Comment by ankitml | Hacker News Reader

Comment by ankitml | Hacker News Reader

Thats super cool, some of the issues you may need to address before this becomes too cool.

1. Prevent people from advertising, ok this can be a revenue model also :P

2. Allow me to shout to places other than where I live, like suppose i am visiting a new place. It will be cool to shoutt at the new place before I reach. Though this is not necessary, just a thought.

3. Some kind of block list where I can block certain noisy neighbors whose shouts I dont like.

4. Someone shouting for needing security or SOS, can be highlighted, people around should receive these help requests on priority basis. Can help prevent robbery, protect women from potential harrassments.

Overall this can bring communities together, glue them. Wish you luck with the startup.

Thanks for your feedback. We've thought of these issues before and we are tackling them . Shoutting for help or security is a great use case but one that can be easily abused. We want to make sure we take precautions from people crying wolf too many times.

ya, that is a big concern. Maybe calling for help around can be made a paid feature, crying wolf wont pay but someone in need of help can pay. Well you can think of other things also on how to de-incentivize abuse of system. :)

> Maybe calling for help around can be made a paid feature

You might want to reflect on what you just said :-)

ha ha! I know, I didnt mean it directly paid like today's eCommerce shop and cart stores where in you can buy priority shouts. It has to be prepaid shout credits or pay later. Well in the end the idea is to pinch someone who is shouting for help. Pinching can be monetary or non monetary, but just enough to discourage cry wolfs and not to discourage genuine cases. The balance (ie intensity of pinch) is more difficult to achieve than what the pinch is.

just out of curiosity, where are you guys located, India? I assume Mansi rejected ISB Hyderabad!!

Haha yeah, I shuttle b/w hyderabad and the bay area..but Shoutt is located in the bay. Immigration laws are such a pain.

true! lots of Indians I see have to do that. If you get a chance to come to mumbai, lets have a quick chat on general tech and all.

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