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by jgrall 14y ago
We'll support other countries in the future once we've licensed the necessary international data to get good coverage in other countries. Sorry your family member wasn't able to grab it. We've thought about other ways to build on the app...
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by jgrall 14y ago
Lol yeah, we blew our bandwidth quota :) Service restored.
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by jgrall 14y ago
Thanks for the heads up.
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by jgrall 14y ago
Yeah no iPad support yet. For this app to work though you kind of need to have the device with you at all times to not miss the reminders to leave for the airport. For that reason, we thought iPhone was the way to go.
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by jgrall 14y ago
Yeah I should have clarified, it's in the US app store only for now. Licensing all the international data is quite a bit more expensive, so we wanted to test demand before doing that. We'll also translate the app in the future.
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by jgrall 14y ago
Our thoughts exactly.
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by jgrall 14y ago
Well we didn't want to do a simple scale-down, so some assets would have to be touched up, and other stuff would need to be remade. We're a small team so we did a cost/benefit and decided to focus on iPhone 4 and above.
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by jgrall 14y ago
I think there is a placeholder image but not all browsers handle the <video> tag the same way. Good point though.
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by jgrall 14y ago
We're using FlightAware's Flight XML api, among other data sources. Their API is pretty decent and their data is complete for US inbound/outbound and domestic flights. They are also really responsive on the forums to questions and feature r
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by jgrall 14y ago
Totally understand. If it's any comfort we put a lot of effort into making it reliable, including fallback services for push notifications and route information in case our data providers go down. We also play it safe and get you there with
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by jgrall 14y ago
We didn't support 3GS because creating 2X the artwork would have been a lot of work for a relatively small % of iPhone users that will soon be upgrading to retina. Consider your comment a +1 for 3GS.
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by jgrall 14y ago
Hopefully the mellow Garage Band loop on the website wasn't too offensive ;)
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by jgrall 14y ago
All US airports. It works internationally too (I recently tested it in Turkey) but we aren't advertising international airport support because our international data is incomplete. If there's enough demand we'll add global airport support i
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by jgrall 14y ago
Yeah totally, we were thinking of setting up a geo fence around the airport and automatically sending a text with their location or notifying the person being picked up that their ride has arrived.
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Just Landed for iPhone helps you pick someone up from the airport.(getjustlanded.com)
88 points by jgrall 14y ago|85 comments
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Day after leaving preview and hiking prices App Engine has 50 min outage.(code.google.com)
3 points by jgrall 15y ago|0 comments
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by jgrall 15y ago
An interesting example of a product that looks much nicer inside than out.
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SimplyListed (YC W11) Wants to Get the World Buying and Selling via Mobile(mashable.com)
39 points by jgrall 15y ago|13 comments
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by jgrall 16y ago
Like you're crazy at first. Once you push through the initial self-doubt and start building something that people want, it's one of the most energizing things you can do.
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by jgrall 16y ago
Great article. Thanks for sharing.