Bark is an app that lets you bark at other people within 1 mile of you

Posted by nicbarker on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @11:51PM
from the self-post dept.

Hi guys, Bark is an app for android, iPhone and iPad. You can choose from 9 dogs with different faces and sounds. You can then bark with your dog to all the other dogs within 1 mile of where you are. You can see roughly how far away other dogs, but there's no actual location or identity information.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bark.barkapp https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bark./id902026569?ls=1&mt=8

You can watch bark as it spreads across the world at http://www.barkstats.com

Hope you enjoy using it as much as we enjoyed building it.

Cheers

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Re:Bark is an app that lets you bark at other people within ... by yen223 on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @06:45AM (#8141846)

I'm going to make an app called "Shout", where you can "shout" to people within a 20-foot radius. It's going to be voice activated.

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Re:Bark is an app that lets you bark at other people within ... by percept on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @11:48AM (#8143072)

Pretty sure that homeless guy beat you to it.

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Re:Bark is an app that lets you bark at other people within ... by CatsoCatsoCatso on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @08:07AM (#8142038)

My only gripe is the blurriness of the dog icon when it's enlarged to be your own avatar.

Can you not increase the resolution slightly? I'd like my dog-face to be chiselled and clear - not all blurry and chinless.

Otherwise this is pretty amusing.

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Re:Bark is an app that lets you bark at other people within ... by cmstoken on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @01:09AM (#8141124)

Awesome app. I have a feeling this will be the next Yo[1]. Someone with a ProductHunt account should also post it there :)

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/18/yo-yo/

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Re:Bark is an app that lets you bark at other people within ... by nicbarker on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @02:12AM (#8141263)

Funny story, we actually pitched this app to the yo founder Or Arbel at a demo day...

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Re:Bark is an app that lets you bark at other people within ... by justhw on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @01:24AM (#8141152)

I posted it to PH. Should be there tomorrow morning.

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Re:Bark is an app that lets you bark at other people within ... by nicbarker on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @02:11AM (#8141254)

Cheers mate, really appreciate it.

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Re:Bark is an app that lets you bark at other people within ... by sydneyitguy on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @02:27AM (#8141307)

It's kind of similar joke as Yo, but what it does is quite different.

Yo: Between your friends / Bark: Random neighborhood Yo: Anywhere in the world / Bark: Only within 1 mile

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Re:Bark is an app that lets you bark at other people within ... by CmonDev on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @04:00AM (#8141494)

Will it be possible to "pee" on things to mark the territory via geo-tagging?

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Re:Bark is an app that lets you bark at other people within ... by motyar on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @05:59AM (#8141753)

We need such more shit to save the world.

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Re:Bark is an app that lets you bark at other people within ... by pizza on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @10:13PM (#8145960)

it's a shame I couldn't download it when you were demoing it :)

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Re:Bark is an app that lets you bark at other people within ... by sebaya on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @12:40AM (#8141025)

Hahaha this is amazing

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Re:Bark is an app that lets you bark at other people within ... by newmszzz on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @02:19AM (#8141284)

great! seems really funny

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