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Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV

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Re: Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV

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Post by wccrawford »

yesenadam wrote: post #7

Thank you, this is great! One thing - I'm not in USA, and only people in USA, I guess, know those two-letter state abbreviations. I got one where I had to choose based on two two-letter codes I didn't know. Using the whole state name would make it more international.

Even for those of us in the US, this can be confusing. I had to memorize those codes a long time ago, but I haven't really used most of them in decades. For example, MI. Is that Michigan, Missouri, or Mississippi? (It's Michigan.) MS? Mississippi. MO is Missouri, which isn't intuitive unless you already know the other 2 and realize there isn't a lot of other letters they could use.

So yeah, full names is better. :)

Re: Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV

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Post by tetraodonpuffer »

I often watch POV walking/biking videos when working out indoors (rambalac for Japan, prowalk tours for Italy/Europe, watched walker for London, …) and thanks to your site I’ve found a couple more channels I was not aware of: could you maybe have a page where you list all the channels you are using (with maybe the amount of videos from each)?

From a gaming standpoint maybe I would show the source button only after the user has made a guess, as well as having an auto play button that can be disabled in case the user just wants to play random POV videos as screensaver or keep watching for a while after guessing.

Re: Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV

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Post by ortusdux »

wccrawford wrote: post #34
yesenadam wrote: post #7

Thank you, this is great! One thing - I'm not in USA, and only people in USA, I guess, know those two-letter state abbreviations. I got one where I had to choose based on two two-letter codes I didn't know. Using the whole state name would make it more international.

Even for those of us in the US, this can be confusing. I had to memorize those codes a long time ago, but I haven't really used most of them in decades. For example, MI. Is that Michigan, Missouri, or Mississippi? (It's Michigan.) MS? Mississippi. MO is Missouri, which isn't intuitive unless you already know the other 2 and realize there isn't a lot of other letters they could use. So yeah, full names is better. :)

Have you seen the stand-up Gary Gulman's routine about the group that choose the abbreviations? It's a masterclass in comedic storytelling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLECCmKnrys

Re: Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV

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Post by beeboop »

intrasight wrote: post #36

Cool, but... Where am I? I see a video, and some buttons for other locations. But it doesn't show what I am looking at in the current video. Is it a puzzle? You have to figure that out? If so, please say that somewhere.

Yes, the idea is to guess where you are. It keeps track how many you get right.
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