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

Re:Show HN: Ulaxi calculates whether UberX, Lyft, or Taxi is... by atom-morgan on Monday April 14, 2014 @01:59PM (#7587731)

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.

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Re:Show HN: Ulaxi calculates whether UberX, Lyft, or Taxi is... by xivzgrev on Monday April 14, 2014 @02:22PM (#7587872)

Thanks for feedback! It's pretty clear people don't like the alert window, so I'll remove that.

What I liked about the alert window is that it displayed results, on same page without needing to scroll, on a mobile device. Is there a way I could hide/unhide dev elements to make the inputs disappear and results appear in their place? Or what were you imagining?

I agree tiled is dated - I wanted to launch something rather quickly so this feedback is great to help prioritize what tweaks to make.

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Re:Show HN: Ulaxi calculates whether UberX, Lyft, or Taxi is... by atom-morgan on Monday April 14, 2014 @03:15PM (#7588170)

Absolutely. You may end up doing something else but you could definitely hide/unhide an element to show your results. Check this out as an example: http://jsfiddle.net/atommorgan/8Fjsq/

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Re:Show HN: Ulaxi calculates whether UberX, Lyft, or Taxi is... by xivzgrev on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @02:11AM (#7596355)

Exactly what I imagined - thanks for the link!

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Re:Show HN: Ulaxi calculates whether UberX, Lyft, or Taxi is... by xivzgrev on Monday April 14, 2014 @02:12PM (#7587809)

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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