Whichway.link
Consumer and social
location sharing
SHOW HN2017
3points
5comments
#2,177of 2,242 in 2017
Top 98%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
0 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.
Idea: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Good idea
From 1 comment
Very good idea, but the execution is horrible. It doesn't say what will happen after I share my location. It asks for my location a hundred times, why? It doesn't work on the…
fiatjaf on HN
Objections
Execution is poor: unclear what happens after sharing location
From 1 comment
Very good idea, but the execution is horrible. It doesn't say what will happen after I share my location. It asks for my location a hundred times, why? It doesn't work on the…
fiatjaf on HN
Repeated location permission prompts
From 1 comment
Very good idea, but the execution is horrible. It doesn't say what will happen after I share my location. It asks for my location a hundred times, why? It doesn't work on the…
fiatjaf on HN
Shows an error on latest Firefox
From 1 comment
Very good idea, but the execution is horrible. It doesn't say what will happen after I share my location. It asks for my location a hundred times, why? It doesn't work on the…
fiatjaf on HN
Does not work in desktop browsers without a compass
From 2 comments
Very good idea, but the execution is horrible. It doesn't say what will happen after I share my location. It asks for my location a hundred times, why? It doesn't work on the…
fiatjaf on HNNo, but someone may send the link from their phone to someone on a desktop. That's what happens with me most times when I want to know the location of someone and there's no easy…
fiatjaf on HN
Limited to a small subset of countries using metric system
From 1 comment
Congratulations on launching. But you might want to clarify that this is for a very small subset of countries in the world, so the rest of us don't waste our time with it?…
sandebert on HN
Requests
Support desktop browsers
From 1 comment
No, but someone may send the link from their phone to someone on a desktop. That's what happens with me most times when I want to know the location of someone and there's no easy…
fiatjaf on HN
Clarify the service and which countries it serves
From 2 comments
Very good idea, but the execution is horrible. It doesn't say what will happen after I share my location. It asks for my location a hundred times, why? It doesn't work on the…
fiatjaf on HNCongratulations on launching. But you might want to clarify that this is for a very small subset of countries in the world, so the rest of us don't waste our time with it?…
sandebert on HN
Questions
Why does it ask for location repeatedly?
From 1 comment
Very good idea, but the execution is horrible. It doesn't say what will happen after I share my location. It asks for my location a hundred times, why? It doesn't work on the…
fiatjaf on HN