Moby: Share your location in real time • Hacker News Board

Re: Moby: Share your location in real time

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Post by NathanKP » Mon, Oct 22, 2012, 5:51 PM UTC

saiko-chriskun wrote: post #57

NathanKP wrote: post #5

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. 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, Twitte…

Really wish I had friends that used Path :/

I'm really happy that my circle of closest friends all use Path. As a result Path is the social network I use for my best friends, and the other social networks are all the spammy stuff I don't really want to see anyway.

Re: Moby: Share your location in real time

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Post by shuw » Mon, Oct 22, 2012, 8:20 PM UTC

antirez wrote: post #37

shuw wrote: post #35

It's a great hobby project, but as a product it is late to the market. http://www.glympse.com/what_is_glympse has had a product out for several years now.

I never understand arguments like this. There as Orkut before Facebook, Loopt before Latitude, Yahoo before Google, and Digg before Reddit. You can copy stuff and make them better, and this better can be even just simpler, or with better community, or other odd declinations of "better" that are enough to win in the market. EDIT: and in case there is already something in the marke that is yet not famous, you can almos…

I'm not arguing that Moby should not try to do better.

However, there should some acknowledgement that an almost identical product has existed for years and how this differs (better UX?, more features, etc).

Re: Moby: Share your location in real time

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Post by saiko-chriskun » Fri, Nov 02, 2012, 2:50 AM UTC

NathanKP wrote: post #61

saiko-chriskun wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really wish I had friends that used Path :/

I'm really happy that my circle of closest friends all use Path. As a result Path is the social network I use for my best friends, and the other social networks are all the spammy stuff I don't really want to see anyway.

give me your friends! :P