Seems like a thinly veiled ad for MagicBus, but I guess most blog posts are anyway.
Edit: Just to be clear, I'm not complaining about it, it's a good blog post, just making an observation.
Edit: Just to be clear, I'm not complaining about it, it's a good blog post, just making an observation.
For one, I get annoyed by T-mobile happy holidays text—but probably also because it's a canned text message.
The reason I mention this is because so many of these services are SF only, but hide that information. I understand you want to gather analytics from people entering addresses, but I don't want to waste my time doing so when the most likely answer is "no service now, no service in the near future, no service in adjacent areas ...". I get that my area isn't worth servicing now, but this also means I can't even consider the service when I am elsewhere or recommend it to anyone else, because service area information is wilfully withheld.
For example, we can mark SF, Palo Alto, and Menlo Park as in service area. It is not at all clear that we only run from SF to Palo Alto and SF to Menlo Park, but not Menlo Park to Palo Alto.
We've been thinking about using some animation to make it more explicit. But I'd love any idea from you.
Lastly, if you want to see a map, it's here: https://www.producthunt.com/tech/magicbus
"We currently serve parts of SF, Palo Alto and Menlo Park. Please see ... for a map and how we plan to expand our service."