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How will I know my area is unlocked unless I'm constantly checking the app? Also, does it take -just two- people to unlock? I'm guessing so because there is no way anyone within a one mile radius also has this app.
How will I know my area is unlocked unless I'm constantly checking the app? Also, does it take -just two- people to unlock? I'm guessing so because there is no way anyone within a one mile radius also has this app.
yep, just two! i just pushed an update that includes push notifications. you might need to log out and back in, but it should show the prompt. from there im coding in a notification for when the area opens
How will I know my area is unlocked unless I'm constantly checking the app? Also, does it take -just two- people to unlock? I'm guessing so because there is no way anyone within a one mile radius also has this app.
yep, just two! i just pushed an update that includes push notifications. you might need to log out and back in, but it should show the prompt. from there im coding in a notification for when the area opens
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there are a million and one apps that offer the ability to chat with people. if it's a concern people can use one of those
Wow - sounds kinda hostile and doesn't really address the original point (sorry if I'm misreading your response). What's so special about the exact mile radius that couldn't be, say, a bit more flexible if conditions aren't perfect? Couldn't the app expand that to a mile and a half if no-one's present within a mile? Etc. I think that's the original point that was being made.
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yep, just two! i just pushed an update that includes push notifications. you might need to log out and back in, but it should show the prompt. from there im coding in a notification for when the area opens
Just logged out and logged back in, but no alert view for receiving notifications. Do I need to create a new account?
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Wow - sounds kinda hostile and doesn't really address the original point (sorry if I'm misreading your response). What's so special about the exact mile radius that couldn't be, say, a bit more flexible if conditions aren't perfect? Couldn't the app expand that to a mile and a half if no-one's present within a mile? Etc. I think that's the original point that was being made.
sorry if it sounded hostile, i appreciated the comment! my point was that the integrity of the app relies on a fixed radius. im not opposed to increasing the fixed radius initially while there arent a lot of users. however expanding the radius according to nearby users makes the location aspect less relevant. if the nearest user is 20 miles away than they should probably use another app.
I almost created one of these, except for news. Hyper-local news is largely missing - I was going to mash up Twitter, Instagram, and in-app updates to help people get a sense of what's happening immediately around them. This is actually a great idea to solve this problem though. The news use-case is for city life. When you hear a gunshot or a car accident occurs on your street or you see smoke off in the distance or…
thanks! one of our biggest goals was to maintain privacy by only requiring a username to sign up.
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Would you like me to give you some Ruby code that would emulate this functionality? I am fairly sure the size of the program would be less than 300 LOC, tops. That is indeed a "little app". The 30-something line regex parser Pike wrote ( http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr09/cos333/bea... ) ? Also a "little app". There is no shame in solving a small problem, solving it well, and solving it concisely. As f…
A recap of your pleasant original comment: "Don't get me wrong, it's a nifty little app. You probably learned a lot! That said, it's still just a toy campus app." A morsel of value from the world squandered. I'll bite your offer for you to mock it up in Ruby real quick. The problem with the "it's easy and I could do it" dismissal is that, even though you could, you didn't. Maybe you can team up with this guy[1]. You…
http://near.im/ is a mobile web implementation (in Meteor) of the same concept that I work on occasionally, although the frontend needs to be redone. No longer requires a Facebook login.