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3 questions: 1) wont this lead to everyone standing at the same positions? 2) isnt this useless at peak times ( exactly how often can you choose where to stan

3 questions: 1) wont this lead to everyone standing at the same positions? 2) isnt this useless at peak times ( exactly how often can you choose where to stand) 3)isn't this simple enough to build it yourself rather than pay someone else to do? PS:i see that you and your sister are trying to build a business, rather than making an interesting project. If so, your site looks rather amateuristic

bdotdub 17y ago
Hey Vincent, thanks for the questions. 1. If that becomes the case, we'll be rich ;) 2. Do you mean because you're running to catch a train? Usually I find myself pacing back and forth not knowing where to stand. 3. The data for this app is not publicly available so my partner and his sister had to run around the city to every station and mark down every exit and stairwell. The whole process of checking, rechecking, and confirming took them ~2 months re: website. We hadn't planned on releasing this just yet but a major newspaper had a blog post that ran early this morning so we had to hack this together :) It'll get better in time!
andreyf 17y ago
1) Not nearly enough people will use this for this to be an issue. 2) You can choose the car you get on at all times but the very very peak times. 3) Only for routes I take often - need to be at 5th car of B train transfer to F/V to get off on 23rd. Need to be on 2nd car of B train to transfer to R to get off at Rector. I'm obsessive about optimizing things, so $2 certainly seems worth it for all my other trips. As far as the site, I think the YouTube video should be more prominent, and should have more screentime for the app.
yan 17y ago
Regarding your first point, people who ride to/from the same stations often already do this; this will give the wanderers a leg up.
vaksel 17y ago
it doesn't look that amateurish. the only thing that can be called that is the Vimeo video, the rest looks professional enough.

bdotdub 17y ago

Hey Vincent, thanks for the questions. 1. If that becomes the case, we'll be rich ;) 2. Do you mean because you're running to catch a train? Usually I find myself pacing back and forth not knowing where to stand. 3. The data for this app is not publicly available so my partner and his sister had to run around the city to every station and mark down every exit and stairwell. The whole process of checking, rechecking, and confirming took them ~2 months re: website. We hadn't planned on releasing this just yet but a major newspaper had a blog post that ran early this morning so we had to hack this together :) It'll get better in time!

andreyf 17y ago

1) Not nearly enough people will use this for this to be an issue. 2) You can choose the car you get on at all times but the very very peak times. 3) Only for routes I take often - need to be at 5th car of B train transfer to F/V to get off on 23rd. Need to be on 2nd car of B train to transfer to R to get off at Rector. I'm obsessive about optimizing things, so $2 certainly seems worth it for all my other trips. As far as the site, I think the YouTube video should be more prominent, and should have more screentime for the app.

yan 17y ago

Regarding your first point, people who ride to/from the same stations often already do this; this will give the wanderers a leg up.

vaksel 17y ago

it doesn't look that amateurish. the only thing that can be called that is the Vimeo video, the rest looks professional enough.