Looks great, I can't seem to get it in my country though (I guess apple thinks I live in the Netherlands), is this US only?
Just Landed for iPhone helps you pick someone up from the airport.
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#32This could be very useful, but it doesn't install on a 3GS because it requires a gyroscope? Seems a curious requirement given the functionality.
it doesn't work with the iPad (3) either...
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#33fyi: got prompted with DivX plugin wants to run -- big black video box skewed off to the side of the phone looking out of place...clicked to allow it to run, chrome becomes unresponsive and crashes. granted that may be the divx plugin problem, but it seems easier to host the video in something like youtube or vimeo and embed it if you must use video.
Same here. This is what I see: https://skitch.com/sachitgupta/89nhj/just-landed-making-airp...
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
I also have a 3GS and I find this response a little baffling. It can't be that much work for you to produce non-retina artwork, can it?
iOS app dev these days is all about increasing what I like to term the ARPH (average revenue per hour), a function of the revenue generated per hour spent working on the app. The best strategy IMHO is to get something out there ASAP, validate the market, and then expand if the data suggests a viable product that people will pay for.
Our thoughts exactly.
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#35fyi: got prompted with DivX plugin wants to run -- big black video box skewed off to the side of the phone looking out of place...clicked to allow it to run, chrome becomes unresponsive and crashes. granted that may be the divx plugin problem, but it seems easier to host the video in something like youtube or vimeo and embed it if you must use video.
Same here. I don't understand why anyone would use a video player other than youtube or vimeo for this type of thing
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#36Looks great, I can't seem to get it in my country though (I guess apple thinks I live in the Netherlands), is this US only?
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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#37automatic music, no stop or volume button immediatly in line of sight, closed. I am sorry from that glance i gave it looked good but the music totally killed it for me.
Valid points. FWIW, you can click anywhere on the iPhone to pause the video (and music, for that matter). We should probably make this clearer.
You should probably not automatically play audio. Or, if you must have audio, don't automatically play the video.
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#38This could be very useful, but it doesn't install on a 3GS because it requires a gyroscope? Seems a curious requirement given the functionality.
it doesn't work with the iPad (3) either...
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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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hopefully the mellow Garage Band loop on the website wasn't too offensive ;)
Not offensive, but annoying when you have multiple tabs open and you don't know which one the music is coming from ;)
I had the same problem. I opened up multiple stories from Hacker News and had to click through each of the tabs find out where the music was coming from. Perhaps you could use some sort of javascript mouse event to detect actual user interaction with the opened tab before you start playing the music loop, and yes please make it clearer in your UI on how I can make it stop.
Overall, pretty cool concept/app.
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#40I'm not a fan of the music playing automatically. The app looks great though!
Hopefully the mellow Garage Band loop on the website wasn't too offensive ;)
No, but your page still makes me play "hunt the noisy tab", and then, if I decide I want to watch the video, requires me to pause my own music to listen to your loop.
I don't object to all audio. Click-to-play and relevant? Great! But auto-playing, un-mutable, and completely unrelated is a terrible combination.