Etch.it

Etch.it

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A geolocation based site where you can view and add comments about any place you’re near!

Judging Instructions

log in using twitter or facebook. type in your message and add it! voila! Note: Please ensure that you use stable release of chrome, firefox or ie9 and above

Who

• aeshanw
• shekhei — Singapore
• flystax — Singapore
• kjchoy

How

twitter auth facebook auth expressjs minimal-test jquery everyauth google maps html5 geolocation socket.io typekit fonts and icons from http://www.danieleckermann.com/linkdeck/

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• emckean

  judge

  8 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
  it’d be great to see a timeline of recent places/comments. Small nit: it’s “collaborative”. :–)
• chrismatthieu

  judge

  8 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
• ryanmcgrath

  judge

  8 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
  Design is good, could be useful to people. Innovation… I don’t see how this pushes anything Node related. Overall complete enough.

  • shekhei

    contestant

    We are making use of node to have a persisted socket connection to the backend to ensure light data transfer, and splitting the word into grids to speed up broadcast and transfer of messages between uses of the same area, i hope perhaps that’s at least some stuff done with node :)

• therazorblade

  judge

  9 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
  The original artwork is really nice but the map items are pretty standard. When I clicked ‘add message’ nothing seems to happen so not sure if it added anything. I don’t think simple map annotation is very interesting. I think need at least some categories or layers or link the messages to Twitter followers or FB friends.

  • shekhei

    contestant

    could you try it again? cause we couldnt find the issue, its working :)

  • therazorblade

    judge

    I did. Got most of it working. Updated my review. Thanks!

  • shekhei

    contestant

    thanks for your comments!

  • kjchoy

    contestant

    thanks for the comments. yeah, the map annotation is something we should emphasize on.

    strange, you should see a ‘message added’ notification after you added the message.

• nddrylliog

  judge

  9 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
  ERR::EMPTY_RESPONSE when trying to use it. Too bad! The concept looked interesting. Update: it loads now! The design is smooth, although it would be great if you could detect when the geolocation stuff is allowed and then display the map automatically. In my case, I saw the authorization bar pop up and then had to reload the page once authorized. Apart from that, well, it’s hard to test cuz nobody’s here :) But I like the idea. I think this could get really crowded in, say, central Tokyo. Have you thought about it? What advantages does it have against, say, Foursquare?

  • flystax

    contestant

    could you try again perhaps? using a chrome/ff stable release? cause we cant quite reproduce it, so, perhaps its working now! :)

  • flystax

    contestant

    Yes, you are right, it will get very crowded in central business area. We are working on to provide a better user interface for user and provide category and filter for users.

    Unlike foursquare, users are not bounded by one place (must check in for a place). We want to see the message spreading in certain area and people can actually reply/comment to that. Further feature even include answer anonymous questions and make friends etc.

• mranney

  judge

  9 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
  This is a nice looking entry and the twitter integration worked flawlessly for me. There aren’t any other users near me, so it was hard to see this app doing anything. It’d be more fun if we could zoom out further, including to see the entire planet.
• jimfleming

  contestant

  9 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
  It doesn’t seem to work for me but a nice idea, nonetheless.

  • shekhei

    contestant

    could you try again perhaps? using a chrome/ff stable release? cause we cant quite reproduce it, so, perhaps its working now! :)

  • jimfleming

    contestant

    You are correct! Appears to work properly now :)

  • shekhei

    contestant

    thank you for trying it again :)

• ssoroka

  judge

  9 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
  Server wouldn’t respond. Error 324 (net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE): The server closed the connection without sending any data. Nice idea.

  • shekhei

    contestant

    could you perhaps try again with chrome/ff(but has to be stable release) we dont seem to be able to reproduce the results using these browsers

  • ssoroka

    judge

    Server responds now, but ran in to problem posting a message:

    Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property ‘coords’ of undefined Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method ‘lat’ of undefined

  • shekhei

    contestant

    that’s interesting! I am so sorry for it not working proper… did it happen only when you post a message?

• sreeix

  contestant

  9 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
  Works well for me now. Quite nice

  • shekhei

    contestant

    could i know what browser you were using? since we cant quite reproduce it… or if yo udont mind, coudl you try again with a chrome/ff stable release browser?

  • shekhei

    contestant

    thanks!

• raoulmillais

  contestant

  9 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness
  Nice idea, love the simple interface and typography. I couldn’t find any other etches though.
• juliogreff

  contestant

  9 months ago

  Utility/Fun	Design	Innovation	Completeness