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Re: Show HN: 60 Minutes Chat – Anonymously chat in self-destructing chatrooms nearby

#31

I'm ambivalent on the name, though I do like that the name says what it does without any silly made-up gibbrish name.

Reminds me of "60 Minutes" the long-running television news program. If I didn't know better, I would assume this was an app for discussing recent 60 Minutes stories. Maybe I'm just old, though.

Maybe that's the hidden motivator in my brain. Now I can't not think of 60 minutes (the program) when I see this name.

Re: Show HN: 60 Minutes Chat – Anonymously chat in self-destructing chatrooms nearby

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Stop cloning Yo's UI

Didn't we have this discussion back in Microsoft vs Adobe? I seem to recall that the conclusion was that look and feels were not protected by copyright.

Looks like he's stolen the name ("Yo Messenger") as well as the UI. I'm pretty sure he'll get his ass sued if Yo actually have any money (and if they care).

Re: Show HN: 60 Minutes Chat – Anonymously chat in self-destructing chatrooms nearby

#34

Hasn't this 'chat to people near you' been done to death already? I was thinking of doing an app like this a few years ago, but discovered that there were many similar apps.

In fact, there was Popcorn Messaging, which is anonymous chat within 1 mi radius. I loved the idea and checked the app quite often. However, the chats on there were almost never relevant to me, because there was no curation at all and this way, there was almost no way to communicate with people on there or to get an answer on anything.

So, I thought what if you add topics to the app, so that if I have a specific question, everyone in the area would get alerted by it and I could have my answer within just a few minutes. Giving the chatrooms a self-destruct timer would make them even more ephemeral. This way, the user knows that content on 60 Minutes is relevant and current at all times.

Re: Show HN: 60 Minutes Chat – Anonymously chat in self-destructing chatrooms nearby

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's an excellent idea, I was thinking about how to fix this problem. I think starting with a radius of 5 miles and increasing it until users can see the chatrooms from the closest 100 people would solve all that.

Yes, but you probably want some cut off. It might be better to see a shorter list of people who are reasonably close rather than 100 people who might not even be in the same country.

That would actually be interesting to learn about people who have a much more different lifestyle than people in your direct area !
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