Ripple – Chat with people nearby
ripplechat.io
ripplechat.io
...just kidding, I am an asocial person, I don't speak with other people.
Kind of gets you thinking about the singularity doesn't it?
Which also means I'd prefer my creepy stalker AI to speak in a monotone machine voice. More relatable that way.
Sorry, couldn't resist. Congratulations on shipping. It looks like a great utility.
However this raise an interesting topic:
How to securely verify that a device is indeed nearby and not spoofing it?
You can spoof your GPS coordinates easily on Android at least.
Your location should not be an identifying value but more or less a topic.
Being able to set your parameters to some location somewhere and chat with "random people" there seems like a feature, not a bug.
Hmm, the same reason you wanna keep your conversations private?
I can think of few cases, like if you want to giving nearby people coupons, I mean really nearby, not random guy on the other side of the planet trying to re-sell your coupons.
How to use a non-hackish, non-intrusive way to make content exclusive to local users?
Providing an ad-hoc wifi is not the solution because people may need public Internet activities and a device can connect only to one access point at a time.
On WeChat it happens that if you send a message to a 'nearby pretty girl', you get a link to some dodgy website back.
And before you call people who would send a message to a 'nearby pretty girl' naive. WeChat is in fact used a lot for hooking up with strangers.
I would expect people hooking up nearby would identify themselves a little specifically - I'd be "the guy in the tux with the red carnation". A spammer from across the globe isn't going identify themselves with a description fitting the woman in the table over. I mean, she would be "blue and white scarf" rather than "nearby pretty girl" (unless it's a spammer, yeah).
Yeah?
EDIT: typo.
We're more focusing on allowing people to join chatrooms which the location information are to help people easily find them, there's also an invitation feature to let you tweet your room and people can join all over the world.
(yobong, palringo, whoshere)
Maybe it's something that people do not want.
I could see this having great potential in the dating/flirt sectors obvously ;) But you could also imagine things like "shit I think I left my jacket at x/y, anyone found it? " at a festival. Anonimity would probably be mandatory for success.
Remember how well Latitude faired?
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/popcorn-messaging/id71841670...
I wonder if more people are using Ripple because so far I haven't had much conversations with Popcorn.
It's small and well focused, they've opened some code from it and seem to be doing a good job of being active in chat. Give it a try.
As others have said been keen to do something very similar. Glad someone got off their ass and did it.
I always envisioned it useful at parties and places where the internet may be too congested but the lan/wlan not so much: read conferences
Probably take some time for AppStore to process those keywords, stay tuned :)
no? oh ok.