Comments on: IDEA #100 – Twitter License Plate social network

By: Marco

Marco — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:26:06 +0000

Hi Steve,

Agree, a great idea! I just launched http://twhonk.com (beta) for License Plate Tweets. Go ahead, be my first beta tester. Any feedback is appreciated.

Greetings,

Marco

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:14:33 +0000

I think Dash Text is just a copy of http://www.YourPlates.com …

By: andy

andy — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:43:32 +0000

If you want to see this idea in action you can go to http://www.yourplates.com

By: Vijayakumar

Vijayakumar — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:44:01 +0000

Steve,

As you told earlier for my reply, I have started to validate the idea with existing players and found that http://www.dashtext.com/ doing similar to twitter but based their license plates to twitt, so I don’t think I can work on this idea anymore.

Anyway thanks for posting your ideas and keep posting.

Regards,
Vijay

By: Vijayakumar

Vijayakumar — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:53:42 +0000

Does any one started to work on this stuff ? if not I would like to take this idea with me to build.

By: Mason

Mason — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:52:32 +0000

@Jeff – Maybe it’s because it was 1999, and people weren’t used to yelling random nothings into the dark like they are now. Twitter does for normal users what bulletin boards and forums did for nerds in the 80’s and 90’s – give people a platform to start flames.

I don’t think I’d sign up for this service outright, but if it were happening on Twitter, I could see myself using it. That’s one of the mystical things about it – Twitter enables you, as users, to create ad-hoc uses for the platform. It’s why we have Follow Fridays and hashtags and Caturdays.

By: Jeff Raab

Jeff Raab — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:46:34 +0000

Steve – we actually had an idea similar to this at StoneAge.com (circa 1999) – our CEO registered the domain name driver2driver.com and gave everyone their own email address based on their license plate.

So if your plate was XYZ123 and you were from Michigan, your email address was MIXYZ123@driver2driver.com.

Cool idea, but we never got any traction with it…