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Re: Just Landed

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Post by aklofas »

pg wrote: post #51
frisco wrote: post #15

This is the quintessential first world problem. Out of the range of problems facing society that you could solve, of all the ways you could create value by making peoples' lives better, you settled on "making airport pickup easy". Now, this is probably a completely rational move from the company's perspective. Silicon Valley over the last few years has been backstopped by acquihires and other such soft landings, and…

Are you sure you wouldn't say the same thing if it was 1975 and they'd made a Basic interpreter for a toy computer used by a few hobbyists? Big things often start small. In fact, usually start small. And in any case it's just mean of you to piss all over these guys' efforts. It makes me embarrassed for HN when people launch something new, and this is the sort of response they get.

There is a difference between building software for us (developers/hobbiests/etc) and building software for them (consumers). We will tinker, extend, reverse, tweak, hack and out will come something new for other people to build upon, possibly ground-shaking like the Basic interpreter. On the other hand, consumers will use it a few times, maybe click on an ad, and forget about it. I believe that frisco is lamenting the scopelessness of the project, which I do as well.

Re: Just Landed

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Post by jgrall »

jgrall wrote: post #56
bradleyjg wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've used it several times as well. Great app. The only time it didn't work so hot was on an international arrival. It didn't account for the time they spent going through customs, so I was waiting a while.

Thanks for using the app, and I'm sorry if we let you down on an international arrival. It happens - customs and baggage claim are both pretty unpredictable. As it turns out, we do try to factor additional time for international customs, but it's just an average since there's no real-time data available on customs wait times (which vary widely by airport, time of day, what passport the traveler has, and season). I al…

Startup idea: Waze for waiting in lines - insights into line length/wait times, when to join the line etc.

Potential applications: airports; theme parks; customs; popular restaurants; product launches; movie premieres.

Re: Just Landed

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Post by obviouslygreen »

frisco wrote: post #15

This is the quintessential first world problem. Out of the range of problems facing society that you could solve, of all the ways you could create value by making peoples' lives better, you settled on "making airport pickup easy". Now, this is probably a completely rational move from the company's perspective. Silicon Valley over the last few years has been backstopped by acquihires and other such soft landings, and…

"This is the quintessential first world problem."

Aside from being an overstatement, this is correct. And if anyone would think about it, that's something working in their favor. Unless you're one of those "profit is evil" people, when you're building a business with the intention of making money, you'll probably want to target a market that actually has disposable income.

Yep, it's very much a first world problem, but the negativity on that point is unwarranted. I doubt they started it with the intention of fixing society.

Re: Just Landed

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Post by tjbiddle »

jgrall wrote: post #52
frisco wrote: post #15

This is the quintessential first world problem. Out of the range of problems facing society that you could solve, of all the ways you could create value by making peoples' lives better, you settled on "making airport pickup easy". Now, this is probably a completely rational move from the company's perspective. Silicon Valley over the last few years has been backstopped by acquihires and other such soft landings, and…

Disclosure: I created Just Landed. Thanks for posting the app on HN! @frisco: I can understand how you lumped Just Landed in with other Silicon Valley startups some of whom are creating frivolous apps and raising vast sums of money against small ideas. I suppose those irritate me too for the same reasons you mentioned. However, in this case, you would be wrong to assume that Just Landed is just another overfunded sta…

If you don't mind me asking - What did you spend $15k on? For just a "fun side project" that sounds like an outrageous amount so spend, and I can't particularly think of what it would be spent on as I'm assuming flight information is public. Don't mean for this to sound judgmental - just genuinely curious as I must be missing something.

Re: Just Landed

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Post by jgrall »

mccolin wrote: post #58

The app looks beautiful, and solves a problem elegantly, but it's not a problem that I would pay any amount of money to solve better than a text message or airport/airline's flight tracker does. Even the 99¢ price tag seems like an overpay.

Thankfully lots of other people (limo and taxi drivers in particular) feel differently. Some ppl have actually stated that they would pay significantly more than the current price.

Re: Just Landed

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Post by jgrall »

tjbiddle wrote: post #84
jgrall wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disclosure: I created Just Landed. Thanks for posting the app on HN! @frisco: I can understand how you lumped Just Landed in with other Silicon Valley startups some of whom are creating frivolous apps and raising vast sums of money against small ideas. I suppose those irritate me too for the same reasons you mentioned. However, in this case, you would be wrong to assume that Just Landed is just another overfunded sta…

If you don't mind me asking - What did you spend $15k on? For just a "fun side project" that sounds like an outrageous amount so spend, and I can't particularly think of what it would be spent on as I'm assuming flight information is public. Don't mean for this to sound judgmental - just genuinely curious as I must be missing something.

As it turns out, accessing significant amounts of real-time flight data, as required by this app, is neither publicly accessible nor cheap (hence the need to charge for the app). There are also many other costs associated with developing even a small iPhone app to this level of quality.

I'm actually quite proud of myself for keeping the costs so low. Try asking some big companies what they spent on their apps - you might be in for a surprise (think huge numbers)!

Re: Just Landed

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Post by mccolin »

jgrall wrote: post #85
mccolin wrote: post #58

The app looks beautiful, and solves a problem elegantly, but it's not a problem that I would pay any amount of money to solve better than a text message or airport/airline's flight tracker does. Even the 99¢ price tag seems like an overpay.

Thankfully lots of other people (limo and taxi drivers in particular) feel differently. Some ppl have actually stated that they would pay significantly more than the current price.

Good to hear! I think anyone picking folks up from the airport with any regularity (including friends and spouses of business travelers) would definitely find it useful.

Re: Just Landed

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Post by kawsper »

jgrall wrote: post #80
somesay wrote: post #77

Your website sucks 30-35% of one of my CPU cores. Likely that's the parallax cloud effect since it's only happening when the tab is visible. You may optimize that.

Yes, I think you're correct. I didn't build the landing page, but perhaps I will optimize that. It's currently just shifting the various cloud layers using JQuery's animate() method. I imagine the main hit is layout & rendering, but that's just a preliminary guess. Specific ideas for improvements?

It is lagging a lot on a Retina macbook with i7 and 16 gigs of RAM. I suspect the problem might be with the Retina Macbooks.

I know that the animations is fancy, but are they really necessary?

Re: Just Landed

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Post by gfodor »

vowelless wrote: post #7

Isn't it a little short sighted to not have an android app? I get linked to the iTunes store on my phone. I also can't find it in the Play store.

No. Building an Android version requires a large amount of time and effort. It's a huge waste of time to build an version of an app for a second plantform that you have not already validated the market for on the first.

Re: Just Landed

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Post by gfodor »

frisco wrote: post #15

This is the quintessential first world problem. Out of the range of problems facing society that you could solve, of all the ways you could create value by making peoples' lives better, you settled on "making airport pickup easy". Now, this is probably a completely rational move from the company's perspective. Silicon Valley over the last few years has been backstopped by acquihires and other such soft landings, and…

You underestimate leverage. If this app takes off and shaves off 15 minutes of time for a million people a month, you are looking at 10k man-days of effort a month being saved. Not to mention the fuel thrown away by cars in "loop arounds."
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