Meet In The Middle

Share a link & meet your friends midway

8 followers

Share a link & meet your friends midway

8 followers

•

•

Stop wasting time on searching for places to meet. Just share a link with your friends and let them add their location.

Launch tags:Web App•Productivity•API

Launch Team

Viktor.comAn AI coworker that actually does the work

Promoted

Can you elaborate on how your site is differentiated from the other websites that perform this function? It appears that the group-based tool might be unique. Have you considered weighting the locations of your participants? If four people live in Los Angeles and one person lives in SF, it stands to reason that the ideal location isn't halfway between LA and SF (but rather it would be closer to LA). It should minimize net person-miles traveled by the group.

Report

8yr ago

Meet In The Middle

Maker

@searchresults > Have you considered weighting the locations of your participants? - Yes. Just Updated.

Report

8yr ago

@searchresults @inishchith For LA and SF specifically, weighted would be better because there isn't much in the middle. However, generally speaking if its weighted then why not just have the person come over? The middle should simply be the middle, right? Or maybe the option of weighted or unweighted?

Report

8yr ago

Meet In The Middle

Maker

Hello, PH world. 🙂 Meet In The Middle is just a fun idea on which i've been working for last couple of days. The WebApp suggests places to hangout which is closer to every friend of yours on the map!. • Basically exploiting the features provided by Google Maps API along with the concept of InterWeb [ PubNub helped me here :P ] • All your friends share the same view as yours Find more about the implementation : https://github.com/inishchith/Me... Thanks!

Report

8yr ago

Awesome idea! It seems like it's finding the midway point taking driving as the default form of transportation. Any chance there's a way to make public transportation or walking the method?

Report

8yr ago

Great idea, would be cool to have an option to hide the inputted addresses and only show the midpoint area!

Report

8yr ago

Meet In The Middle

Maker

@superspookyuser there's a close option to hide the resultBox. in case you mean the input markers, I don't think that would be great.

Report

8yr ago

@inishchith No I do mean the input markers, atm this can only work for two+ people who are okay to share their home addresses with each other. But If you want to meet someone on, say, craigslist you wouldn't want that person to know where you live, but the midpoint radius would still be useful to both people, if they are meeting from far away.

Report

8yr ago

Meet In The Middle

Maker

@superspookyuser That's a great. Never thought of it. It'll be easy to incorporate, only thing that bothers me is that the extra buttons would just affect the user experience. Still a great thought, i'll try to work around. Thanks ;)

Report

8yr ago

@inishchith Awesome!

Report

8yr ago

Spiral

I love this idea! Since Seattle Downtown isn't very wide we always have this problem when we walk towards each other to meet up 😛

Report

8yr ago

Meet In The Middle

Maker

@zelena Thanks ;)

Report

8yr ago

It's not weighed... Meaning that if you have 2 friends in stop A, and 1 friend in spot B, it will still be halfway, rather than 33% from Spot A, so total travelled distance is minimized. Also - after adding around 4-6 addresses, Google Maps Query limiter kicks in. You might need to throttle and show loading animation. I need 7-10 addresses frequently.

Report

8yr ago

Meet In The Middle

Maker

Hey @vitaliy_hayda, Thanks for addressing the issue.🙂 Update: Resolved!

Report

8yr ago