Apply HN: Lucal – Discover the world as a local through visual media and VR

Re:Apply HN: Lucal – Discover the world as a local through v... by nthtran on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @12:06AM (#11477193)

Panoramio has a lot of nice photos but just by using it you can tell that it's outdated and not being actively developed. We want to do more than that: local live streams, videos (drone, vines, etc.) as well as VR with 360° photos and videos.

Our goal is to help you get a feel for any place as it currently is and see what's happening there right now, for example weekly local markets, festivals, annual events, etc. Thus the focus is on live and recent visual content that will stop being displayed after a certain time (possibly 1 month).

A cool thing we can potentially do with this is time travel. You'll be able to see what was happening at any place at any given time on Lucal with a timeline slider.

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Re:Apply HN: Lucal – Discover the world as a local through v... by vit05 on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @12:53AM (#11477346)

Google almost shut down the site to integrate exclusively in Googlemaps.

A lot of people responded, including the founders, and Google decided to keep for some time the service. Maybe you should check the Panoramio communities to see what they miss about.

I used Panoramio a lot when I was backpacking. Are you from Brazil too?

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Re:Apply HN: Lucal – Discover the world as a local through v... by nthtran on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @01:59AM (#11477516)

Oh are you from Brazil? We are not from there but are very fond of the place. My cofounders Anton and Brystal used to stay there for a while. Anton did live there for years at one point.

And thank you for the suggestion. We'll do that.

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Re:Apply HN: Lucal – Discover the world as a local through v... by vit05 on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @02:20PM (#11482145)

Yep. :)

I liked the photos from Rio!

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