Re:Ask HN: Review my weekend project - MobilePly
by Jordanian on Monday August 16, 2010 @11:36AM
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Good point, we'll switch this soon. The current code base is more for proof of concept purposes. We were also concerned with having easy ids to send others. We'll get on this!
Re:Ask HN: Review my weekend project - MobilePly
by djb_hackernews on Monday August 16, 2010 @03:19PM
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noticed you used python. Check this discussion out on how to do this really simply.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/367586/generating-random-...
Re:Ask HN: Review my weekend project - MobilePly
by mrduncan on Monday August 16, 2010 @11:52AM
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I'd suggest something like the way that http://bit.ly handles their urls. Auto-generate a short string or let users (maybe after a registration or something) enter their own.
It'd be nice to be able to say "Keep track of my progress at http://mobileply.com/matt or something similar. Heck, I could see myself even paying a couple bucks for a nice url like that.
I went to the "Track Me" link and got a tracking id of 54. I was then able to look through plenty of other peoples locations for IDs less than 54. I'd suggest switching to something that's much harder to guess.
With that harshness out of the way (sorry :)), it does seem like a pretty cool little app. I could see myself using it for a long road-trip or something so that others could track my progress.