Radar Chat

Leave digital messages in the physical world

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Leave digital messages in the physical world

4 followers

Radar Chat lets you communicate with people nearby and discover things in the world around you. Use it to find food trucks, garage sales, good coffee, and more! Plan your next friendly scavenger hunt or leave surprise notes for your loved ones.

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Launch tags:Android•iOS•Messaging

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I really like this idea! Could you compare it to Pokermon Go, but with real world applications? Do you envisage people will leave digital chats for restaurants, bars and anything they may comes across?

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4yr ago

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Maker

@zach_stone I suppose one could compare it to Pokemon Go. Certainly, it's many users first time experience with geolocation. Leaving messages physically within real-world establishments is something that users will likely end up doing. That said, such messages won't be logically "attached" to the business, so there are better platforms out there for aggregating reviews. The real exciting part to me is that they can leave messages at completely arbitrary locations -- like a tree!

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4yr ago

Frida van Lisa

Great idea. I want to start using it but just curious, how do you expect to manage the eternal problem of these apps that if there is nobody in my area or the next area I visit then I will delete it? The famous chicken-egg problem? The cool thing is that it's asynchronous so it can serve a message in a bottle purpose.

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4yr ago

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Maker

@aris_alexis Great question! This might not help you specifically but I'm starting to focus on San Francisco to seed Radar Chat with a bunch of content. For example, requests that are made to the city for cleaning or graffiti (calls through the 311 number) are now imported into the app. I'll keep this up for a while, finding more data sources and moving to more cities. Similar in approach to Facebook launching campus by campus.

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4yr ago

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Maker

Hello Product Hunters! I'm really excited to launch Radar Chat, a product that I've been working on for the last few years. Think of it as a map app for your mobile phone, but one that you can annotate and find things that are more timely. For example, most map apps can't tell you: - Where are the garage sales? - Is my favorite food truck available today? - What areas in SF have the most litter right now? Radar Chat has some paying customers right now and they're using it to award students who check-in to STEM-related businesses that they've partnered with -- think planetariums and science museums. Here's an example of one such customer channel: https://app.radar.chat/#/channel...

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4yr ago

I had a similar idea for triggering conversational experiences at locations. Great to see you bring this to life! Hybrid interactions between the real and digital world create such a cool experience.

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4yr ago

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Maker

@levi_worts The sky is the limit!

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4yr ago

Really nice idea! what about iOS version?

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4yr ago

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Maker

@maxim_soyfer Radar Chat was submitted to the Apple App Store on Dec 17th! We're hoping it gets approved any day now.

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4yr ago

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Maker

@maxim_soyfer Radar Chat is now available on the Apple App Store! https://apps.apple.com/app/radar...

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4yr ago

Grapevine

Thats a really cool idea

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4yr ago

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Maker

@reuben_carter Thanks! I'm glad to hear you like it.

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4yr ago

Oooh I love this idea!

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4yr ago

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Maker

@maxwellcdavis Glad to hear it!

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4yr ago

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