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Show HN: Create notes and maps that live outdoors with web and AR integration (auglinn.com)
39 points by orkunbasaran_19 70 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 10 comments
Hey HN,

We built Auglinn to make it easy for anyone to leave notes outdoors and create interactive maps, using AR.

You can: - Pin notes or questions from your desktop that appear as AR notes outside, or - Leave notes or questions while exploring outside with AR, and view them later on your map via phone or desktop.

My favorite feature: creating maps by dragging and dropping photos from your phone.

The story? When I was a kid, my father visited Universal Studios and captured it all on video. When I went there in 2019, I found myself wondering if I was standing in the same spots he had. This curiosity triggered my interest in leaving traces on the world, and hence AR, and then Auglinn happened...

It began for individuals (hobbyists, influencers, anyone), but professionals like urban planners, municipal employees, and some tour guides also loved it, so we added SaaS features later.

Feedback is much appreciated.




Cool idea! I would try to focus on a specific use case in the beginning even if the platform is still broad. It doesn’t work without network effects and it’s hard to get that if 100 people are on and each are using it for something different.


Reminds me a bit of this easter-eggish view on Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Tpm9ZqsvUvTfiHxe6


@orkunbasaran_19, this is a fascinating concept! The integration of AR for creating location-based notes and maps has a lot of potential, especially in fields like tourism, education, and urban development. One idea for expanding this could be to partner with local historical societies or museums to create interactive, location-based historical tours. This could give users a rich, immersive experience beyond just reading plaques or traditional maps. Have you considered any specific use cases or target industries where this tool could make a significant impact? Also, from a strategic marketing perspective, focusing on niche communities that are already engaged with AR could help you gain early adopters and valuable feedback. Would love to hear more about your go-to-market strategy!


Is there a way to export your notes for use in a standard mapping format, something like GIS or KML?


I’m curious why build this versus use any of the existing N versions of this concept that have been created. Probably a majority of them are student projects though…


It's like that instagram thing. There were already so many photo blog things. Like Flickr for example.

Buy to be serious, those other AR attempts clearly didn't have something click that would find its audience and reach that critical mass. This seems to take a unique angle of making it a map-first design. But I've really never experienced the others.


I’ve seen many that are map first. There are N student projects alone that have done this. So maybe the execution was never good but:

1. Why do people want this

2. What’s special about this execution? Map first isn’t new.

Flickr was super successful. None of these other implementations have been. Lots of other photo-oriented things have been successful in the past so it’s clear the market is there. IG also fundamentally changed the UX with the feed, mobile-first design, its filters to make things look better easily, etc. These were very meaningful changes.

I don’t want to crap on others putting themselves out there. It’s hard and vulnerable, I know. But you have to at least acknowledge the space you’re going into and why this is different.


@azinman2 GOTO PRINT [list_N_versions_concept_created]


https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/ar-messaging...

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/googles-ar-save-button-woul...

https://twitter.com/KilroyAR/status/963767972853665792

https://medium.com/shipharder/augmented-sticky-notes-a3a1416...

https://deepgram.com/learn/ar-note-taking-airnote

https://inevitablehuman.com/ar-based-messages-will-change-th...

This just the front page for googling “leave notes ar”

I’ve seen this published in ubicomp journals in the 90s, student projects including a variant I did in the 2000s, and the idea gets repeated over and over again.

I don’t think it’s ever been successful as there isn’t such a compelling use case. You can already leave post its / put up flyers which has the massive advantage of discoverability and simplicity, you can leave reviews on google maps/yelp, and beyond that niche applications like geocaching implement their own lookups. The idea of “just leave whatever you want” is so unspecific as to not really be useful, nor do I even know that I want to read the one note someone randomly left 4 years ago letting me know the toilet was broken.


+1

(the following is a tangential thought to your point):

It will be great when we see an LLM trained on all the posts to HN, and other forums of this ilk. if there were a model finetuned specifically to harvest extremely nascient startup announcements, specifically those that launch via a git-repo-reveal.. and iterate in AI's internal AR simuCorpo9000 and spawn of tooling/ of its own.

This would be a great tool.

I'd like to say to bot (I partially do this already - see [0] --):

"Take this [.git-url-to-repo], give me a mermaid and swimlane and a readme - give me deployment considerations, a ps1 and an aws to deploy to ecs on docker with fastapi on port 8888. use the .env for db creds - and give me a grafana dashboard for [this that and these]."

And its so far doing quite great given how zygote stage we are with AI.

https://i.imgur.com/7YOjJf8.png

https://i.imgur.com/KecrvfZ.png

https://i.imgur.com/tKYsmb9.png

https://i.imgur.com/nCGOfSU.png

https://i.imgur.com/ayDrXZA.png




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