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Why didn't he switch to a crowd-sourced data model like GasBuddy?
by midnitewarrior 9y ago
Why didn't he switch to a crowd-sourced data model like GasBuddy?
- sologoub 9y agoWas thinking the exact same thing. One possible reason would be wrong info, but you could use some sort of weighted algorithm that would need more than one submission to match and/or trust level per submitter based on historical correctness.
- tedmiston 9y agoExactly. Like what Yelp / Foursquare / Google Places use.
- s73ver 9y agoHow do you get people to input the data in time for it to be useful?
- atestu 9y agoBuild a reward system… reputation might be enough?
- zavulon 9y agoSee my comment above - it would require a significant effort to get off the ground, as the app without data would not be useful to first users, and without the data provided by those first users, it wouldn't be useful to others.
- Pyxl101 9y agoThey already had an app and users. They could have extended it with this functionality.