This is awesome, I love it. Spent at least an hour yesterday mesmerized by it. I always end up checking out the location in the beginning but end up missing a few seconds of the video. It'd be nice to have the location more prominently shown. I think part of the beauty is that you get to see all of these glimpses from people all around the world.
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@kickingthetv Thanks Bryan - for everything! Putting the location in context was a challenge during development. Instagram provides the name if a person picked a location in the app, but about half of all location posts just have the raw coordinates.
I was lucky to find a Node package (https://github.com/teleportd/cou...) that can do country-level reverse geocoding without using an external API. If I added a map to the interface, though, then I think I can use Google or Mapquest's API without any issues - I'll look into it!
Interesting. I also just did a similar hack for the iPhone: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/..., no stream here but a feed of autolooping hyperlapses
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The music matches so well. It's amazing to me how professionally produced the results appear when a good sequence of videos hits. Like a music video. Would be interesting to see what people would create if they could add a filter for the clips and share the result.
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@tacomanator Thank you! Filtering was part of the original plan, but I held off in v1.0 - primarily because there's just barely enough plain #hyperlapse content to sustain a real-time stream. Showing older videos for less popular tags could be okay, depending on how many are available. I'm hoping Hyperlapse will become more popular so I have more content to work with either way!
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@andrewtorkbaker I thought that might be the case.. if you decide to add it in the future, perhaps a filtered stream doesn't necessarily need to be real-time if there are not enough results...
Pretty neat! It'd be great if there was a back button in case there's an interesting one you want the link to but ends before you get a chance.
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@willsamari Thanks! I have thought about a back button (or a playlist history?) too. There are occasionally videos that I see and want to save, if only because they're funny and I want to show them to someone else.
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Hi all! Hypermasher creator here - I'm glad you enjoy it! All this feedback is great - if you've got any other ideas, I'd love to hear them. Thanks!
Another great example showing the synergy of randomness + randomness. I wonder the possibility of scene mining using the lapses to come up with interesting movies.
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