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Its a pretty neat service, but I'm a bit underwhelmed by the feature-set .. seems like something that could be whipped up in a few hours using OSM's API, with m

Its a pretty neat service, but I'm a bit underwhelmed by the feature-set .. seems like something that could be whipped up in a few hours using OSM's API, with most of the code being the glues/shims to get in on the e-commerce transaction with between OSM->Printer. It'd be cool to be able to submit key points of interests - e.g. ("Grandma's home", "School", "Our Home", "Grocery Store", etc.) would be good to have, for example, for us parents who want to teach our kids to get around their environment. One wonders why the OSM folks don't do this ...

krasin 7y ago
>Its a pretty neat service, but I'm a bit underwhelmed by the feature-set . The post is about business, not tech. You have perfectly highlighted the gist: number of features don't matter for a business to be successful. The main feature does. As an anecdote, many years ago I briefly had a very profitable business, where the product was a rectangle with rounded corners. 15 minutes in Inkscape earned me a decent amount of money. Not a lot of features, but somehow market still wanted it.
- fit2rule 7y ago
  The fact of it being profitable in spite of a lack of sophistication is valid. But the other point is that this service seems to be a clone of maplify - meaning its fair game for yet another copy, albeit with the features I mentioned. That's business, after all...