Show HN: MapChat – A simple location based chat in 300 lines of code
So, this is how my experience started.
<a href="http://cl.ly/image/071f1j0B0M3a" rel="nofollow">http://cl.ly/image/071f1j0B0M3a</a><p>And then it took me like 5 seconds to figure out how to chat. I first tried to click on people's chat to reply to them and then I finally found the text input at the bottom of the screen. Then nothing would happen when I hit enter. Then I eventually found the blue circle send button and that didn't work.<p>Then I tried Chrome. Worked! So I found some bugs in Safari :)<p>Amazing that this was done in 300 lines. Something about this format is immediately appealing. Maybe it's because dots on a map feel more human than handles on a forum or comment thread.  Anonymity is this double-edged sword in communities. Maybe this is the minimum amount needed to make people behave? Probably not, but something IS interesting here.<p>Right now it's just people shouting...I hope your next trick is to figure out how to turn it into conversations. Suggestion: Please don't be tempted to just rewrite it or start from scratch. Iterate from this version because 1) it would be faster and 2) this one already has some magic in it.<p>Thanks for sharing!