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I feel like there is definitely something in this basic idea. Although I'm not sure that a rigid 1 mile boundary really makes a whole lot of sense. I'll explain: I feel like the…

I like this idea, the UI is fast and nice to use. I built something similar. The idea was to be able to play multiplayer games with people nearby. My motivation was simply to…

Very nice. I did something similar to test out Meteor.js, but it's much less polished than yours. http://mapchat.meteor.com/

There is no way someone is using this app a mile around me! I think 1 mile is too small of a distance, I would make it 5 or 10 miles. Or do something based on location, if you…

I agree that the 1 mile is too rigid. There are only going to be about 3,000 people within a mile radius of me (~1K/sq mile) whereas in Manhattan you would expect around 210,000…

Love the idea. Wish the radius was wider. There aren't any chats near me, and I'm in a densely populated area. Since you're taking people's location, be sure to include a…

I was hanging out in Oakland for 45 minutes and didn't see another person come by -- I was expecting the Bay Area would have the densest group of people trying this out.

In it's current form this doesn't work because chat requires almost immediate feedback.

I wrote the exact same thing about 3 years ago, according to HN timestamps: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2102790 I also had an arbitrary chat radius, initially. After…

Already been done, Messaging within a 1 mile radius https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/popcorn-messaging/id718416705?mt=8

Reminds me of Popcorn app. This looks like a very similar idea but for the web.

Tried it for me. No-one online now. Another idea: Chat-room with the nearest 100 people. Scales up and down.

I see one of these pop up every so often and always get disappointed when there is no one in my area. I wonder if this sort of thing might work better if it connected you with…

There is no way someone is using this app a mile around me! I think 1 mile is too small of a distance, I would make it 5 or 10 miles. Or do something based on location, if you…

Private message between users as an option? So if I wanna talk to Brian later, I can PM them. Combine chat with interesting people, with random chances of meeting new people.

Very well done. Any background on how this is built? E.g. chat engine etc?

Already been done, Messaging within a 1 mile radius https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/popcorn-messaging/id718416705?mt=8

I've been trying the somewhat similar Yik Yak (mobile app) for about two weeks. It had flood of college students home for the summer so I assume it's taken off at colleges.

15 years too late, Caramail was doing the same in france since 1997 (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/CaraMail) This is the type of thing where people will show up, see that their…

I too feel that the market has spoken on this: see http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/meetro and many others that failed.