While perhaps an interesting mechanic in larger cities, the core feature of this product will ensure minimal adoption in rural towns like mine. User will install, see there are no active chats, create one, never get a response, and uninstall.
Do it K-Means-style: group users geographically targeting a particular population in each chat. As a bonus you can make some nice visualisations as a result.
(I'm reminded of a friend of mine trying to use OkCupid from Orkney, finding only four people using it within half a day's travel)
That's an excellent idea, I was thinking about how to fix this problem. I think starting with a radius of 5 miles and increasing it until users can see the chatrooms from the closest 100 people would solve all that.
Yes, but you probably want some cut off. It might be better to see a shorter list of people who are reasonably close rather than 100 people who might not even be in the same country.
It depends really on what the purpose of your app is.
I would normalise your data somehow against a population map, so distance in sparsely populated areas is weighted differently to dense urban areas.
Ah no, it's just from an indie-dev :) But I was inspired by how Yo took communication to a whole nother level and thought about ways of how to push further what they started.
Didn't we have this discussion back in Microsoft vs Adobe? I seem to recall that the conclusion was that look and feels were not protected by copyright.
Looks like he's stolen the name ("Yo Messenger") as well as the UI. I'm pretty sure he'll get his ass sued if Yo actually have any money (and if they care).
I've been using this for around 10 minutes now and it seems fairly buggy, the main ones I've hit are:
* Messages appear in the wrong conversation, then move back to the correct one on close/open.
* I get notified about new chats that then don't appear in the list
Some stats two hours after submission if someone is interested:
- 92 new users
- 88 chatrooms were opened
- 14 users from London, 10 Amsterdam, 8 Berlin, 8 New York, 8 Chicago, 6 Toronto. It seems like because it's so early, mostly Europe has seen it so far.
Reminds me of "60 Minutes" the long-running television news program. If I didn't know better, I would assume this was an app for discussing recent 60 Minutes stories.
Hasn't this 'chat to people near you' been done to death already? I was thinking of doing an app like this a few years ago, but discovered that there were many similar apps.
In fact, there was Popcorn Messaging, which is anonymous chat within 1 mi radius. I loved the idea and checked the app quite often. However, the chats on there were almost never relevant to me, because there was no curation at all and this way, there was almost no way to communicate with people on there or to get an answer on anything.
So, I thought what if you add topics to the app, so that if I have a specific question, everyone in the area would get alerted by it and I could have my answer within just a few minutes. Giving the chatrooms a self-destruct timer would make them even more ephemeral. This way, the user knows that content on 60 Minutes is relevant and current at all times.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 81.6 ms ] threadPerhaps add the ability to expand your area?
(I'm reminded of a friend of mine trying to use OkCupid from Orkney, finding only four people using it within half a day's travel)
Edit: oh no it isn't! (thanks!)
Permissions:
Identity Uses one or more of: accounts on the device, profile data
Contacts/Calendar Uses one or more of: calendar, contact information
Location Uses the device's location
* Messages appear in the wrong conversation, then move back to the correct one on close/open. * I get notified about new chats that then don't appear in the list
- 92 new users
- 88 chatrooms were opened
- 14 users from London, 10 Amsterdam, 8 Berlin, 8 New York, 8 Chicago, 6 Toronto. It seems like because it's so early, mostly Europe has seen it so far.
any way to contact you
Maybe I'm just old, though.
So, I thought what if you add topics to the app, so that if I have a specific question, everyone in the area would get alerted by it and I could have my answer within just a few minutes. Giving the chatrooms a self-destruct timer would make them even more ephemeral. This way, the user knows that content on 60 Minutes is relevant and current at all times.