I think the original title referred to how this was some group of teenagers' first coding project. I think the mods should change it back - this shouldn't be viewed with the same harsh eyes as many startups are.
I personally use Path and love the "neighborhood" alerts which periodically post to Path "Nathan is in Downtown Austin", "Nathan is in Barton Hills, Austin", etc. This system is very elegant and seamless because it posts directly to the social feed without any effort.<p>From the landing page for the app I'm unsure of how this app works, or what purpose the shortlink serves. Why not make the app link to Facebook, Twitter and other social networks and just post neighborhood information automatically like Path does? (Or maybe if they have privacy concerns with the press of one button.) This would be much simpler, easy to explain, and would doubtlessly be well received by those whose social networking apps don't have this useful feature of Path built in.
Interesting.<p>I tried to get my friends to sign up for Google Latitude but they didn't like the idea of it broadcasting a location when not needed.<p>So maybe an expiring short link is a better approach.<p>I like it.
No demo video, no explanation. Why do I need yet another app for this?<p>html5, javascript, geolocation apis, social networking sites with client-side sharing capabilities. These are all the things I need to build a simple service that does what's described here. Why is this an app?
How is this different from 'Find My Friends' by Apple[1] considering that this is iOS only at present?<p>[1] - <a href="http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/find-my-friends.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/find-my-friends.html</a>
I don't want to broadcast my location constantly. But I would like the ability to grant permission to some of my friends and family to be able to look up my location when they need it. I'd also like a log and a notification when they look it up, so I know I'm not being stalked, and so they actually put thought into deciding whether or not it's appropriate to look up my location before doing so.<p>I imagine an app which doesn't send my location to a third party service on an interval. When somebody wants to look up my location, the app on their phone sends a request to some third party service over the Internet, which then pushes a request for my location to my phone. The first time the request comes in from a particular user, it asks me if I'd like to grant them this privilege permanently, temporarily, or to block it. If I grant it, then I don't need to approve future lookups but I am alerted to them happening.<p>[edit] The requests could also be of the style: "Let me know when you arrive at location x", instead of just "Let me know where you are now". Would be handy for meeting up at places on nights out.
It's a great hobby project, but as a product it is late to the market.<p><a href="http://www.glympse.com/what_is_glympse" rel="nofollow">http://www.glympse.com/what_is_glympse</a> has had a product out for several years now.
It should implement a "Launch in Maps app" feature for Android and iOS on web interface. This will help users to get directions and make this 2x useful.
Checkout <a href="http://0.mk/maps" rel="nofollow">http://0.mk/maps</a> - True, its non-realtime but<p>- it has directions for the link recipient. Voice directions. (ok, the voice is basic but sufficient)<p>- you can also draw and tag other stuff on the map - if you want.<p>- its fully HTML5-based. Works on desktop, iOS, Android.<p>- works without a backend server (bit.ly for URLs, map quest open directions). You can host your own easily. Infact this one is hosted on github pages.
I know I'm going off on a tangent but I'd be weary on putting anything on a Belarus domain name. If you're not selling to or dealing with Belorussians directly, you're most likely not affected by it but a country that can do this – <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16407235" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16407235</a> – should be treated with caution.
Here's Aaron Iba's version of the same concept (his app is called Spacetime): <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/space-time/id508723489?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4" rel="nofollow">https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/space-time/id508723489?mt=8&...</a>
Some landing page optimization to explain the product would be really helpful: since this is a mobile app, you want to give people a good idea of what they're getting into before they go to their phones, find it, and download it.
Like the idea and liking the app. Solves some of my issues I'm having with find my friends.
Would love to see some kind of location requests and settings on how often my location is updated.
I'm keeping an eye on this app.
Thanks for all the support and suggestions. This is just something we coded in a little over a month a will be iterating quickly. And, yes, an android version and awesome demo video for the splash page are in the works.
classic problem and a good project to do some side programming (I think these guys executed nicely). my own variant is a slightly less polished version running in the browser: <a href="http://geoteo.net/" rel="nofollow">http://geoteo.net/</a>