Geo-enabled text message service

http://⌖.ws

by karlarmstrong • 14 years ago

21 17 14 years ago

xn--8hh.ws

icebraining• 14 years ago

What's with the domain? Why not link directly to http://tehula.com/ ?

sp3323• 14 years ago

Edit2: Wow, doesn't a one-letter .ws domain cost ~$50,000?

For the curious: It's this Unicode character http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2316/index.htm known as "Position Indicator" and it looks like a reticle. Kind of makes sense for a position-based service, but a bit hard to type :)

edit: Previous discussion about the actual icon for the app: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4285919

shawnz2• 14 years ago

OP used Punycode (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode) to encode the character, which in ASCII is "xn--8hh.ws"

sp3323• 14 years ago

I don't think so, the link is written as http://⌖.ws And that wouldn't change the fact that ⌖.ws is a single-letter domain name.

livestyle• 14 years ago

a more simple version of glympse...i like

chevreuil• 14 years ago

Cool name for a location app, even if only French speakers can get it.

cjrp• 14 years ago

I could see myself using this a lot more than Apple's "Find My Friends" app. (since none of my friends have that app). Really like the simple UI, does one thing and does it well.

jln• 14 years ago

Works really smoothly, seems very thoughtfully put together.

Only criticism would that the "accept request to share location" action button is labelled "share", which I initially glossed over, assuming that it meant "share to social network".

ck2• 14 years ago

So if someone stole your phone and you didn't have tracking, you could try emailing them with this as a replyto?

rm999• 14 years ago

Pretty cool, something simple like this built-in to phones would be great. If your friend knows much about the iphone he can go to the maps app and "share location" with you via text or e-mail. Is there something similar in Android?

untog• 14 years ago

I'm still waiting for mobile messaging to get sorted out. We've got iMessage, Facebook Messenger, gTalk, WhatsApp, GroupMe... and who knows how many others.

Of course, there isn't a single service that all of my friends use, apart from traditional SMS. Facebook Messenger comes closest, but I message people I am not Facebook friends with, so that's out.

I dream of a service that's like WhatsApp- platform agnostic, available to all- but also totally open with all the API access you'd need. Of course, I would imagine that is extremely difficult to get popular. Oh, and monetise.

drivebyacct2• 14 years ago

And thank god none of them are interoperable. Oh wait, no, that sucks, massively.

bazzargh• 14 years ago

Surprised at this, you can already share your location fairly easily via a text message on the iphone.

Go to maps, press the arrow for current location, click the right arrow and you'll see the 'Share' button. One of the options is 'message'. It sends a google maps link.

Geo-enabled text message service

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