GoTime

A traffic alarm clock for your commute.

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A traffic alarm clock for your commute.

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Play DOTA2 for the ACLU!

Great idea, and if this truly does what it promises, it will absolutely be worth the $0.99/month subscription and I'd be more than willing to pay. But you need to get your user on-boarding story right. Right now, the entire value prop of the app consists of two screens: (1) please enable notifications; and (2) please pay us $0.99/month. You're really not giving me anything to convince me that I actually want to use the app. How about at least giving me a 1-month, or heck even a 1-week trial? You sell the app based on actual delivery of a promise, not by just a promise.

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11yr ago

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Maker

@imaznation Thanks Alex, appreciate the feedback. A free trial was definitely something we looked into, but there was some complications with in-app subscription purchases and an expiring window trial. As it stands now, it's really more akin to a .99-to-download-app, but we're thinking on how to make this feel better. (e.g. It's .99 to download and then you get hit with a subscription block after month one).

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11yr ago

Play DOTA2 for the ACLU!

@rourkery Maybe even just a simple swipe-thru of what the app does, what the various screens of the app look like, how to set it up, and what a sample notification feels like?

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11yr ago

Priime RAW

I built a script myself to do this exact thing a few years ago, but it's not as beautiful or elegant looking. Nice work! The $0.99 for "Checking traffic on your route constantly means we have to send hundreds of traffic requests per person/per day. We charge the smallest monthly fee we can to keep the requests firing." Seems a little weird. I get it, you need to make money as a company, but other than operations / overhead, is it really costing you something by constantly checking traffic? I'm asking quite honestly. I've found some sources (maybe not as good as yours) that have been basically free, but would love to hear how you guys are going about it out of curiosity. Good on you guys to build this useful tool! I'll try it out. My commutes are super flexible usually and my own scripts haven't looked this nice.

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11yr ago

SearchGPT Prototype

Maker

@art_chang Thanks! Actually, there is no real overhead to this... just kind of made it on the side because we wanted it to exist. But yes, we have to pay-per-request for access to Google Traffic API, which is why this isn't free!

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11yr ago

Priime RAW

@rourkery makes sense! Very cool.

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11yr ago

Kyber

Cool idea! Which service do you use to check traffic information after polling my location? Is the $0.99/mo going to be enough? That's why I'm asking - those services can become expensive fast.

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11yr ago

What traffic sources do you guys use? Google may not be available in all countries and at least where I am, Waze is the only reliable source. I have been needing this in my life for a long time.

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11yr ago

That's actually really smart. I know I'm always changing my alarm clock based on what I have to do in the morning. So yeah, unless you're a bot, that's promising (didn't use it yet)

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11yr ago

Interesting and smart idea!

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11yr ago

SuperNormal

Awesome job @rourkery, well designed and easy to use.

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11yr ago

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