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Show HN: MapChat – A simple location based chat in 300 lines of code

#1

Post by idoco » Fri, Jun 19, 2015, 1:21 PM UTC

Show HN: MapChat – A simple location based chat in 300 lines of code
idoco.github.io

Re: Show HN: MapChat – A simple location based chat in 300 lines of code

#2

Post by idoco » Fri, Jun 19, 2015, 1:25 PM UTC

Feel free to fork and contribute :) https://github.com/idoco/map-chat

Re: Show HN: MapChat – A simple location based chat in 300 lines of code

#3

Post by marvel_boy » Fri, Jun 19, 2015, 1:58 PM UTC

idoco wrote: post #2

Feel free to fork and contribute :) https://github.com/idoco/map-chat

Newbie here. Nice idea ! How much time it took you to buid the site? It is js-only based? By the way, works perfectly on Safari.

Re: Show HN: MapChat – A simple location based chat in 300 lines of code

#4

Post by idoco » Fri, Jun 19, 2015, 2:00 PM UTC

marvel_boy wrote: post #3

idoco wrote: post #2

Feel free to fork and contribute :) https://github.com/idoco/map-chat

Newbie here. Nice idea ! How much time it took you to buid the site? It is js-only based? By the way, works perfectly on Safari.

Thanks! It took me about two weeks in after work hours. The server is 70 lines of Java (vertx) and the UI is like 200 lines of JS (With very little JQuery)

Re: Show HN: MapChat – A simple location based chat in 300 lines of code

#5

Post by apeacox » Fri, Jun 19, 2015, 2:09 PM UTC

very nice idea! :-)

perhaps it needs:

* something to zoom the map (and thus, filtering messages for a given radius) * and/or something to organize messages in a way they don't overlap :P (eg: balloons with a number, when clicked it shows the full list of messages)

Re: Show HN: MapChat – A simple location based chat in 300 lines of code

#6

Post by highCs » Fri, Jun 19, 2015, 2:12 PM UTC

I would like to see how many people are in there (screen-wise).

Re: Show HN: MapChat – A simple location based chat in 300 lines of code

#7

Post by idoco » Fri, Jun 19, 2015, 2:12 PM UTC

apeacox wrote: post #5

very nice idea! :-) perhaps it needs: * something to zoom the map (and thus, filtering messages for a given radius) * and/or something to organize messages in a way they don't overlap :P (eg: balloons with a number, when clicked it shows the full list of messages)

Thanks!

It is possible to save the message history on the client side. But I though that this is fun to have no history :) Right now notifications (The switch on top) gives you some history.

I disabled the zoom buttons, because I was thinking about mobile browsers and the very limited screen space they have. I will reconsider

Re: Show HN: MapChat – A simple location based chat in 300 lines of code

#8

Post by idoco » Fri, Jun 19, 2015, 2:13 PM UTC

highCs wrote: post #6

I would like to see how many people are in there (screen-wise).

Good idea! Thanks.

BTW as for writing this message there are 150 people on the map :)

Re: Show HN: MapChat – A simple location based chat in 300 lines of code

#9

Post by ohitsdom » Fri, Jun 19, 2015, 2:14 PM UTC

Very nice! Lot of people having fun in there right now, which is a clear sign you did something right.

Re: Show HN: MapChat – A simple location based chat in 300 lines of code

#10

Post by idoco » Fri, Jun 19, 2015, 2:15 PM UTC

Tip - You can create a private chat map by adding the url #word i.e. http://idoco.github.io/map-chat/#test