LocalFlow – Discover your neighborhoods

by resca79 • 12 years ago

25 21 12 years ago

resca799• 12 years ago

Hi, I'm the author, happy to answer questions.

d23• 12 years ago

I'm convinced hyper-local connectivity is the future (at least, at some point). Best of luck getting users engaged; it seems like a great idea.

resca799• 12 years ago

THANKS, my main focus was to not clone existing social networks and make the app really simple and accessible

glomph• 12 years ago

How do you solve the safety for children/ young people problem? That is what has lead to many similar applications shutting down.

resca799• 12 years ago

good point. I solve it with a report for spam, and the acceptance of policy.

influxed• 12 years ago

Downloaded this app with high hopes, but left quite disappointed. Sitting in Downtown Chicago and UI is completely empty except for one other "New User"

I think you should give more consideration to empty states, in particular for metro areas not SF (or where ever this currently has active usage) to encourage new users of your app to generate content. As it is now, I don't know what I should do or why I should do it.

resca799• 12 years ago

Yes, you're right, I really appreciate your tip. Other apps l usually generates fake content, and I didn't want to do that.

statingobvious• 12 years ago

The idea is nice, although there is absolutely no activity in my neighborhood yet.

A small side note: on app activation any sound playback is paused in iOS. This is a bit annoying and not expected behavior for this app.

yuribit• 12 years ago

When's the android version coming out?

resca799• 12 years ago

I think a month is ready.

filearts• 12 years ago

That would make for a pretty neat integration with Navut[1], a local Montreal-based startup.

They offer data-driven information about neighborhoods that would be pretty cool to combine with the people-driven information that LocalFlow produces.

[1] http://www.navut.com/montreal

resca799• 12 years ago

LocaFlow is an app style of Reddit / HN from the point of view of news which are posted.

wuliwong• 12 years ago

I've actually been working on a website based around a reddit style of interaction between users and locations. I've focused on the web portion as I'm a web developer. I've only toyed around with the mobile portion so far. I wonder if a collaboration would be possible? I only want to broadcast the landing page on hackernews http://www.nualt.com/ But I have a fully functional site with maps, user accounts, posts, pictures, places, etc. Feel free to reach out if you are interested in talking more. patrick.justin.bradley@gmail.com

Great work. :)

resca799• 12 years ago

here the video presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KrWI-3P_is

kclay• 12 years ago

Someone finally did this, been thinking about an idea similar to this for services think angie's list mixed with this. Great work guys, waiting for the android version to give this a try.

resca799• 12 years ago

Yes, maybe there are many services like this one. But simplicity and non disclosure of personal data included Facebook Account, Twitter and etc.. are the main of this project.

Also this is totally focused on the News, rank, votes etc

txutxu2• 12 years ago

If i need a smartphone for it, sorry, it's not my network.

Take it as a wish-list, I love the idea.

arunaugustine• 12 years ago

Just to brainstorm with you on this, so if not phone, what would it be? Suppose we could build any hardware, any form factor, with any sort of input to convey your wishes to it, and any sort of output to feed back the output of the "eval" loop of it (riffing off REPL) into any of the five senses (yes, let's include smell to...just for the purposes of an unconstrained brainstorming), how would you envision that? I have been thinking about a "hands-free headset" that just talks to you and you talk back. And I wonder how would "apps" look or function in an ecosystem if the only API available was to speech-recognition engine and a text to speech engine?

txutxu2• 12 years ago

Well, I was just thinking about a laptop/desktop version.

I avoid smartphones (not by economic reasons) but I know I'm a unusual person.

Your hands-free idea sounds interesting!

pt• 12 years ago

``It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive.´´

-Sonia Gandhi-

This is a first. Never seen a startup quoting from a politician from India (not related to Mahatma Gandhi) in their landing page :)

LocalFlow – Discover your neighborhoods

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