MichalBryxi, 15 days ago

The main idea here is that for years I hade 24/7 shared location with trusted circle of people, so that I have a chance of getting help in case something goes significantly sideways on my (mountain) adventures.

And as #GoogleMaps is getting less and less useful, I thought that finding an alternative for this one use-case should be easy.
It is not. All the solutions I've found have questionable ideas about data processing or steep pricing model or vendor lock-in or all of the above.

So I thought that for folks with similar needs I should build easy(tm) to start & operate alternative.

MichalBryxi, 15 days ago

For the #geeks out there:

1. There is pre-built solution for locaiton sharing & collection using #LlamaLab #Automate, but anything that can fire HTTP request would do
2. There is prepared manual on how-to host your own data on #firebase
3. Client is just a web app that can take the #JSON object and splash it on a map

MichalBryxi, 15 days ago

At the time I was building this I was watching (on and off, finished just now) "An introduction to #SmallWeb" from @aral

I've used completely different stack in my project, but I think the fundamental thoughts (decentralised, private, ownership) are the same.

Really cool to see similar thoughts around 🐱

https://vimeopro.com/newcrafts/newcrafts/video/842224883?utm_content=buffer9e531&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

aral, 15 days ago

@MichalBryxi PS. It’s come a long way since last year when that video was recorded.

See: https://ar.al/2024/03/08/streaming-html/ and https://ar.al/2024/03/26/draw-together/ for a taste of the authoring improvements and https://ar.al/2023/02/20/end-to-end-encrypted-kitten-chat/ for a little example of the kind of peer to peer Web interactions all this will hopefully result in one day :)

aral, 15 days ago

@MichalBryxi 💕

Got a link to what you’re working on? Would love to check it out :)