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Show HN: Owlorbit – Know where your coworkers are and keep your business running (play.google.com)
2 points by owlorbit on Oct 1, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Think of this as Slack with maps integration.

Users can create chat-rooms and see where everyone is on the map. You can get routes, create meet-up points, hide your visibility on a per-channel basis, have quick access to call or email the users. Search for common-points of interests and create a meet-up point there. From the consumer POV, it'd be really interesting if users started using the software for geo-caching. You can search for people too, which would also be interesting if certain communities joined the platform e.g. Food Trucks, Jogging Groups, or if celebrities who were doing book-signings.

In terms of security, I am storing only the very last longitude/latitude that the user sends to me and clearing previous locations. That means I am not building up a history-log of locations.

This will be free for consumers, but I will eventually charge businesses as this potentially could help bosses keep tabs on their employees or help organize companies in the event of a disaster.

So definitely sign-up as soon as possible! I'll be locking up open-beta in a few days and registration will switch to invite-only (where only registered users can invite other users).




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