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Another Stupid iPhone app. Really?
- edwardlsullivan 11y agoHa. This concept was originally done 5 years ago by a YC-backed company called Just Spotted. They exited to Google and built G+.
- rtauati 11y agoI meant to make my own comments about it, but HN was not allowing text for some reason. My cousin called me a few months back and said she was trying to basically stalk a celebrity while in NY. She was demanding that I make an app to do that. I LOL'ed. Then I got to thinking about software that uses crowds to do cool things (like Kickstarter, reddit users searching for the Boston Marathon bomber, etc). So I decided to build it. 4 months later, #spotted was born. I'm still kinda rolling my eyes a bit embarrassed that I used precious time to build this thing. When a person is spotted, all of their twitter followers (that use the #spotted app) get a push notification. Hopefully something positive comes out of it after all.
- allenbrunson 11y agourl shorteners are not allowed here. the fact that this submission wasn't immediately banned is no doubt due to the fact that the hn maintainers haven't heard of this one yet. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9600899 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9600899