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I built ProxChat - what is it?

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  1. Leahey
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    Hey folks! I'm the guy that also built Pivot the Game and chatted with many of you as I did. My latest lark is ProxChat, which is a full scale rip off of a web app I remember from about 15 years...

    Hey folks! I'm the guy that also built Pivot the Game and chatted with many of you as I did.

    My latest lark is ProxChat, which is a full scale rip off of a web app I remember from about 15 years ago. But, I can't remember the name. Something like Pinenum? Platinumpad? It was a proximity-based simple text chat app with a buddy list, and it was great for things like conferences and classrooms.

    My kingdom for the name of that app. If my version jogs your memory, let me know?

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  2. tauon
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    Looking nice! I especially like how the generated profile avatar/pixel picture seems to be deterministic based on name. That’s great for recognition value :-) As for your question, I can only...

    Looking nice!

    I especially like how the generated profile avatar/pixel picture seems to be deterministic based on name. That’s great for recognition value :-)

    As for your question, I can only think of BitChat which has somewhat similar capabilities, but that’s 1) a mobile, not web app and 2) released more like a year ago, not even, and not 15.
    But then again, I wouldn’t have used such an app in 2011, so I probably couldn’t know.

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  3. Well_known_bear
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    Could it be YikYak? It was similar in the 'chat with people nearby' sense and it was from around 13 years ago, although I don't think it was a web app.

    Could it be YikYak?

    It was similar in the 'chat with people nearby' sense and it was from around 13 years ago, although I don't think it was a web app.

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