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@navinkulkarni Yes, I did! It was great. At one of my previous startups, we established a remote team in Pakistan, and after a few years, one of the guys was getting married, so I went out for his wedding. Not many people in his town had met a foreigner before, so I was quite a VIP.
Faisalabad, where I spent most of my time, is quite rural (e.g. camels and donkeys on the street along with cars and motorbikes); but Islamabad (the capital) could really be anywhere in the world, as it's super developed.
Here is a picture of me riding a camel on the street:
@_jacksmith Love to get an invite if you can swing it. But having something like this tied to swarm or facebook to import places you've already been.
@sacbookreviewer I don't think that they have an invite system built yet unfortunately.
I think I saw this earlier on PH, was wondering what would be the input sources for mapping out your locations? Like Swarm/Google Locations etc?
@sarthakgrover currently you can just type anywhere you've been in any format eg I can just type "bali", "london", "sfo", or "golden gate park" and then it google autopopulates the rest of the address. - down the line, other people have suggested that it could pull in places you've checked in on swarm/foursquare and stuff like that. So I'm sure it will come in the future. For now I found it an interesting process to remember all the countries that I'd been.
@sarthakgrover look at the address entry screenshot that I've uploaded in the product hunt "media" section
@_jacksmith Cool, that would be a fun exercise! I've seen some Facebook integrations as well where they use the facebook checkins to visualize the 'countries' you've visited. Like some other folks mentioned here, I too love to see this kind of data representation (places visited via Maps) so will definitely check this out.
Nice, but I just paid $10 for an early beta and I have to add everything manually. Not really worth the effort if you ask me. A swam integration would be nice. https://gyrosco.pe/ does a better job at this.
@jonnotie Yeah, would love to see Gyroscope expand with a feature like this one. I don't think it would be too much of a stretch, since they already have the data and some visualization around locations.
Just signed up! Will there be an embed feature in the future? I'd love to include my map on my website.
This is nice! I have been playing with a similar idea myself for long, since I am a heavy traveller but did not have the time to actually jump on it, so it's good to see somebody taking over it.
Though Conquer.earth seems pretty bare bones to me and cannot justify even the early access of $10. The only thing I get is to drop pins on a map, or am I missing something bigger? i.e. shouldn't I be able to input the dates I travelled to each place so as to have a better view of my travels?
@dcurtis I'd be happy to discuss more over this subject
@k_onstantinos yep. Dustin has said that it's only 80% complete so far; and the $10 isn't really a business model, he's been giving out free invites. He's just charging $10 who wants instant access and doesn't want to wait for it to be ready. I still found it pretty cool to use.
@_jacksmith thanks for the heads up and excited to see what @dcurtis will be adding.
I agree it looks really nice, though can't tell how cool it is to use since I cannot try it. An invitation would be nice ;)
@k_onstantinos the dashboard screenshot that I've uploaded is pretty much the entire product at the moment :)
It would be nice if you could record road trips. For example, driving from Portland to Los Angeles. Obviously there are the places along the way that you stop and visit but those just end up being dots on the map. I could envision a line on the map to illustrate the road trip. Similar to what you would see driving between two points on a map using the Google Maps app on your mobile.
@stephenchip interesting idea. I wonder how that would be visually represented. I guess pulsing lines.
@_jacksmith @neelkadia I have an app that does this exactly (iOS only right now) Owlocator (https://www.producthunt.com/tech...) I can send you a download code if you're interested
TripAdvisor has something already that lists both places you've been and want to go. What's new here? The design does look nice.
Very similar to something I've been working on "Owlocator" (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/...) & on PH (https://www.producthunt.com/tech...) The main difference is that I get either the GPS location from a photo's metadata or you can capture the location right at the spot.
Love it. Reminds me about HelloWorld (http://kaigradert.com/work/#hell...). It was a social platform that used a map as the primary interaction layer. We even had similar animations for connected peers. Love seeing this concept revisited in different forms.
Yes! I've been hoping for something like this / daydreaming of building my own for a long time. Currently I track my travels with an old NYT experimental app called Open.cc, which I can export to a loooong list of GPS coordinates. Hope I can import those someday! I also try to keep a Google map of manually updated locations, but I've found that it doesn't handle over 200 points very well. (map here: https://www.google.com/maps/@1.9...)
The day in 2011 when an iOS update deleted that hidden location history due to the privacy outcry was a sad, sad day for me...
I would *love* an invite to check this out if you've still got room, @dcurtis.
@benburns If your pictures have the gps metadata I can send you a download code for my app Owlocator (https://www.producthunt.com/tech...)
@dcurtis @_jacksmith I really love this -- is this still in active development? Any way to submit and track feedback/feature requests?
@stellupapp #maps is similar and FREE on iPhone 😇🙏👍🌍✈️🌎😍👏🙌 https://www.producthunt.com/tech...
Great Idea, would love to test it out with an invite if there are still some flying around. I like the idea of adding pictures to it as it will give it a nice touch and feel then when you can actually have an impression of the places.
Just got back from South Africa, London, and Hong Kong and I was looking for an online map. This was perfect and super easy to use! Here's my map https://conquer.earth/Diego
Sounds like a killer idea and one I would use. But $10 seems nuts for either early access or for a application that really should cost far less.
@scott_at_large I don't know that I'd describe it as nuts. You get apps that have waiting lists for like a year (ones that I can think of would be Robinhood off the top of my head) and I think that many people would pay $10 for the chance to skip the queue for something like that.
$10 also might have been strategic. If he gets a flood of users, his servers might not be able to scale well enough. $10 probably allows JUST enough people to keep trickling in (people willing to pay that). He tweeted that he had ~80 people in the first 24 hours of launching the paid option: https://twitter.com/dcurtis/stat...
Love the idea but it MUST integrate with Foursquare/Swarm! No way I'm inputting all that data manually. (I travel a lot...)
I'm looking forward to engaging with this app on the social front too -- tagging people I've been places with and writing a short sentence or two about why I went to a given place. Any gamification that's added will jumpstart consistent engagement instead of a once-and-done kind of product.
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