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Show HN: Make My Drive Fun – plan a road trip with funky places along the way

4 points by qrv3w 9y ago

qrv3w 9y ago
This was a fun weekend project that I made because I will soon be moving and wanted to find some cool places to stop. Here's an example of the output (SF to LV): https://makemydrive.fun/directions/HipHummingbird https://makemydrive.fun/directions/HipHummingbird. In case anyone is curious about how it works the source is available [1]. It is written in Go and it relies heavily on the amazing Open Source Routing Machine backend [2]. Would love any feedback on improvements on the design or code. [1]: https://github.com/schollz/makemydrivefun https://github.com/schollz/makemydrivefun [2]: https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend
stankal 9y ago
Congrats on shipping! I really like this and would use it since we take road trips often with the family. Couple of suggestions: 1) Add the name of the funky place and a link to it in directions header. Instead of just saying "from Ocala Florida" say "from Ocala Florida to Tony's Artistic Taxidermy and Museum" and link to it. I know it's in the map, but scanning the list is easier than browsing the map 2) Add ability to remove/add places and customize the list. I think it's a great way to discover places along the way
- qrv3w 9y ago
  Thanks for the tips! I think improving the list would be good, I like your suggestion. Adding/removing places would be very cool too, I hope to add that.
bernardhalas 9y ago
Cool idea with a design matching the purpose of the website (from my perspective). Any chance to expand this to other continents as well? What's blocking you from including Europe for example? I did a test search (New York, NY to Montreal, Canada) and I got a pop-up asking me to spread the knowledge on social network if I like the site - at this point in time it's too soon to ask for that, consider moving that to a later stage of the workflow. Perhaps you could consider limiting the suggestions to random ~30 results no matter the length of the trip as to me it looks like that currently the longer the journey, the more suggestions you give. Other than that, I became strongly interested as this type of travelling we prefer. I'd love to learn about the news on the progress, would it be possible to sign-up for a newsletter? If you want feedback from more people, you can try https://usability.testing.exchange https://usability.testing.exchange (disclaimer: I am associated with it).

4 points by qrv3w 9y ago

This was a fun weekend project that I made because I will soon be moving and wanted to find some cool places to stop. Here's an example of the output (SF to LV): https://makemydrive.fun/directions/HipHummingbird https://makemydrive.fun/directions/HipHummingbird. In case anyone is curious about how it works the source is available [1]. It is written in Go and it relies heavily on the amazing Open Source Routing Machine backend [2]. Would love any feedback on improvements on the design or code. [1]: https://github.com/schollz/makemydrivefun https://github.com/schollz/makemydrivefun [2]: https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend

stankal 9y ago

Congrats on shipping! I really like this and would use it since we take road trips often with the family. Couple of suggestions: 1) Add the name of the funky place and a link to it in directions header. Instead of just saying "from Ocala Florida" say "from Ocala Florida to Tony's Artistic Taxidermy and Museum" and link to it. I know it's in the map, but scanning the list is easier than browsing the map 2) Add ability to remove/add places and customize the list. I think it's a great way to discover places along the way

qrv3w 9y ago
Thanks for the tips! I think improving the list would be good, I like your suggestion. Adding/removing places would be very cool too, I hope to add that.

bernardhalas 9y ago

Cool idea with a design matching the purpose of the website (from my perspective). Any chance to expand this to other continents as well? What's blocking you from including Europe for example? I did a test search (New York, NY to Montreal, Canada) and I got a pop-up asking me to spread the knowledge on social network if I like the site - at this point in time it's too soon to ask for that, consider moving that to a later stage of the workflow. Perhaps you could consider limiting the suggestions to random ~30 results no matter the length of the trip as to me it looks like that currently the longer the journey, the more suggestions you give. Other than that, I became strongly interested as this type of travelling we prefer. I'd love to learn about the news on the progress, would it be possible to sign-up for a newsletter? If you want feedback from more people, you can try https://usability.testing.exchange https://usability.testing.exchange (disclaimer: I am associated with it).