Show HN: Walkbase, room-level context for your apps.

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Post by njern » Wed, Oct 19, 2011, 4:43 PM UTC

Hi guys!

Our team of HN lurkers been hard at work for what feels like an eternity now and today we're proud to present our first public product: The Walkbase library for Android. You can get it at www.walkbase.com

With Walkbase, app developers can push location-specific room-level context (e.g. in-game content, coupons, mobile ads) to various smartphone apps. The idea is to give you a logical context (e.g Starbucks, SOMA) rather than an approximate GPS position for your users and we hope devs will be able to build a bunch of cool stuff on top of this.

We hope you like it and find it useful. Feedback is of course very welcome!

Re: Show HN: Walkbase, room-level context for your apps.

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Post by arkitaip » Wed, Oct 19, 2011, 7:50 PM UTC

Just reading "indoor positioning platform" is enough to make me salivate. Most interesting startup I've heard about in ages.

Re: Show HN: Walkbase, room-level context for your apps.

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Post by qxb » Wed, Oct 19, 2011, 8:28 PM UTC

Clickable: http://www.walkbase.com

Re: Show HN: Walkbase, room-level context for your apps.

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Post by sebsoler » Wed, Oct 19, 2011, 9:12 PM UTC

This is AWESOME!!!! Exactly the location functionality I was looking for to support a new app I'm building

Re: Show HN: Walkbase, room-level context for your apps.

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Post by joshontheweb » Wed, Oct 19, 2011, 10:43 PM UTC

this is pretty cool if it works. It would be a great companion to a service like Apple's Find My Friend service they just launched.

Re: Show HN: Walkbase, room-level context for your apps.

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Post by TuomasW » Thu, Oct 20, 2011, 4:43 AM UTC

sebsoler wrote: post #4

This is AWESOME!!!! Exactly the location functionality I was looking for to support a new app I'm building

Great to hear! Hit us up on info@walkbase.com if you have any questions on this.

Re: Show HN: Walkbase, room-level context for your apps.

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Post by sebsoler » Sat, Oct 22, 2011, 10:59 PM UTC

Hey guys I've tried signing up as a developer but haven't gotten a registration email yet and therefore can't start using the library, is there some sort of waitlist??

I'm currently developing an app that could really use Walkbase's library / functionality, I'm really excited to start building with Walkbase as soon as possible!!

Re: Show HN: Walkbase, room-level context for your apps.

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Post by TuomasW » Mon, Oct 24, 2011, 12:07 PM UTC

sebsoler wrote: post #7

Hey guys I've tried signing up as a developer but haven't gotten a registration email yet and therefore can't start using the library, is there some sort of waitlist?? I'm currently developing an app that could really use Walkbase's library / functionality, I'm really excited to start building with Walkbase as soon as possible!!

Hi, Sorry for the inconvenience. Seems that some of the registration emails end-up in the spam-folder for some users.

Please check your spam folder for the mail. If it's not there, you can contact us directly at support@walkbase.com and well set you up an account directly asap.

,,Tuomas Wuoti CEO, Walkbase

Re: Show HN: Walkbase, room-level context for your apps.

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Post by sebsoler » Tue, Oct 25, 2011, 2:16 AM UTC

TuomasW wrote: post #8

sebsoler wrote: post #7

Hey guys I've tried signing up as a developer but haven't gotten a registration email yet and therefore can't start using the library, is there some sort of waitlist?? I'm currently developing an app that could really use Walkbase's library / functionality, I'm really excited to start building with Walkbase as soon as possible!!

Hi, Sorry for the inconvenience. Seems that some of the registration emails end-up in the spam-folder for some users. Please check your spam folder for the mail. If it's not there, you can contact us directly at support@walkbase.com and well set you up an account directly asap. ,,Tuomas Wuoti CEO, Walkbase

No problem, the confirmation email was in spam folder, found it and my account is active! Thx, really great API, can't wait to start developing with it!!

Re: Show HN: Walkbase, room-level context for your apps.

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Post by TuomasW » Tue, Oct 25, 2011, 4:34 PM UTC

sebsoler wrote: post #9

TuomasW wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, Sorry for the inconvenience. Seems that some of the registration emails end-up in the spam-folder for some users. Please check your spam folder for the mail. If it's not there, you can contact us directly at support@walkbase.com and well set you up an account directly asap. ,,Tuomas Wuoti CEO, Walkbase

No problem, the confirmation email was in spam folder, found it and my account is active! Thx, really great API, can't wait to start developing with it!!

Great to hear. We're happy to have you as part of the growing Walkbase developer community. If anything comes up, we're here to help!