Color App Rip Off Race

11 points·floozyspeak··6 comments

Ok so who here's gonna the first to build a Color app rip off concept in weekend? Anyone?

I've had one half built sitting on my hard drive for about a year. Perhaps I will take it in a less creepy and more anonymous direction than what the color people are doing.

It has a horrible (or awesome!!) name and uses GAE as a backend. Which between the blob store API and the geo libs has everything you need to build and host this type of app really cheaply.

So for anyone trying to do this over the weekend I would start with that. The tipfy framework will get you moving on GAE really quickly as well. (tipfy.org)

This might be difficult.Even though the concept of Color is simple, it seems like they have some complex stuff going on behind the scenes.I don't think you can copy it in a weekend

Thats assuming you want to get all the spatial awareness they supposedly tout....

so, since they believe GPS is a non-starter -- lets do this with GPS... dupe the interface and basic functionality

Good idea. Maybe geofencing via SimpleGEO, with a little Skyhook SpotRank mixed in http://help.simplegeo.com/entries/209049-what-is-spotrank

Interesting thought:

How about a reverse color -- in which you DO NOT own (meaning get associated with) any of the pics you take -- they ONLY get plotted to and left on a map using simpleGEO.

Basically, you pull out your camera, snap a pic and it gets uploaded and displayed at is geoloc, and removed from your phone - then all you see is anon pics left where they weree taken.

One data point that would be of use/interest would be the direction of the camera, and a timestamp.

librecolor.com

democromatic.com

demochromatic.com

spherecolor.com

mysticolor.com

are all free....

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