Rround

#1

Post by elving » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 12:55 AM UTC

rround is a fun and simple way to discover people and things happening rround you!

Rround
rround.me

Re: Rround

#2

Post by elving » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 12:57 AM UTC

rround is a simple HTML5 experiment I built to discover people and things happenings around you. What do you guys think?

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#3

Post by mvzink » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 3:12 AM UTC

Cool. I feel like having to click on the icons for them to show up on the map is too expensive. Perhaps just a hover over? And it looks like spots are already categorized; how about having a category that you can click (or hover!) to see all the nearby ones. Anyway, fun! Thanks for sharing.

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#4

Post by pom » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 3:22 AM UTC

I get a "Retrieving position timeout" error, even though I accept to share my location (on both Firefox and Google Chrome on OS X; geosharing works otherwise, for instance on this: http://slides.html5rocks.com/#geolocation.)

EDIT: Additionally, it would be nice to have a short description with screenshots of what it is supposed in the case that you cannot get through the location stage...

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#5

Post by rkalla » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 3:22 AM UTC

elving wrote: post #2

rround is a simple HTML5 experiment I built to discover people and things happenings around you. What do you guys think?

Please tell me this took you a long time? The design is I impeccable and I can barely make fonts stick (hnnotify.com)

You designers are an enigma to me, you make beautiful seem so easy :(

Oh yea, and the app is very cool.

Re: Rround

#6

Post by elving » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 3:30 AM UTC

rkalla wrote: post #5

elving wrote: post #2

rround is a simple HTML5 experiment I built to discover people and things happenings around you. What do you guys think?

Please tell me this took you a long time? The design is I impeccable and I can barely make fonts stick (hnnotify.com) You designers are an enigma to me, you make beautiful seem so easy :( Oh yea, and the app is very cool.

It took me like a month? I really don't know lol. I'm not that good of a designer so I was shocked when I read your comment. Thanks!

Re: Rround

#7

Post by elving » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 3:33 AM UTC

pom wrote: post #4

I get a "Retrieving position timeout" error, even though I accept to share my location (on both Firefox and Google Chrome on OS X; geosharing works otherwise, for instance on this: http://slides.html5rocks.com/#geolocation. ) EDIT: Additionally, it would be nice to have a short description with screenshots of what it is supposed in the case that you cannot get through the location stage...

Yes, the geolocation API can act weird sometimes :( try to clear you cache or try a different browser. You can alway enter your location manually (not the same but it's something). I'm sorry if the app didn't worked for you :(

Re: Rround

#8

Post by elving » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 3:34 AM UTC

mvzink wrote: post #3

Cool. I feel like having to click on the icons for them to show up on the map is too expensive. Perhaps just a hover over? And it looks like spots are already categorized; how about having a category that you can click (or hover!) to see all the nearby ones. Anyway, fun! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the suggestions! As I said, this is an experiment and I will continue to change and add new things. So stay tuned!

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#9

Post by callmeed » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 3:40 AM UTC

Whoa some of my own tweeted photos showed up after locating me.

Small town livin' I guess ...

Looks really good btw.

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#10

Post by elving » Thu, Sep 15, 2011, 3:56 AM UTC

callmeed wrote: post #9

Whoa some of my own tweeted photos showed up after locating me. Small town livin' I guess ... Looks really good btw.

Thanks!