Pieter Levels
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard Aug 2024
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And then I also added tagging so people could like write something on a specific location. So don't go here or like here's like nice cafes and stuff. And man, the memes that came from that. And I also added uploading so that the tags could be uploaded. So the memes that came from that is like amazing. Like people in Los Angeles would write crazy stuff. It would go viral in all these cities.
You can allow, allow your location. And it will probably send you to Austin. Yeah.
Air bro and bros.
I saw a guy in a fish costume get beaten up here.
Overpriced and underwhelming.
They go from frat to douche.
It's like the district. Exercise freaks on the river. Yeah, that's true.
I want to know this story.
Yeah, and that's like stuff I couldn't come up with because I don't know Austin. I don't know the memes here, the subcultures.
That's like because of Reddit, you know, upvote, downvote. It's good from there.
I think I added the text like a week after. So here's like the pixels.
I think here the problem was that you have this data, but it's not... locked to one location. So I had to normalize it. So when you click, when you draw on the map, it will show you the specific pixel location and you can convert the pixel location to a GPS coordinate, right? Like a latitude, longitude. But the number will have a lot of commas or a lot of decimals, right?
Because it's very specific. Like it's like this specific part of the table. So what you want to do is you want to take that pixel and you want to normalize it by removing like decimals, which I discovered, so that you're talking about this neighborhood or this street, right? So that's what I did. I just took the decimals off and then I saved it like this. And then it starts going to like a grid.
And then you have like a grid of data. You get like a pixel map kind of.
Yeah, I started adding blurring and stuff. I think now it's not smooth again because I liked it better. People like the pixel look kind of. Yeah, a lot of people use it and it keeps going viral. And every time my maps build, like Mapbox, I had to stop using, I first used Google Maps, it went viral. And Google Maps, it was out of credits.
So I, and I had to, it's so funny, during, when I launched it, it went viral. Google Maps, the map didn't load anymore. It says over the limit, you need to contact enterprise sales. And I'm like, but I need now like a map. So, and I don't want to contact enterprise sales. I don't want to go on a call schedule with some calendar. So I switched to Mapbox and then had Mapbox for years.
And then it went viral and I had a bill of $20,000 was like last year. So they helped me with the bill. They said, you know, you can pay less. And then I now switched to like an open source kind of map platform. So it's a very expensive project and never made any dollar money, but it's very fun, but it's very expensive.
Yeah. I mean, I don't think a map hosting service should cost this much, you know, but I could host it myself, but that would be, I don't know how to do that, you know, but I could do that.
I think that the thing is more about you can't make money with this product. I tried to do many things to make money with it and it hasn't worked.
I think map apps are very hard to like monetize. Like Google Maps also doesn't really make money. Like sometimes you see these ads, but I don't think there's a lot of money there. You could put like a banner ad, but it's kind of ugly. And the project is kind of like, it's kind of cool. So it's kind of fun to like subsidize it. And it's kind of a little bit part of Nomad List.
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