Pintalk – Public, location-based chat rooms on a map

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Hi HN,I've been thinking about Paul Graham's idea of Twitter as a communication protocol https://www.paulgraham.com/twitter.html and wanted to experiment with a different kind: location-based chat.I built Pintalk: https://pintalk.onrender.comIt's a simple web app that lets anyone start or join public text conversations tied to specific latitude/longitude coordinates on a map.How it works:Visit the site – the map tries to center near you using browser geolocation or falls back to IP lookup.Click anywhere on the map to open a chat panel for that location.Type your first message and hit send – this creates a persistent pin and conversation room at that spot.Click an existing pin to view the con

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