Ask HN: If you were going to walk across the US, what apps would you use? Just a curious question. What apps would you use to socialize with others along your trip? A blog? Twitter? Facebook page? Quora? Instagram? None of these? Just some? Others? : ) |
He setup a blog prior to leaving and made many posts every day. I think they also setup some web script that let him ping his location to his website whenever he wanted. It was very easy to track him.
Why would you need Quora? Instagram could be neat.
Depends what your reasons for walking across the country are. If it is to escape the pressures of every day business life, then I'm not sure you'd want all that much technology.
It's a shame there aren't more replies to this. I'm sort of weirded out to see the question, given my recent decision to do just that. :-/