munsters

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Posts like these really belong on reddit and not HN.

"But at that point you've already clicked two times voluntarily on a strange page whose provenance or purpose you don't know"

How many times have you clicked on an HN submission that you already knew 100% about? This site is for people to showcase their projects, of course curious visitors are expected to poke around.

This app looked like a single page - it's not at all obvious it's even possible to scroll down. It resizes to the browser window so the FAQ is always hidden unless you scroll. This is quite obviously based off "this face does not exist", so its perfectly reasonable to expect it to play something in the browser.

I had no idea what a DX7 cartridge was, but out of curiosity I clicked the "Click here to generate" link. It immediately downloaded a file.

I'm sure you have no malicious intent here, but my immediate reaction was that it's a virus or something bad. I immediately deleted the file. The experience felt like one of those scammy popups that initiates a download.

You should really put a label or something to indicate to the user that clicking the link is going to download something.

Very cool! What do you expect the range to be with that setup?

At the very least, this might spawn some discussion around being able to remotely enable/disable SDKs, from a server that you control. Last week it was Google Maps, today Facebook SDK...

This seems like it would only work if you're able to stay bumper to bumper with the charging car for 30+ minutes. You'd have to be traveling a very long distance along the same route (and, the charging car's destination MUST be before it runs out of power after transferring its power). What are the odds of that happening, on a reliable basis? At that scenario, it seems more sensible to install overhead wires (or underground) along freeways for long distance travel.

They probably do contract app development, with 1000s of clients

Hi HN,

I’m the solo developer behind mungbean. It’s a different take on the ambient location app, such as yikyak of yore.

This is a real time content sharing/chat app, that uses your location and activity levels to group and split communities of users. Each “room” represents a geographic fence. As more people join, the room splits and the geofence shrinks - hopefully equalizing the overcrowding that happens with most regular chat rooms, while giving those users a more local experience. Users can chat, submit pics/blurbs/links, or just lurk and upvote on the front page.

The goal is to give a voice back to the individual, rather than being drowned out too many messages (like on youtube chat) or revolving around influencers. This is accomplished by letting the app form a community, instead of the traditional pick-and-choose method.

An Android version is also available in the Play Store (just search “mungbean”). Pop in for a quick hangout, and let me know what you think!