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Thanks for sharing -- happy to offer some "instant feedback": * Alert windows are jarring. My first instinct when I saw it was "ok, thanks for telling me who

by nlh 13y ago

Thanks for sharing -- happy to offer some "instant feedback": * Alert windows are jarring. My first instinct when I saw it was "ok, thanks for telling me who to take, but why are you telling me this in a vacuum?" -- and THEN I saw that you give a comparison. I'd skip the alert window entirely -- just show the list and at the top (or highlight, etc.) show the winner. * It would be SUPER cool if you could calculate whether Surge Pricing / Happy Hour is in effect so the user doesn't have to manually make the choice in the drop-down. No idea if that's possible but the less work you have to make the user do, the better. I'll keep playing around and edit with more thoughts...

xivzgrev 13y ago
Thanks for feedback! It's pretty clear people don't like the alert window, so I'll remove that. What I liked about the alert window is that it displayed results, on same page without needing to scroll, on a mobile device. Would you be OK with scrolling down to the see the results? Re: your second idea, that's definitely come up a lot. They don't have API so it requires a hack around. Are there phone apps out there that read the status from another app? I'm not really thinking of any at moment, but maybe if an app could use the phone to open another app and then read from the screen, that could work...
- projct 13y ago
  You could use an anchor to scroll the page down to the results. the url http://stenographer-arithmetic-82316.bitballoon.com/#information_panel http://stenographer-arithmetic-82316.bitballoon.com/#informa... seems to already do this correctly.
- jacalata 13y ago
  Uber has a mobile website - you could either scrape the site (probably much easier than trying to scrape an app) or capture the traffic and build your own kind of API. There's a service called gargl that says they do that kind of thing, although I haven't got around to looking at them yet.
  - xivzgrev 13y ago
    Hm interesting! I had not heard of gargl - may check it out. This is a hard feature to implement without their permission. There is a benefit to Uber / Lyft, if there was a direct link to their apps. Stack overflow q said exactly same thing - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11878609/is-it-possible-to-scrape-from-a-mobile-app-in-real-time http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11878609/is-it-possible-t...

by nlh 13y ago

xivzgrev 13y ago

Thanks for feedback! It's pretty clear people don't like the alert window, so I'll remove that. What I liked about the alert window is that it displayed results, on same page without needing to scroll, on a mobile device. Would you be OK with scrolling down to the see the results? Re: your second idea, that's definitely come up a lot. They don't have API so it requires a hack around. Are there phone apps out there that read the status from another app? I'm not really thinking of any at moment, but maybe if an app could use the phone to open another app and then read from the screen, that could work...

projct 13y ago
You could use an anchor to scroll the page down to the results. the url http://stenographer-arithmetic-82316.bitballoon.com/#information_panel http://stenographer-arithmetic-82316.bitballoon.com/#informa... seems to already do this correctly.
jacalata 13y ago
Uber has a mobile website - you could either scrape the site (probably much easier than trying to scrape an app) or capture the traffic and build your own kind of API. There's a service called gargl that says they do that kind of thing, although I haven't got around to looking at them yet.
- xivzgrev 13y ago
  Hm interesting! I had not heard of gargl - may check it out. This is a hard feature to implement without their permission. There is a benefit to Uber / Lyft, if there was a direct link to their apps. Stack overflow q said exactly same thing - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11878609/is-it-possible-to-scrape-from-a-mobile-app-in-real-time http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11878609/is-it-possible-t...