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Quick question.. What is to stop me and all my friends using this on my bus to farm gift cards? I travel for 3 hours per day, I'm sure between the 6 of us we co

Quick question.. What is to stop me and all my friends using this on my bus to farm gift cards? I travel for 3 hours per day, I'm sure between the 6 of us we could be a real pain in the ass.

mrsamaki 14y ago
--You get a huge "point bonus" for using a car charger, which is a real cheap way to ensure that you're in a car, versus just standing in a bus. Also prevents us from murdering your iPhone battery. --Given the way most busses operate (rough start/stops, crazy fast speeds, rush rush rush), you'd probably throw off the algorithm, which would flag you as "unsafe driving", and give you a shitty amount of points. --At least for our test group, we couldn't find that many people willing to put down their iPhone when they didn't have to...Especially sitting on a bus for 3+ hours. Lots of folks said that they would do that, but boredom always got the best of them.
- shanelja 14y ago
  Ahhh I see, that makes a lot of sense, thanks for clarifying and I agree, not using my phone for that period of time would be difficult, that's why I keep my laptop on my for use on the bus (yeah, I'm one of those weird bus laptop people) - I might install this and see how much I can screw around with it (all in the name of improvement of course) for instance, can I sandbox this so it doesn't know when I use my phone, etc. One major issue I have is this - internet coverage isn't perfect (I don't know about the US but it sure sucks in the UK when you're in the country!) so surely disconnecting for a few minute while you go over a hill, etc, would be detrimental to your points. Personally, if I cared enough about this application not to use my phone, I would probably check it out of paranoia to see if the loss of internet in rural areas lost me points and it wold actually be a negative impact, so with this in mind, how do you handle lag / disconnection / poor coverage? Of course, these are edge cases, but important ones which could lose you custom in the long term.
  - mrsamaki 14y ago
    It doesn't need the internet to work. Once you log in, we keep you logged in (unless you reboot your iPhone). So even if you reach a dead zone, you're fine. Just make sure you have internet when you try to save your points :-)
    - shanelja 14y ago
      Oh I see, so the points are stored locally then uploaded to your server? Definitely going to download this and see what I can mess around with then, would love to see if I can inject a ridiculously long route and have it run 24/7 to trick it in to thinking I'm simply the most amazing driver and rack up points then upload the route and drop you an email when I'm worth a few thousand dollars worth of gift cards. :)

Quick question.. What is to stop me and all my friends using this on my bus to farm gift cards? I travel for 3 hours per day, I'm sure between the 6 of us we could be a real pain in the ass.

mrsamaki 14y ago

--You get a huge "point bonus" for using a car charger, which is a real cheap way to ensure that you're in a car, versus just standing in a bus. Also prevents us from murdering your iPhone battery. --Given the way most busses operate (rough start/stops, crazy fast speeds, rush rush rush), you'd probably throw off the algorithm, which would flag you as "unsafe driving", and give you a shitty amount of points. --At least for our test group, we couldn't find that many people willing to put down their iPhone when they didn't have to...Especially sitting on a bus for 3+ hours. Lots of folks said that they would do that, but boredom always got the best of them.

shanelja 14y ago
Ahhh I see, that makes a lot of sense, thanks for clarifying and I agree, not using my phone for that period of time would be difficult, that's why I keep my laptop on my for use on the bus (yeah, I'm one of those weird bus laptop people) - I might install this and see how much I can screw around with it (all in the name of improvement of course) for instance, can I sandbox this so it doesn't know when I use my phone, etc. One major issue I have is this - internet coverage isn't perfect (I don't know about the US but it sure sucks in the UK when you're in the country!) so surely disconnecting for a few minute while you go over a hill, etc, would be detrimental to your points. Personally, if I cared enough about this application not to use my phone, I would probably check it out of paranoia to see if the loss of internet in rural areas lost me points and it wold actually be a negative impact, so with this in mind, how do you handle lag / disconnection / poor coverage? Of course, these are edge cases, but important ones which could lose you custom in the long term.
- mrsamaki 14y ago
  It doesn't need the internet to work. Once you log in, we keep you logged in (unless you reboot your iPhone). So even if you reach a dead zone, you're fine. Just make sure you have internet when you try to save your points :-)
  - shanelja 14y ago
    Oh I see, so the points are stored locally then uploaded to your server? Definitely going to download this and see what I can mess around with then, would love to see if I can inject a ridiculously long route and have it run 24/7 to trick it in to thinking I'm simply the most amazing driver and rack up points then upload the route and drop you an email when I'm worth a few thousand dollars worth of gift cards. :)