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by bubblic 4y ago
Nice, I love the graphics. Which framework did you use? Phaser? or just React?
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by bubblic 4y ago
I used Deck.gl and CARTO basemaps. https://deck.gl/docs/api-reference/carto/basemap You don't need a token to use this map, as long as you keep the usage to a reasonable limit (I think it says 1,000,000
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by bubblic 4y ago
oh yes, it is a huge issue! This article from 2013 already described that 50% of adults were suffering from loneliness. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-24522691 And it definitely got way worse during/after pan
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by bubblic 4y ago
haha, that last category is a must in any social platform where you can show pic/vid or draw something!
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by bubblic 4y ago
The comments were by genuine people, answering the survey questions. YC startup school videos had a concept called 'hair-on-fire' problem. There are many lonely people in the world whose 'hair-on-fire' problem is lonelin
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by bubblic 4y ago
I feel you! The prime motivation to create this webapp (and the future project that is in the oven) was from my extreme loneliness during grad school. I never thought that I would be someone to experience loneliness because I thought I was
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by bubblic 4y ago
It jumps to random places because a new person just logged their location! I wanted to make the whole experience dynamic and real. It worked well when there weren't so many people logging their location all at the same time haha I will
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by bubblic 4y ago
I logged myself into it, but clearly I was only logging only where I was at that point. I had the option to manipulate the database to pretend there were people there, but I chose not to. So, I had about 10 logs where I lived, and 1 log whe
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by bubblic 4y ago
Do you see the green message after you submit your location? If you keep seeing the red message, then it means the location has not been submitted, so the survey would not be available. Please keep me posted here if you keep experiencing
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by bubblic 4y ago
the algorithm works this way: The geolocation acquired by the webpage is in the form of latitude and longitude. Let's say it is lat: 10.123456, long: 30.123456 I want to approximate it to 3 mile accuracy (diagonal of a box, so in one d
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by bubblic 4y ago
You get me. I am torn between releasing cool features to help people feel connected and holding them back until I have established some sort of code of conduct. Move fast and break things along the way, or try to do it right, especially whe
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by bubblic 4y ago
Someone had a very good point that the wording seems to only imply that the loneliness is caused by lacking the listed qualities when in fact, some are lonely because of their strong attributes (good looking, smart, wealthy). I made an upda
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by bubblic 4y ago
Thanks for sharing the link! This stood out to me the most: "Correspondents rarely confess to the sort of skanky, self-destructive behavior found on Group Hug (“I slept with someone I work with. He’s married. I’m friends with his wife.
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by bubblic 4y ago
Thanks anigbrowl! I used a pre-built template from Tim for visual front end: https://www.creative-tim.com/templates/react-free . For hosting front and backend, I used AWS serverless architecture https://gith
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by bubblic 4y ago
I totally feel you. There is magic in connecting people from all over the world with the power of the internet, but it gets ruined by the few who spam and abuse the platform. I hope to prevent this by not offering any vanity feature right n
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I made a website for lonely people, and got >100 people to log their locations(lonelyworld.info)
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by bubblic 4y ago
The idea is that knowing there are lonely people out there can help you cope with loneliness a little. This is a minimum "viral" product for my upcoming project that allows meaningful connections between anonymous people using au
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by bubblic 4y ago
I hope lonely people out there find solace in knowing that they are not alone in their situation. People can also sign up on the waitlist for my upcoming app. Made this as a minimum "viral" product.