guess would be to try large metro areas and retain old messages in hopes to bootstrap some conversation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed's_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed's_law