Re:Ask HN: I use my own product, but others don't. Why?
by faisalkhalid80 on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @07:59AM
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thank you for the feedback. yep it's only for London right now..
Re:Ask HN: I use my own product, but others don't. Why?
by ColinWright on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @08:08AM
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I feel like I'm being unnecessarily harsh. I'm on a desktop, the design seems clear and clean. When I ask for an area I get a tiny cluster of flags that I then need to zoom in on, but I guess that would be easier on a mobile, just pinch/zoom. If I hover over a flag I get the details, but when I move to click on one of the links, they disappear, so I can't actually access the details. I can't phone to make a reservation, or check on the Google search results.
Those are my immediate usability comments.
Edit: These are of necessity "drive-by comments," neither crafted nor gestated. I'm in the middle of other stuff, and had some immediate thoughts. Take them as intended to be overall helpful. And now I need to go.
Re:Ask HN: I use my own product, but others don't. Why?
by faisalkhalid80 on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @08:15AM
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thank you.
Why would I learn to use yet another tool? You already use it, you already know how to use it, but I would have to invest effort in learning its quirks.
Seems only to be focused on London, UK. Is this right? Didn't work on three of the other major UK cities I tried, which makes it useless for me.
How would I find out about it? What does it offer that I can't get from Google or FourSquare?
Why should I invest the time and effort, with the risk that in a week or two it will disappear?