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Congratulations on shipping! Rolling up your sleeves for some location-based, real-time coding would have been a bit of fun right? Giants like Twitter have ob
by justsee 12y ago
Congratulations on shipping!
Rolling up your sleeves for some location-based, real-time coding would have been a bit of fun right?
Giants like Twitter have obviously had location-based tweets for a long time but a sizable segment of those users will always be reluctant to share their location against what can be a very public, linked account.
An app like this that allows anonymous users to jump into location-chats anywhere could be really useful.
Obviously geographic channels on IRC have existed for aeons and do the same thing, but putting it in a modern app for a new generation makes sense.
There are undoubtedly loads of other existing services and apps doing this kind of thing, but who cares if this is all a personal R&D mission right? You never know where it might lead.
Keep at it!
- Shout_App 12y agoThank you very much for your feedback, I really appreciate it! I've made a few iterations of this idea, but I am most proud of this one... at least I am improving. I see this app being similar to Yik Yak, the more popular app (that I know of) in this niche. I decided I wanted to do what I can to improve on this. Being anonymous/not requiring to sign up to use this app was one major component, which is done... but I wanted other users to be able to get to new locations and be able to contribute there (if you're familiar with Yik Yak, it's read-only at other locations other than your own). There are a lot of apps allowing location based apps, but I wasn't aware of any that made it... visual on a map like this app. IRC and other apps like this are mostly just the "message list" part and not see "more detail/context" on a map. It was a fun project to work on nonetheless :)