Geospatial chat with Convex real time APIs
Hi everyone! I built a geospatial messaging app. It's a big group chat with everyone in a 100 feet radius of you. In the library? Wondering what people are working on? Want to form an on-demand study group? Or maybe you're at an event... need to find people working in fintech. Helps you engage deeper with your physical space.
Some notes:
- right now we are just polling location, sending it up to convex and convex is sending us the live last 10 messages of chat (this is an intention limitation)
- as you move, you'll hop into different localized "group chats" in your main view
- geospatial chat uses geohashing with reactive queries done in Convex backend (which is actually f'ing amazing)
Things I'll be working on this week before I launch / submit it for my class project:
- bug fixes
- making the UI good
- location polling is 50/50 and does the job for treehacks but is nowhere as robust as i want it to be
- adding notifications (not even sure how to approach this but ill figure it out)
props to @Michal Srb @ballingt @Wayne for helping me so much with this!
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https://github.com/shreyfirst/YapBubble/
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@shreygups congrats on completing your app for TreeHacks Hackathon and thanks for sharing. Good luck!
thats actually pretty cool!
Back in the day this was actually the core concept of my startup. Cool to see it built entirely in a hackathon! Excited to see people be so productive with Convex!
@shreygups did you push the changes to the repo? I only see xcode project configs in there. I'd love to see the h3 search code to show to others 🙂
it’s not! forgot to update here
i’ll send over the new frontend and convex repos today
App Store
‎Yappin: Next Level Chat
‎Yappin lets you talk to anyone anonymously nearby. When someone enters your radius, you can chat with them, and when they leave your radius, their messages disappear! Our map feature will show you everyone in your proximity.
For many people, it can be daunting to break the ice in a public setting,…
live on the app store today! we’re doing heavy go to market today here at uc davis
nice!!!
my first startup was in my dorm at ucla
super fun
tried to get as many people in my undergraduate class to use it as I could