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Quick Start

Go to https://web.telegram.org/#/im?p=@tangleShareBot or search for "tangleShare" in Telegram

Type /start to launch the bot.

Main Menu

prior to all actions you MUST SET YOUR LOCATION!

Search Space ( define a search radius and list all items in your vicinity and chat with the owners )
Share Item ( picture your item, name your item, describe it and upload it to the tangle )
Use current location
Use other location ( will help you how to set a different location within Telegram )

INLINE_MODE: Type @tangleSharebot searchword to list all items in your vicinity (2000km default)

Guide

TangleShare is a bot on the Telegram platform, using the IOTA tangle (devnet) to store user information. In our case this is items and their locations You can then search for items published by others and ask if they would like to share that item with you or do any kind of other exchange you wish.

Technical Setup

Telegram Api, IOTA Tangle, IOTA AREA CODES, Cassandra database, Telegram server, Google Cloud Engine

Google Cloud Engine is running the Telegram bot instance. Cassandra is used to buffer all item data. It is a little bit faster than a tangle query currently.

Telegram server stores the images/photos. Could be stored on Tangle as well Information on the Devnet/Mainnet is pruned from time to time. So this service would require the use of permanodes in the future. But currently Devnet is perfectly fine to showcase.

Telegram itself could be replaced by some chat.ixi/trinity module in the future! Then this sharing platform can become 100% decentralized