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Just Landed for iPhone helps you pick someone up from the airport.

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Re: Just Landed for iPhone helps you pick someone up from the airport.

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Post by r00fus »

jgrall wrote: post #4
ChuckMcM wrote: post #2

Cool, 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.

Geo-fencing (at least on my 4S using location-based reminders a la Siri) was an intense battery drain. As cool as it is, I don't use it often for that reason.

Not sure if things have changed since launch, but keep that in mind - if you do implement, maybe make it easy to turn it on/off?

Re: Just Landed for iPhone helps you pick someone up from the airport.

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Post by jgrall »

psadauskas wrote: post #70

I 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?

We just added support for 1000 additional airline codes. Some of the two digits codes were not supported by our data provider because they conflict with airlines in other countries. Anyway this is resolved now, you should be able to find Frontier flights.

Re: Just Landed for iPhone helps you pick someone up from the airport.

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Post by jgrall »

pivo wrote: post #64

I 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?

We know about updates to the flight if it gets delayed and has to circle, and yes we do additional queries to FlightAware on the user's behalf even if the app is closed. We spent a lot of time getting this right, as well as building a good caching system to improve performance and save money. Incoming flight alerts (delays, cancellations etc.) invalidate the cache for the affected flights.

Re: Just Landed for iPhone helps you pick someone up from the airport.

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Post by jgrall »

RobMcCullough wrote: post #63

I 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.

Glad to hear we found a problem that matters to you :)

Re: Just Landed for iPhone helps you pick someone up from the airport.

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Post by [deleted] »

jgrall wrote: post #38
antr wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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Re: Just Landed for iPhone helps you pick someone up from the airport.

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Post by dmoy »

duiker101 wrote: post #9

automatic 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.

cannot upvote this hard enough

Opened a bunch of links on a slow connection, suddenly some moments later one is playing audio! Even with javascript disabled :(

Does anyone remember that chrome extension that found which tab out of 100 is playing audio? Was it MuteTab?

Re: Just Landed for iPhone helps you pick someone up from the airport.

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Post by partlysean »

duiker101 wrote: post #9

automatic 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.

Okay, we hear ya. Pushing an update of the video sans music in a little bit.

Re: Just Landed for iPhone helps you pick someone up from the airport.

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Post by degenerate »

partlysean wrote: post #28
PhrosTT wrote: post #10

How did you make that awesome demo? Is that just js + 100 hours of labor or what?

Glad you like it! To record the footage, I used the app Reflection (reflectionapp.com) to AirPlay my iPhone's screen to my MacBook Pro. Everything was edited using Final Cut Pro X. The trickiest part was the status bar. When you AirPlay an iOS device, the status bar changes to a blue color, and I just wouldn't have it. I made a custom black status bar in Photoshop and keyframed the crap out of it to cover the blue on…

Very cool! It looks like your CSS is still referencing one of the old, skewed screenshots: http://www.getjustlanded.com/static/images/homepage/app_scre...

Re: Just Landed for iPhone helps you pick someone up from the airport.

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Post by partlysean »

degenerate wrote: post #79
partlysean wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Glad you like it! To record the footage, I used the app Reflection (reflectionapp.com) to AirPlay my iPhone's screen to my MacBook Pro. Everything was edited using Final Cut Pro X. The trickiest part was the status bar. When you AirPlay an iOS device, the status bar changes to a blue color, and I just wouldn't have it. I made a custom black status bar in Photoshop and keyframed the crap out of it to cover the blue on…

Very cool! It looks like your CSS is still referencing one of the old, skewed screenshots: http://www.getjustlanded.com/static/images/homepage/app_scre...

Oh snap! Nice catch there. I'll have to push an update. Thanks!
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