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Show HN: Density – Anonymous People Counter and API

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Post by jordanmessina » Mon, Jul 13, 2015, 3:14 PM UTC

Show HN: Density – Anonymous People Counter and API
density.io

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Post by afar » Mon, Jul 13, 2015, 3:18 PM UTC

Foot traffic should be inexpensive, accurate, and available in real-time. It should be dead simple to integrate with other applications, and it should never invade people's privacy.

imo.

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#3

Post by joeyespo » Mon, Jul 13, 2015, 3:40 PM UTC

This looks awesome! Would love to know ahead of time how crowded my local coffee shop is before I packed up to work there.

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Post by wehadfun » Mon, Jul 13, 2015, 3:46 PM UTC

What communications protocol is it using?

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Post by aniketpant » Mon, Jul 13, 2015, 3:48 PM UTC

I have always wanted to build something like this since I was a kid. The biggest driving thought was to make traffic signals dynamic and build a central communication system for a city's transport.

Really glad to see a product coming into the regular consumer space for this :)

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Post by valarauca1 » Mon, Jul 13, 2015, 3:50 PM UTC

joeyespo wrote: post #3

This looks awesome! Would love to know ahead of time how crowded my local coffee shop is before I packed up to work there.

If this is the indented use case what purpose the coffee shop have to add one? If in most cases it'll only discourage customer attendance.

To be a member of the queue of an establishment can carry some of the social status of that establishment itself. This is a primative notion yes, but fairly ingrained culturally. As businesses often judge their prestige by the length of the queue to enter.

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Post by codeshaman » Mon, Jul 13, 2015, 3:52 PM UTC

>> "After adding Density, we saw as much as a 950% increase in site traffic to supported locations. Our users love it." - Darren Buckner, Workfrom CEO

When I use google maps, it shows me how busy various roads are and it also chooses the fastest route based on how fluid the traffic is. Seems like google maps is just observing the world and making decisions based on those observations.

Now I was wondering, what if all the drivers used google maps at the same time ?

Wouldn't it mean that google maps is influencing and even creating the traffic patterns ?

Same here - just measuring the 'density' has the effect of actually influencing it which is an interesting outcome and resembles quantum mechanics voodoo stuff :).

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Post by jordanmessina » Mon, Jul 13, 2015, 3:52 PM UTC

wehadfun wrote: post #4

What communications protocol is it using?

We're using infrared sensors to detect ingresses and egresses from locations.

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#9

Post by vosper » Mon, Jul 13, 2015, 3:54 PM UTC

Bug report: In Firefox, when on this page [1], clicking on the Density logo in the top left takes me to http://www.density.io/undefined

Looks like you've got a JS issue in there somewhere.

[1] http://www.density.io/?ref=hn

Re: Show HN: Density – Anonymous People Counter and API

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Post by jordanmessina » Mon, Jul 13, 2015, 3:55 PM UTC

vosper wrote: post #9

Bug report: In Firefox, when on this page [1], clicking on the Density logo in the top left takes me to http://www.density.io/undefined Looks like you've got a JS issue in there somewhere. [1] http://www.density.io/?ref=hn

Thank you! Fixing it now.