Ask HN: Would a website like this be funny?

2 01-_- 6 6/10/2025, 12:08:02 PM

A social platform focused on hyperlocal communication, allowing people to interact with their neighbors and nearby communities about events, alerts, businesses, complaints, tips and local initiatives.

## Problem

- Lack of a structured platform for local communication.

- Neighborhood groups on social networks are chaotic, with spam, misinformation and zero organization.

- Local businesses have little digital visibility.

- Neighbors don't know each other and miss opportunities for mutual help and community engagement.

## Solution

- A platform that organizes communication by neighborhood and theme, connects residents with local businesses, promotes safety, and strengthens the sense of community.

If you could take a moment and reply to the original post, it would help us a lot. <https://chat-to.dev/post?id=YjR3RXFkVnRPUStNTVQyd3lxZldWUT09>

Comments (6)

sfmz · 3d ago

I think you are describing nextdoor.com

My great social idea is something like MySpace where you design your own page the twist is it has built in chat. I imagine it like your garage where you can tinker with graphic design or wasm and people can swing by to chat.

01-_- · 3d ago

but my idea is to create a mix between Reddit, Nextdoor and neighborhood WhatsApp groups, but with a public, organized and intelligent experience.

sandra_vu · 3d ago

I think some startups raised money with similar ideas before?

solardev · 3d ago

Can we please stop with the chat to dev spam posts? They were posted under a different username in the past. It's always some clickbaity topic that tries to redirect people to that other site.

01-_- · 3d ago

before you start writing nonsense take a look at the posts I've posted and how many of them are relevant to the people here

solardev · 2d ago

It mostly looks like spam: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fchat-to.dev

I stand by what I said... and a lot of them were posted under username cannibalXxx, which has even more spam. They just look like low-effort SEO bait. The self-promotion has gone a bit too far, IMO, but you do you...