Ask HN: Rate My Startup - TweetMapr

by Readmore • 17 years ago

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Readmore4• 17 years ago

TweetMapr lets you easily share you location on Twitter. It's like the Twitpic model for location.

A friend and I have built this site over the last couple weeks and we have a list of planned features a mile long. I feel like we've gotten the basic stuff right and I would love to get some feedback from all of you.

We're going to support the new location info from Twitter, obviously, and allow users to post their location through a hashtag from any twitter interface. We're also working on an API for 3rd parties so if anyone is interested in integrating with us send me an email and we can start talking. bpollet at gmail.

I'd appreciate any feedback, Thanks.

jacquesm2• 17 years ago

How will you deal with the various possibilities for abuse this kind of functionality offers ? (stalking etc).

Readmore4• 17 years ago

We have a couple ideas. First is that you only post your location when you want to. We're not going to map every tweet you post on twitter. So a user would only post from our site, or include the hashtag, when they want to be placed on a map.

If that isn't enough for people we are open to including privacy controls, like only allowing people you follow to view your location, but we wanted to see what people wanted from the site before we went down that road.

FreeRadical• 17 years ago

When I signed in I got:

"We're sorry, but something went wrong. We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly."

Readmore4• 17 years ago

I'll take a look at it, thanks. [Update] It looks to be working now, I think our host was having some problems. Please give it another try.

Ask HN: Rate My Startup - TweetMapr

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