SHOW HN: What did people post to Instagram or Flickr near you?

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6 points·d3vc47··4 comments

So you've often enough posted this now I assume. But I checked it out, and it does look nice and interesting.

For cyberstalking new people near you it is perfect :). Just the UI is a little bad. The map should be zoomable, because my browser location was pretty wrong, and I had to find my actual area in that narrow window.

But then it was pretty fast. So good job.

Now, what do you plan to do with it?

Hi, sorry for re-posting and thanks for your feedback! Have been iterating so many times over this project that it feels like something completely different every time. I'll let this be the last time I post it to HN, though! :)

The intention is really not to make people cyberstalkers with the project, but to let people experience cool things with it. I think it's kind of fascinating to stand near a statue or similar and see what others posted there through my mobile. The GUI part are for sure to be improved, and if you use the radius slider at the bottom of the page, it's possible to zoom while you set the radius. This part is probhably not very easy to understand for all people though, I guess. To be improved, for sure, thanks for pointing this out.

The plan is now to see what other APIs and services that could be useful to put in, and perhaps make some interactive stuff in order to be able to communicate somehow through the site. Still looking for a way to solve this in an optimal way, though, but I believe it could be really cool to offer something more than just browsing APIs visually.

I have a commercial use for this for my business, please reach out to me (email in profile) if interested.

Cool :)

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