How Google Maps gets communities together— Coronavirus Edition

It’s my 4th week of home office… and I wanted to do something good about this. And because I’m preparing at work for Google Cloud Platform projects I wanted to sniff what’s all that buzz around third of the TOP 3 cloud providers (after AWS and Azure). That’s how Neightalk started.

It’s not a technical article, it’s more a journey diary of developer like me, who wanted to build something for the people. Whole app is avaliable at https://neightalk.pkolawa.pl

So I’ve opened an account, ignited first year for free (well, almost free) and started my development. But what could be so beneficial, that maybe someday Google will take it over or at least give me unlimited free resources for this particular project? The answer came from above. More specific: upstairs where my neighbors decided to make a party for two. But I know what the are going through: they’ve kept the same amount of carbs while staying home without any chance to burn that calories down. They were like a cats — always going crazy 30 minutes before human bedtime.

So what did I need to share my thoughts with them without standing on their door step? Well, I needed a small announcements page. But not another Gumtree, Craigslist or OLX, this time it needed to be geolocation-based, so I needed a map.