TubeNearYou
Consumer and social
location video search
SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
6 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 13 critical, out of 36 comments about the project. Thread score -0.22.
Execution: 0 for, 6 againstIdea: 4 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 4 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun and neat idea
From 3 comments
This is amazing.
alpacaaa on HNIt's fun! I didn't know YouTube had this functionality. A few comments: - It could use a couple of smaller radius settings though (1km and 100m). Nothing that Chrome Console…
kruk on HNWell done, this was pretty neat. Nearly all real-estate walk-throughs, but found a couple of neat things after wading through those.
mod on HN
Objections
Location search defaults to wrong place or fails to detect location
From 3 comments
So the site asks if it can use my location and I click yes. Safari asks if it can use my location which I allow. I then hit the search button and am dumped into a map of Russia.…
protomyth on HNIt seems strange that it uses HTML5 Geolocation, but still drops me in Russia by default. Are others seeing the same behavior?
jnpatel on HNIt does not work here, I have a desktop computer with no geolocation capabilities (no wifi), it just shows a white screen below the text.
mahouse on HN
Results dominated by car dealership and real estate videos
From 3 comments
Interesting that majority of vids are sales video (car, property, etc.) on many locations I tried.
stockkid on HNYay - nothing but car dealership videos.
robodale on HNPretty much nothing but used car ads for me.
nsxwolf on HN
Smallest radius is 5km, too broad for dense cities
From 2 comments
Smallest distance you can select seems to be 5km, and I live in central London, so that's a few million people "nearby".
m-i-l on HNYep, San Francisco is even worse as you'd expect - <1km option would be nice :)
tommoor on HN
Requests
Smaller radius options such as 1km and 100m
From 3 comments
Yep, San Francisco is even worse as you'd expect - <1km option would be nice :)
tommoor on HNEditing the URL to 1km works.
rrrrob on HNIt's fun! I didn't know YouTube had this functionality. A few comments: - It could use a couple of smaller radius settings though (1km and 100m). Nothing that Chrome Console…
kruk on HN
Allow middle-click to open videos in tabs
From 2 comments
Please let me middle/right click on videos so I can open them in tabs.
aw3c2 on HNAgreed. This is so frustrating. Stop trying to reinvent the UI with ridiculous restrictions like this.
icelancer on HN
Questions
How many videos are typically geotagged on YouTube
From 1 comment
I'm pretty impressed by this. It certainly shows a whole bunch of stuff happening near me that I had no idea about. So, how many videos are typically geotagged on Youtube? Most…
smy1es on HN
Alternatives named
youtube-dl
From 1 comment
https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl ``` 1. right-click -> "Copy Link Location" 2. middle click to paste the link into you shell 3. run "youtube-dl" on the URL(s) 4. watch the…
pdkl95 on HN
Twitter location search project YukOrYay
From 1 comment
i built something similar for twitter. http://student.seas.gwu.edu/~jhaaga/YukOrYay/php/homepage.php
joehaaga on HN