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Hi TL,
It’s been a while! I haven’t been following SC much lately, but I’ve just launched a side project, and the last time I did (with an app called StarLive), the TeamLiquid community was a huge help with feedback and ideas. With a new project launching, I thought I’d reach out and see what you guys thought.
It’s another app, this time called hoody (https://hoody.im) - It's an anonymous instant chat app with a twist: you’re placed in an area with people near you, and that area grows and shrinks with activity. So if there's really no one using the app anywhere near you, you’ll be put in a worldwide zone, chatting to anyone else in the same situation. As people near you join, you’ll move into a more localised area — say, the US, then New York, then your general suburb, then your neighbourhood.
The idea is to provide a way to connect with people around you, whether at a game, a festival, traveling in a new city, or just sitting around bored af. See what’s going on, ask where to get a good coffee, or where that nearby Dragonite is, whatever. With a little traction I think it could be really fun.
The website has a live preview of the worldwide zone which you can also chat in, but the real localised experience is with the app.
It’s all free, not looking to monetize at all, but I’ve put quite a lot of time and passion into it to get it into a nice, functional, fun and polished state. If you enjoy using it, then I’m happy. If you think it sucks, I want to know that too!
  
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It looks a bit dangerous if you are shown alone.
Beside that why not, I don't myself like the idea because I am not fond of that kind of stuff, but I can see it as a great ressources.
Would have love to do further testing, unfortunately I got a phone even the NSA would have troubled gathering information on.
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It's a cute idea. I don't have an iphone so that's the end of it for me.
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what did you use to make your website? all hand coded? looks cool.
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If you could incorporate automatized forum-mafia game hosting into this app, you could be swimming in fun, money and female genitals soon.
Witnessing the advent of smartphones stafu realized that the time had come for him to learn coding, but it was tedious and he couldn't do it without help. Eventually he managed to code an app for playing voice forum mafia he called hoody.
A marketing strategy that did pay off well was to encourage the production of satirical voice-commercial sketches à la GTA Radio, but community-made, that mimicked real adds until those started accumulating. Once paid adds were abundant he set the probability of a sketch to appear on a player's virtual answering machine to 33%.
Hoody featured among other functionalities a compact 3d representation of the index of posts, rendering it clearly discernible which input was a response to which segment of the other, in a practical and visually attractive (reminiscent of star constellations) design. Stafu successfully lured forumites from reddit, 4chan etc. in part because they liked how easy it was to use soundboards instead of smileys, a cappella and jam to each other's audioposts and use effects like movie-trailer voice or spooky reverse-reverb, which were unlockable in hoody only through achievements while playing ranked mafia games (3 games played at the same time with identical open setup and the same players, out of which only an uninformed couple would be faced-off and ®anked).
My idea ![[image loading]](https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/emoticons/v1/112292/1.0)
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