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“I made an app that orders delivery to a random location, and ubers you there” (twitter.com/chromakode)
261 points by robtaylor on May 15, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 28 comments


Be sure to read down the Twitter stream as the creator documents its maiden voyage to a gas station.

Maybe someone can make a partner app that buys you an outfit of random items and tees up a random date. Then live stream each meet up.


Based on how compatible it thinks you and your date are it could also include things in the order that it thinks you should use against/with each other... from nerf guns to condoms.


Do you have any ideas on a website that allows you to buy an outfit with an api?


I found it. Zinc.io allows you to buy an outfit through amazon.


Magic, using Twilio?


From the headline, I thought it was for credit card fraud! Order valuable, fenceable goods with a stolen credit card, and then use Uber to make sure you're at the random location when the goods arrive.


Maybe this is useful after all.


That was one of the best twitter streams I have ever read! definitely one of the worst ideas ever conceived!


It's a Tor exit node for you and your food.


Nice, next update splits the trajectory between different ubers so the government "can't" track you, lol


I prefer eating at hidden services


Now, the true measure of the latest bubble will be how long it takes for this person gets an unsolicited offer...


Looks like he already did...


Proof??


All I found was this https://mobile.twitter.com/dougdescombaz/status/731980903459... in the linked thread


The world has needed this.


Ironically, if you add some social element to it, you will probably get more long-term users than apps like "Yo" did.

Probably need to filter locations so that you don't end up outside a prison and you could also pick the food joint based on the nearest restaurant that delivers to the random picnic area.

Stupidhackathon not withstanding, this idea isn't bad at all.


Randomness is always awesome. More apps/products should inject some.


What API does this use for delivery? Postmates?


Couldn't find an API I liked so I automated EAT24 with a Chrome extension



Whoops. Dude left his Google API key in the source: https://github.com/chromakode/picnic/blob/master/utils.js#L1


Thanks for the heads up. This is a key marked for use on the client side in web browsers, so I didn't consider it necessary to remove: https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/6158862?hl=en#creati...


At least it's not just "orders delivery to a random location". Oh the amount of trolling that would lead to.


That's a really great, terrible idea.


Twitter liveblogged thread documenting outcome. Not me.


are you the "redcap" rob taylor?


no - and just googled him and he is much smarter than me :)




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