Your website is profoundly slick and aesthetically appealing.
Just Landed for iPhone helps you pick someone up from the airport.
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#62This is great - there have been a lot of times over the past few years I wish I had this app. One suggestion - is the travel time to the airport static or variable based on traffic? Here in SF, it can vary by a factor of 2X-3X, turning a 20 minute drive into an hour. You could get traffic data from Google or somewhere and cover that (if you don't.)
I would also like to know how well this would work with international flights, when picking up non-US citizens. I presume there's no way to know this, so one should still have to ballpark 30-60min buffer time for immigration.
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#63I love the idea and the design work! When I was younger, my father would pay me the equivalent of a taxi to get him to and from the airport. Driving slow laps around the SFO terminal, wondering if the plane is even on the ground yet, was definitely a big problem.
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#64I assume that you try to limit the number of queries to FlightAware in order to save yourselves money. So I wonder how many you make for a given flight. Obviously you make one when the user enters the flight number, but what about after that?
What if the plane has to circle? Would you be able to tell the user that the flight hadn't landed or is the landing time based solely on the initial FlightAware query?
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#65Your website is profoundly slick and aesthetically appealing.
Thank you! Glad you like it :)
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#66I just downloaded the app, and the designer made excellent design choices. There's an elegant balance of playfulness and utility, tasteful color scheme and font choices and a healthy amount of animated sizzle. Well done!
Thanks for the kind words, very much appreciated!
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#67Cool, now if it could do a lattitude like thing and let you know where on the sidewalk they were, that would be epic.
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.
You should also check out Glympse which is what I use for this kind of thing. It is sufficiently real time and accurate that the people I'm picking up surprise me at my car as I park. It also helps when you get unexpectedly delayed by traffic.
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#68automatic 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.
I don't want a clearer way to stop the audio, I want it to not start unless I ask for it. I honestly can't see any reason to have auto-playing audio on a web page unless that's the entire purpose of the page (audio or video player) or you're purposefully annoying people.
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#69automatic 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.
I don't know if there's speech (my audio is off), but I understood exactly what it did without audio.
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#70I tried adding my flight for tomorrow, Frontier 662 "F9 662", and I can't find any combination that lets it find that flight. Is the "9" in the airline abbreviation messing it up?