pinpnt.me

where the $#%^! are you?

pinpnt.me is a quick and clean location sharing app. Share your location as easily as sharing a link to co-ordinate a meet up, or track your own location as you move around!

Inspiration

Meeting up with people, especially in crowded or unfamiliar places is hard. Assembling at the University of Waterloo for Hack The North was especially difficult since half our team is from out of town, and one of our members arrived much after dark, when it was difficult to identify both building landmarks and street signs.

Here's an outline of what typically happens without pinpnt.me:

Be confused about where you are
Be confused about where your friend is
Send a text to your friend and wait 5 minutes for no reply
Call your friend, who doesn't hear the phone ring because it's too loud
Walk around aimlessly trying to find your friend
Repeat several times
Feel sad

Here's an outline of the typical user's experience with pinpnt.me:

Be confused about where you are in a foreign or crowded position
Open pinpnt.me
Share link with a friend (or many!)
Friend(s) open the link, share their locations
Walk/otherwise transport yourself with the guidance of your friends
Meet up!
Close pinpnt.me

Target Audience

The lost and/or confused. Anyone looking for a super-quick way to find people.

Awesome Key Features

pinpnt.me is a lightweight web app that uses the Google Maps API to help people find themselves and each other (in a literal sense).

No names
No records
No OS exclusivity
No registration required

The overriding design goal for pinpnt.me was to make it as clean and simple as possible. The idea is that finding yourself and your friends should be as easy as possible, without the hassle of signing up for a service, downloading an app, or worrying that your location data will be recorded or logged.