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Instahood — geo Instagram

#1

Post by azat_co » Sun, Mar 17, 2013, 2:48 AM UTC

Instahood — geo Instagram
instahood.meteor.com

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#2

Post by jgh » Sun, Mar 17, 2013, 3:33 AM UTC

The interface is kinda hard to use. When I click on a picture and it expands it, how do I close the picture??

Also the "No pictures found" thing is kinda misleading since it just takes a few seconds for the pictures to load

edit: Sorry, I do think this is good...just got thrown off initially cause the interface is kinda clunky.

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#3

Post by _RPM » Sun, Mar 17, 2013, 3:40 AM UTC

Very cool. It would be super sweet if you were polling the API for live updates.

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#4

Post by fjk » Sun, Mar 17, 2013, 3:48 AM UTC

I'm a student at the University of Michigan and I just used this in Ann Arbor. Students celebrated St. Patrick's Day today and Instahood did an amazing job collating everyone's pictures from the festivities.

I agree with jgh that the interface isn't the best, but that's something that can be fixed. The underlying concept of seeing everyone's Instagram pictures in your immediate vicinity is extremely appealing to me. Great work and I hope you keep refining this!

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#5

Post by prezjordan » Sun, Mar 17, 2013, 3:50 AM UTC

_RPM wrote: post #3

Very cool. It would be super sweet if you were polling the API for live updates.

Yeah, I'm wondering why this is on Meteor. Is it real-time?

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#6

Post by geekam » Sun, Mar 17, 2013, 3:52 AM UTC

This is nice! Congrats!

Feature Request: Filtering via hashtags.

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#7

Post by _RPM » Sun, Mar 17, 2013, 3:53 AM UTC

prezjordan wrote: post #5

_RPM wrote: post #3

Very cool. It would be super sweet if you were polling the API for live updates.

Yeah, I'm wondering why this is on Meteor. Is it real-time?

Instahood doesn't seem to be real-time

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#8

Post by FixThisMess » Sun, Mar 17, 2013, 4:10 AM UTC

Good idea, but the UI doesn't work.

See the iOS app Teleportd for one that does.

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#9

Post by muratmutlu » Sun, Mar 17, 2013, 4:15 AM UTC

We made this a few years ago - it's a bit janky http://www.instabam.com, it's a bit of a experiment of trying to make the iPhone app into a web app.

If you want a free app to find Instagram pics nearby or on Google maps try Instabam https://itunes.apple.com/md/app/instabam!-explore-instagram/...

It was my first ever spare time app and was a lot of fun, it was doing quite well until Apple changed the App Store design, we lost 100 downloads a day instantly after that

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#10

Post by jonemo » Sun, Mar 17, 2013, 4:25 AM UTC

Can anyone explain what this is? I see a mostly empty page with two vertical scroll bars and the texts "No Photos..." and "Click on the map or use the search". No map and no indication what I can search for.