Ask HN: If you were going to walk across the US, what apps would you use?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2240118

by nmaio • 15 years ago

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Just a curious question. What apps would you use to socialize with others along your trip?

A blog? Twitter? Facebook page? Quora? Instagram? None of these? Just some? Others?

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Skywing• 15 years ago

I enjoyed following this person's trip: http://imjustwalkin.com/

He setup a blog prior to leaving and made many posts every day. I think they also setup some web script that let him ping his location to his website whenever he wanted. It was very easy to track him.

Why would you need Quora? Instagram could be neat.

Depends what your reasons for walking across the country are. If it is to escape the pressures of every day business life, then I'm not sure you'd want all that much technology.

Mz• 15 years ago

Email. A posterous account to plan/log the journey (at least for now -- not sure if I will move it later). Hacker News of course. In other words: My expectation is that I will use a lot of the same stuff I use currently. But then I hadn't given a lot of thought to apps/socializing online. I am more focused on other questions, like how to support myself financially and how to address logistics (especially given special dietary and medical needs).

It's a shame there aren't more replies to this. I'm sort of weirded out to see the question, given my recent decision to do just that. :-/

Ask HN: If you were going to walk across the US, what apps would you use?

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