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Review my app: For you NYC Hackers/Subway Riders

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Re: Review my app: For you NYC Hackers/Subway Riders

#31
post #29

I like the idea, although honestly not that useful for me given that the exits I care about I already know. You've got a decent start on an offline subway map though -- I'd pay for a good one of those.

MTA.info offers a downloadable PDF. Also, if I recall correctly from my jailbroken iPhone days there was a very good offline NYC Subway Maps app.

Re: Review my app: For you NYC Hackers/Subway Riders

#32
That's just nice… I've had the same strategy, and obviously I know the station exits of my commute perfectly… :)

But it makes it all the more annoying to go to some station I don't know, so I think it's just awesome!

But as it is right now, I won't buy it. Simply because I'm talking about the Parisian metro… So tell me, do you plan on supporting more subway systems in the future? How do you plan to gather the data? Tell me if I can be of any help.

Re: Review my app: For you NYC Hackers/Subway Riders

#37
post #16

It's nice how you released it for a lot of different platforms. Would you mind sharing the % of sales / platform once you have some sales?

I'd also be very interested in hearing about how easy/hard it was to develop for all of these platforms. Were you able to share any code or resources? How long did each one take? How easy/hard was the process of getting them on their respective markets?

Re: Review my app: For you NYC Hackers/Subway Riders

#38
awesome app - even though i dont live in nyc, i've visited nyc often & i can definitely see how useful it could be to a daily commuter.

ohh - and you get double brownie points for the name 'exitstrategy' - gels so well with what your app does..i bet nyt will come calling for a writeup soon - so stay prepped :)

Re: Review my app: For you NYC Hackers/Subway Riders

#40

Nice. This is application equivalent of a comedian "saying what everyone is thinking". When I lived in Tokyo, I always tried to do these kinds of mental calculations on the train on unfamiliar lines (already 100% optimized by daily commute).

Yep, I've lived in both Manhattan and Tokyo, and one of my first thoughts is that Tokyo is the other market that needs this. Is the code portable enough to subcontract development of the Tokyo version to native Tokyo-ites? I'm sure there are several other metro regions that would love this, too.

But I'm sure you will have your hands full just keeping up with the NYC version, for now.

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