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myohan
A classmate from college built this app. I think it's a great idea and very well designed app and introduces a new concept of communication and social media. What do you all think?
Gigablah
Would be cool if the paper airplanes could be customized -- there's lots of ways to fold them, after all!
kevboh
Yep. Planned and prioritized :)
executive
meh on ipad. portrait mode only.
kevboh
I want to bring Airendipity to iPad, but atm it's iPhone-only for the time-constraint reasons I mentioned above. I think iPad would be a great opportunity to stretch out a bit and carry a bit of the whimsical side a little further.
executive
right on.. hope you find the time. great job btw.

you've got the stickiness down - I keep going back in!

SoftwareMaven
I think it's a good first shot. I'm wondering what's going to happen to a completely anonymous forum as it grows. Will it devolved into /b-like behavior or will it find a way to rise above.
neumann_alfred
If postsecret.com is anything to go by it could be sweet. Pity it's an app and not simply HTML5 though, I'll never see it.
kevboh
I'm hoping that the theme, some new features, and me keeping an eye on spammy content will make it rise above. I'm wondering just as much as you, though!
SoftwareMaven
I am having fun with it, and it doesn't seem to be devolving.

Side note: I really want an iPad version. The interface doesn't even need to change at all, with the possible exception of making the airplanes a little bigger. I run it in 2x mode, but font rendering is massively ugly.

woah
Cool concept.
hayksaakian
Heads up - iOS only.
hxc
THANKS!
kevboh
Yeah, as I mentioned above that's all I know at the moment. Plan on learning/contracting out android/web.
Centigonal
I was going to be stern about the unnecessary use of a GeoIP database on your website, but then I did a little snooping and realized that you're probably based somewhere near me. Hello local person!
yan
Reminds me of grouphug.us, a site I spent hours on years ago.

Edit: it must have been 8 years ago at this point, and I still remember exactly what the site looked like and how the UI felt.

transitionality
So-called confession sites have existed since the late 90s.

Here comes a copycat with a novel (painfully forced) metaphor to make the old seem new again..

vlokshin
nice simple concept, and I have to show some (comment) love for DC/NoVa/MD :)
pjscott
I wanted to try it out in my browser, but couldn't, so I hit the back button. (This comment is intended as friendly, constructive feedback on your process for getting new users, and definitely not as an insult.)
kevboh
Hi, I made Airendipity. Long-time lurker, first-time poster, etc.

One day I want to introduce a web UI, but since iOS is what I know and I'm just one guy working nights, I went with iPhone-only. I feel pretty strongly that it's the API/community and not the device-specific UI that's important here, so... one day.

shloimtothee
This is really fantastic! One of my favorite apps of 2012.