Unfortunately I wasn't really able to test this out as there are no users in my area, but I was wondering how you are tackling / plan to tackle the following problem:<p>Suppose two people are almost but not quite 1km away from each other and are having a conversation on there. To a third person who has one of these people in range, but not the other, the messages might seem quite confusing and/or they might feel addressed even though they are not.<p>A possible solution might be to define fixed cells of roughly 1km in diameter instead of using immediate neighbourhoods centered around every participant.
Or you could dynamically create rooms and you are added to the closest one to you (up to some maximum size)? The latter might also help with getting any users at all in less densely populated areas.
Reminds me of Jodel and the now-defunct Yik Yak.<p>Yik Yak took the "cells" or "herds" approach. Some history here: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yik_Yak" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yik_Yak</a><p>I'm not sure how you're going to avoid the same issues that Yik Yak faced.<p>"Ambient social networking" isn't new, but it's never taken off. Some reading:<p><a href="https://www.quora.com/Why-have-almost-all-location-based-messaging-apps-failed" rel="nofollow">https://www.quora.com/Why-have-almost-all-location-based-mes...</a><p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/07/23/location-vs-communication/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2013/07/23/location-vs-communication/</a>
I'm currently at Disney World where there are thousands of folks within 1 km of me, but when I visit this page on iOS, I don't see any place to message on the main page. It just shows the logo and the explainer text.<p>It would be nice to at least leave a message in my area, so future users can see it.
I don't see any feedback on <i>what</i> my current location is. I know my home ISP assigns me an IP address that location services place a 100km away from me — users have no way of verifying if their location was picked up correctly.
Already got the idea and published it.<p>Frankly the 1km radius is not a good idea, it will flood messages in crowded area, and display none in others.
Cool, I built this last year during a hackathon. It wasn't a chat but a forum. I've built chats before but it didn't seem as useful.<p>My idea was to provide a way to augment reality, add context to your location, see what other people that were there before said, sort of like a virtual message in a bottle.
For some reason, I only get a red message saying "Invalid location co-ordinates." when I try to post something (not that I expect anyone else to be within 1 km of me anyway).<p>On Firefox on desktop, clicked "yes" when asked to share my location.
Looks amazing great work on finishing a great looking project! I made a similar application for iOS (www.zonemessenger.com) a while back with the same intent of getting people in contact within a 1km radius (have since updated the radius to match local demand).<p>And although I still think it could be a very valuable type of platform it is extremely hard to build the right community with enough critical mass. Best of luck! And if you ever want exchange experiences I'd be happy to help.
Timestamps.<p>How do I know when the other messages I'm seeing were posted? Maybe those people have long gone and I have no idea I'm talking into thin air.
I am building a similar mobile app at <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=zero.sleep.comchat" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=zero.sleep.com...</a><p>I haven't launched it yet though. My goal is not a YikYak clone but an issue/karma tracker for real-world interaction.
If your curious to see what a more popular area looks like you can just hit <a href="https://ping.gy/api/ping?location=40.7128,-74.0060&skip=0" rel="nofollow">https://ping.gy/api/ping?location=40.7128,-74.0060&skip=0</a><p>Posting into that is just as easy.<p>Made this a bit more fun since no one was around for me.
Because I live in the middle of nowhere and no one uses technology much here I decided to use a VPN as to which your site then gives me the following error: <a href="https://gyazo.com/3d54b08e90205e92e7744a086d92a703" rel="nofollow">https://gyazo.com/3d54b08e90205e92e7744a086d92a703</a>
I would like to see this kind of service work to allow meeting fellow local hackers.<p>If interested please contact me (nicolas@kisscalls.com); I would like to donate to you the domain name "hackers.express".