Pigeon – Crowdsourced transit app for New Yorkers

Re:Pigeon – Crowdsourced transit app for New Yorkers by angott on Sunday June 30, 2019 @02:32AM (#20316706)

This looks a lot like Transit (transitapp.com), which also has a similar crowdsourcing feature. And I believe other apps like Citymapper and Moovit also rely on users’ reports. Does this app have anything new in particular?

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Re:Pigeon – Crowdsourced transit app for New Yorkers by joeatyl on Sunday June 30, 2019 @05:41AM (#20317292)

Area 120 is Google's in-house incubator. This seems like a veiled attempt to swallow competitor functionality into Google Maps...

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Re:Pigeon – Crowdsourced transit app for New Yorkers by bobthepanda on Sunday June 30, 2019 @12:31PM (#20318986)

I never quite understood this approach, since making applications more bloated with everything under the sun is a great way to encourage lightweight competitors to enter the space. See: word processors, Adobe Creative Suite, etc

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Re:Pigeon – Crowdsourced transit app for New Yorkers by xtiansimon on Monday July 01, 2019 @11:06AM (#20326006)

After TransitApp’s terrible redesign, I’m happy to see competition in this space.

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