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If I want to chat with people nearby, I would go up, come to them and start chatting with them. In person. ...just kidding, I am an asocial person, I don't speak with other people.
I've been using the beta since it came out and have loved the way the app has grown. I'm really interested in seeing its potential in conferences or large towns. It's small and well focused, they've opened some code from it and seem to be doing a good job of being active in chat. Give it a try.
I thought they were related to Ripple Labs ( https://ripple.com/ ) and the Ripple cryptocurrency due to the recent Bitcoin and cryptocurrency craze; however it seems they are unrelated and just happened to hit upon the same name for their chat app.
"Meet like-minded people". Where like-minded means "uses the same OS as me". Sorry, couldn't resist. Congratulations on shipping. It looks like a great utility.
WeChat (by Tencent) has similar feature, but you must first add people to friend list then chat. However this raise an interesting topic: How to securely verify that a device is indeed nearby and not spoofing it? You can spoof your GPS coordinates easily on Android at least.
We're more focusing on allowing people to join chatrooms which the location information are to help people easily find them, there's also an invitation feature to let you tweet your room and people can join all over the world.
how does the chat happen through bluetooth? what are the technical details?
Random? Why not all the people?
I've been using the beta since it came out and have loved the way the app has grown. I'm really interested in seeing its potential in conferences or large towns. It's small and well focused, they've opened some code from it and seem to be doing a good job of being active in chat. Give it a try.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6642100
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> Why would that be a problem? Hmm, the same reason you wanna keep your conversations private? I can think of few cases, like if you want to giving nearby people coupons, I mean really nearby, not random guy on the other side of the planet trying to re-sell your coupons. How to use a non-hackish, non-intrusive way to make content exclusive to local users? Providing an ad-hoc wifi is not the solution because people ma…
The edge cases just aren't worth doing any extra work for.