Just a new feature for instagram or idea for a total new app?
Hi,
Recently my bike was stolen in my home city. I really, really loved my bike. So as you can imagine I was devastated...
But Shawn Achor learned me in his book (The happiness advantage), that every setback has a way up. So I was thinking about some new opportunities that could be taken in advantage over this negative situation.
To find my bike I've hung 'stolen bike' posters all over the city in the hope somebody will find and return my bike. But I didn't quite found a way to 'alert' all the people on the internet that lived like in a radius of 15 km's of me. Sure, I used Facebook and Twitter with the appropriate hashtags, but still i wasn't quite satisfied about how to alert a big group of people of this event in my city. (I used foursquare and placed tips containing a picture of my bike and a short message at every hot spot in town, but that was quite the hassle, and not really what foursquare is for...)
(TL;DR): So my question is this: would you use an app that let you take and share a picture (text, video, ...) with only the people in a specific radius of your location? This could be anything !! Example: a stolen bike, a lost dog/cat, a nice view, ... you name it!!! Other people can react to the picture, or just ignore it. It's quite simple actually. It's almost like Tinder, but not for dating... And hey, tinder works!
Greetings! Can you not just search for your own city's hashtag? yes, that's what i did. And seems like a logical solution... But still, it doesn't seem quite the right one I think. Example, first a 15k radius includes several different city's here, so i'll have to add all of them. Second, people have to 'pull' my picture because they don't always browse instagram on their city hashtag. I want to 'push' it to them. Like a Tinder feed where you swipe through possible matches.