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Show HN: Ulaxi calculates whether UberX, Lyft, or Taxi is best for your trip

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Re: Show HN: Ulaxi calculates whether UberX, Lyft, or Taxi is best for your trip

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Post by atom-morgan »

Great work. It does exactly what it says it does and helped me validate the choice I made a few weeks ago. I picked Uber and according to your app, it's the cheapest option for that route. Going forward, I'll probably use this. As for feedback.

First, I'd kill the alert message. You show the pricing by company anyways. Maybe highlight the cheapest option but I wouldn't use an alert window for it.

Second, I'd make changes to the background image. There's nothing wrong with the image at all, it's just that a tiled background like that seems a little dated to me.

Anything more than this feedback and I'd feel like I'm completely changing your design, not helping to improve it.

Re: Show HN: Ulaxi calculates whether UberX, Lyft, or Taxi is best for your trip

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Post by nlh »

Thanks for sharing -- happy to offer some "instant feedback":

* Alert windows are jarring. My first instinct when I saw it was "ok, thanks for telling me who to take, but why are you telling me this in a vacuum?" -- and THEN I saw that you give a comparison. I'd skip the alert window entirely -- just show the list and at the top (or highlight, etc.) show the winner.

* It would be SUPER cool if you could calculate whether Surge Pricing / Happy Hour is in effect so the user doesn't have to manually make the choice in the drop-down. No idea if that's possible but the less work you have to make the user do, the better.

I'll keep playing around and edit with more thoughts...

Re: Show HN: Ulaxi calculates whether UberX, Lyft, or Taxi is best for your trip

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Post by xivzgrev »

atom-morgan wrote: post #3

Great work. It does exactly what it says it does and helped me validate the choice I made a few weeks ago. I picked Uber and according to your app, it's the cheapest option for that route. Going forward, I'll probably use this. As for feedback. First, I'd kill the alert message. You show the pricing by company anyways. Maybe highlight the cheapest option but I wouldn't use an alert window for it. Second, I'd make cha…

Thanks for the feedback, and glad to hear you'd like to use it!

Looks like the server crashed tho :( - may need to find better hosting option.

Re: Show HN: Ulaxi calculates whether UberX, Lyft, or Taxi is best for your trip

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Post by xivzgrev »

sfkaos wrote: post #4

I was wishing for something like this just this weekend. I do my own search through each of the apps every time I look for a ride. You should think about turning this into an app.

Thanks for the feedback, and glad to hear you'd like to use it!

I like the idea of turning into an app. That has its own learning curve, so I did web app to test idea first.

Re: Show HN: Ulaxi calculates whether UberX, Lyft, or Taxi is best for your trip

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Post by [deleted] »

xivzgrev wrote: post #7
atom-morgan wrote: post #3

Great work. It does exactly what it says it does and helped me validate the choice I made a few weeks ago. I picked Uber and according to your app, it's the cheapest option for that route. Going forward, I'll probably use this. As for feedback. First, I'd kill the alert message. You show the pricing by company anyways. Maybe highlight the cheapest option but I wouldn't use an alert window for it. Second, I'd make cha…

Thanks for the feedback, and glad to hear you'd like to use it! Looks like the server crashed tho :( - may need to find better hosting option.

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Re: Show HN: Ulaxi calculates whether UberX, Lyft, or Taxi is best for your trip

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Post by xivzgrev »

matiasb wrote: post #6

CPU Limit Reached You are seeing this page because website has reached CPU usage limit of the server, and it was temporarily disabled.

Dang! Well now I know the limits of that free service, which apparently is not that much.

I'd be willing to pay for a more stable host - do you have any recommendations?

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