I'd like to use this around my house. We are renting it to some friends this summer, and it would be great to stick notes around each room, explaining various quirks and where things are. But it's a bit weird to "publish" the notes and have my house show up on a map. Is there a way to "not publish" my notes publicly, but perhaps be able to share them selectively via e.g. a URL or an invite in the app?
Had a similar idea years ago, but thought more of a gps-located twitter. A tweets sticks to a location an can be private or public. People who use the app may have access to special deals. Monetizing in the sense of coupons. The app would incentivize people to explore and find gps-tweets.
A decade ago, there was a similar product called "Sekai Camera" [1]. In Japan it was heavily hyped and then spectacularly failed. Maybe it was too early. Maybe the implementation was bad. Or the idea isn't as great as it appears. We'll see.
[1] https://wsa-global.org/winner/sekai-camera/
[2] https://thebridge.jp/en/2013/12/sekai-camera-closesOh hey, I had this absolute exact idea 10 years ago. I ended up pivoting to something else, but I'll watch your development with keen interest :)
I love this. There's a virtual treasure hunt / digital geocaching application in there.
I’ll add one more comment as a person who once worked on something similar to this. It looks like lots of people were working on “location based tweeting” around 10 years ago.
It makes sense as around that time Twitter was growing fast and location based services like Foursquare and Gowalla were popular. As well as Google/Niantic Ingress.
Our iteration was based on the concept of “shouts” that had a location and a visibility radius. Reshouts would increase the radius further.
Unsolicited idea: Constrain your marketing focus to a university town and you got yourself a million dollar idea.
Have you considered linking this to Notion / Roam Research API etc?
Higher level concept than standalone 'sticky note' is worth exploring. Lots of indigenous cultures were/are based on memory techniques based on tying specific pieces of knowledge to exact locations: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29759605-the-memory-code
Twitter lets you search for tweets near any location. It's not an exact location because nobody really wants strangers on the internet to know their exact location.
Cool to see this space get some more activity. Wasn't this the general idea of Color Labs [1] way back like 10 years ago? It was a neat social experiment that suffered from over-hype and geographical limitations of networking effects.
Neat idea, it just needs to be less centralized. A lot more people (myself included) would be interested if this was a federated protocol or API, and not limited just to iPhones. The real limiting factor here is going to be how well you can get other devices to work with it and developing the extensibility.
I love the idea of juxtaposing real world location and invisible data.
There used to be an app that allowed to tag and write things on wall. It's of course only visible when you are on the spo.
I am huge believer in the coming of time and location restricted layering of data/art/app.
I started a company that did something very similar. Flook.it - We had grand ideas of locating all of the worlds geo data into what we called a location browser. We were one of the first apps on the iPhone. Still think it has legs...
This is awesome, I would love to see this as a feature in some documentation tools. It should not be the only way to consume it, but being able to put notes on a physical device could be awesome in some industrial applications.
Interesting concept! Personally, I'm not seeing much in terms of a practical application here but possibly a recreational one? I'm imagining a game of clue where you follow the notes to some sort of geocache location.
Looks amazing. How do you handle the changing environments?
A sticky note placed on a wall with something written on it should disappear if it's painted over. How do you handle that?
What about indoors where gps may not work?
If the positioning is precision enough, this could be have great applications in many industries.
Imagine having to tap into the work history of a machine and add latest repair works and notes for others.
I’m curious about the name? I assumed (and I suspect most women would) it was going to have something to do with manicures or nail salons.
What's the background for choosing this name?
Reminds me of Findery
Looks like there are a few of us out here, but I had the exact same idea years ago as well :)
This is great. As AR starts to take off, I hope an industry standard for this gets created.
Nice concept! But what's stopping people from being a-holes and leaving shitty notes?
Would be better with AR glasses :-) but amazing work!
Will there be android support?
It's not a bad idea, but the landing page needs more clear non-video illustrations of exactly what the experience looks like. The videos are somewhat helpful but they are so jumpy with lots of quick cuts that it's hard to get a good look.