This app makes me think of Popcorn..
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/popcorn-messaging/id71841670...
I wonder if more people are using Ripple because so far I haven't had much conversations with Popcorn.
Ripple – Chat with people nearby
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#42I thought about this idea myself. But then I noticed there were tons of good apps doing exactly this. This stopped me from implementing it, because i would not be "first app in the market", because I woudnt have the unfair advantage of being first.
(yobong, palringo, whoshere)
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#43When its android app is coming?
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#44I thought about this idea myself. But then I noticed there were tons of good apps doing exactly this. This stopped me from implementing it, because i would not be "first app in the market", because I woudnt have the unfair advantage of being first. (yobong, palringo, whoshere)
Yes this. Actually the first time I came across a (variation of) this idea, it was years ago and brought up by a co-worker.
I have been tinkering with the idea, and also came to the same conclusion, that virality / marketing in general were probably going to play the part hugely, as like you've stated, this has been done a lot..
Maybe it's something that people do not want.
I could see this having great potential in the dating/flirt sectors obvously ;) But you could also imagine things like "shit I think I left my jacket at x/y, anyone found it? " at a festival. Anonimity would probably be mandatory for success.
Remember how well Latitude faired?
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#45Looks nice, but IOS only...
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#46If 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.
Exept with us or course. So I take it you'd be someone willing to try the AI as shown in the 'Her' movie? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzV6mXIOVl4
As long as I don't have active reinforcement to remind me you aren't just randomly generated text by a machine somewhere, I'm good.
Which also means I'd prefer my creepy stalker AI to speak in a monotone machine voice. More relatable that way.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exept with us or course. So I take it you'd be someone willing to try the AI as shown in the 'Her' movie? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzV6mXIOVl4
As long as I don't have active reinforcement to remind me you aren't just randomly generated text by a machine somewhere, I'm good. Which also means I'd prefer my creepy stalker AI to speak in a monotone machine voice. More relatable that way.
...Hello Dave. What are you doing here Dave?"... (Hal)
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would that be a problem? Your location should not be an identifying value but more or less a topic. Being able to set your parameters to some location somewhere and chat with "random people" there seems like a feature, not a bug.
It's a problem because of spam. On WeChat it happens that if you send a message to a 'nearby pretty girl', you get a link to some dodgy website back. And before you call people who would send a message to a 'nearby pretty girl' naive. WeChat is in fact used a lot for hooking up with strangers.
I don't get it.
I would expect people hooking up nearby would identify themselves a little specifically - I'd be "the guy in the tux with the red carnation". A spammer from across the globe isn't going identify themselves with a description fitting the woman in the table over. I mean, she would be "blue and white scarf" rather than "nearby pretty girl" (unless it's a spammer, yeah).
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#49Random? Why not all the people?
Yes you can by inviting people with our per room invitation feature. There will be a need to have chat room concept so people know what to chat on.
Cool, think you can get a lan based room going?
As others have said been keen to do something very similar. Glad someone got off their ass and did it.
I always envisioned it useful at parties and places where the internet may be too congested but the lan/wlan not so much: read conferences
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a problem because of spam. On WeChat it happens that if you send a message to a 'nearby pretty girl', you get a link to some dodgy website back. And before you call people who would send a message to a 'nearby pretty girl' naive. WeChat is in fact used a lot for hooking up with strangers.
I don't get it. I would expect people hooking up nearby would identify themselves a little specifically - I'd be "the guy in the tux with the red carnation". A spammer from across the globe isn't going identify themselves with a description fitting the woman in the table over. I mean, she would be "blue and white scarf" rather than "nearby pretty girl" (unless it's a spammer, yeah).
Well, 'nearby pretty girl' would not describer herself as such, but would have a plausible looking profile picture. :) Also the distances are a bit bigger than the bar you're sitting in (up to a few kilometers).