Show HN: Anysphere, home for important, long-form conversations Hi everyone! I’m Arvid, cofounder of Anysphere ( https://anysphere.co ). With my two friends Sualeh and Shengtong I have been spending the last few months building a dedicated home for important, long-form conversations. We’re super excited to let the HN community test it out! We think that no existing platform for point–to-point communication prioritizes the conversations that you actually care about and that really matter. Instant messaging is filled with careless texts and stickers, email is filled with receipts and spammers, and physical mail, while better in those respects, is slow and cumbersome. None of the existing platforms are private enough. Anysphere attempts to fix this. It is private, secure, desktop-first and only allows people you added to contact you. Our whitepaper ( https://ift.tt/DVNX0OW ) describes our privacy and security model in detail — in short, we protect all of your data and metadata against everyone (even our own server). Our client is fully open source: https://ift.tt/a0Jy2LX . We deployed a small server to open up testing to everyone in the HN community. Instructions are here: https://ift.tt/CWOXric... . I can’t wait to hear your thoughts! https://ift.tt/UCTna1Y August 15, 2022 at 06:47AM
Show HN: StreetComplete, an OpenStreetMap Editor for Humans StreetComplete is an OpenStreetMap[0] editor directed at people who want to contribute and want to do this using their smartphone, without learning how to edit things[1]. It is available as an Android application. It is intended to be used as one walks, with quests appearing as markers on the map. Selecting a marker allows one to answer a simple question. The answer will be added to the OpenStreetMap database, with app handling selecting objects for editing, transforming answer into OSM tags and making edits. OpenStreetMap account is needed to apply edits, but it is possible to start without it, make some edits and login/register later. Note: I am not the main author, but I am one of the active contributors. Github page is at https://ift.tt/2g8lasH and https://ift.tt/3nR9PzS shows what was recently released. [0]OpenStreetMap is a Wikipedia of maps, available on the open licence. This dataset is already used for many interestin...
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