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Re: Just Landed

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Post by tricolon »

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?

You'll want to use CSS transitions instead: http://css3.bradshawenterprises.com/blog/jquery-vs-css3-tran...

In addition, you may also want to try forcing hardware acceleration: http://davidwalsh.name/translate3d

Re: Just Landed

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Post by revorad »

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 HN holier-than-thou comment. 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 "pissing on someone's app".

Now, this is probably a completely rational move from your perspective. HN over the last few years has been backstopped by middlebrow-dismissals and other such poo-poo-ings, and bored programmers desperate to win karma are often very willing to waste hours crafting popular but mean comments. From your previous comments at least, it certainly doesn't look like you are just trolling. You're probably a very talented, capable person.

Since you seem to work at Transcriptic, I won't begrudge you your karma. However, I do lament the idea that the best minds of a generation are being focused on getting people to dismiss others' creations and directing all creative effort to what you deem to be "important problems". I don't buy the idea that you wouldn't be focused on a "better" use of your time if HN didn't exist; of course you would. This kind of talent is ambitious and gets things done. The idea that these are the types of comments that rise to the top is just a monumental lapse of discussion quality on HN. Scratching your own itch is an amazing thing, and we can do so much with it. I really think it's just an attitude issue -- people are used to dismissing new technology as frivolous, and mobile apps, in particular, seem totally pointless. How do we become less dismissive and more encouraging to makers?

how self-referential

Re: Just Landed

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Post by jpatte »

jgrall wrote: post #94
jpatte wrote: post #92

Am I the only one thinking there is something strange with the numbers in the screen capture ? the time is 4:42, the plane lands at 5:23, it's a 33 minutes drive... so you should leave in 8 minutes, not in 18 minutes.

It's correct. The numbers won't match your back-of-the-envelope calculations because it's a tad more involved than you're assuming. Among other factors, there's additional time for the plane to debark and for passengers to make it to baggage claim. You don't want to arrive at the airport just as the plane is landing. Plus, I'm not sure how Sean edited that video together when he did the screen capture. Props for noti…

That makes sense; however as a visitor of this page I don't know about all these details so I might think it's a possible error and I shouldn't trust your app. Basically there is a small risk to lose potential users here. I suggest choosing another example with a calculated vs intuitive time gap different from exactly 10 minutes.

Re: Just Landed

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Post by drcongo »

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…

Can I just say that this is beautifully designed.

Re: Just Landed

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Post by mikegreen »

cmccabe wrote: post #115
tjbiddle wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If you don't mind me asking - What did you spend $15k on? 15k isn't really that much. One month of his time is probably at least 10k, especially once you start thinking about health care and other benefits.

He said "$15k of my own money" not "$15k of my own time"

For many of us, side project time is enjoyable and not thought of as a cost center, but a happy-center.

:-)

Re: Just Landed

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Post by blakewatters »

bernardom wrote: post #79
jgrall wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Hey, I don't know whom you may be able to get to help, but I would bet that the government doesn't actually have great data on custom wait time- I've never seen them track someone from entry to pass-through. I strongly doubt they have that. Rather, I think you may have come upon a really cool opportunity- find a way to track it! You'll have data no one else on the planet has. It's like when Uber starts in a new city-…

We do this in GateGuru already. I think you are underestimating the scale needed to produce statistically significant models across airports (or even within one across checkpoints). MyTSA even has trouble with the crowd sourcing and they have TSA brand. It's a classic chicken and egg problem: nobody wants to use the app until its meaningful and it's not meaningful until you have huge numbers using the app.

Our approach in GateGuru is to bundle the security wait time functionality with other, highly engaging and free services (such as flight tracking, itinerary management, and our amenity database) in a completely FREE app and scale our way into it.

We are deep into it and its an ongoing part of our strategy, but its not clear to me how you could generalize this and build a business around it without an amazing solution to this fundamental problem.

Re: Just Landed

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Post by [deleted] »

pg wrote: post #106
adamgravitis wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the other hand, this issue reminds me of Peter Thiel's TedX talk, where he makes the argument that real technological invention may be slowing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOB7nezuQ7g I agree assisting people to reach the airport on-time may morph into a larger corporate vision, but I disagree it's likely to contribute to solving cancer, making better fuel, or reaching strong AI. ...And it's arguably a distract…

No initial product is likely to contribute to solving those problems, because most initial products don't lead to anything. Conversely, a startup that grows sufficiently big can contribute to the solution of almost any problem, including those you mention.

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Re: Just Landed

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Post by matb33 »

iloveyouocean wrote: post #111
pg wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Totally agree. When I first joined HN (2100+ days ago) there were posts nearly every day of the 'Show HN: My new startup/website/app/etc' type and the thoughtful feedback and comments were genuinely helpful and insightful. It wasn't uncommon for multiple people to actually take screenshots and rework design elements, provide thorough user interaction impressions and potential improvements, offer assistance in numerou…

Maybe it's a matter of adjusting some copy... "Show HN" was appropriate when HN consisted of its higher quality membership. You were showing your project to people who were more likely to provide better quality feedback.

Now that the population has grown, there are more commenters and more Show HNs, yet the presentation hasn't changed to accommodate this (same number of posts per page, same comment layout despite more comments, etc).

Maybe something like "Review HN"? Whatever it would be, it may be time to get more specific. Ultimately you're trying to filter out unhelpful comments. Those will always appear, but now there's just more of them in the same space...

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