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Maybe they'll finally have the resources to make a proper app. For context, they went web view -> react native, and both iterations were among the worst apps I've used on an Apple device. It's a shame that companies don't take pride in the UX they create, but I guess they were probably eng resource constrained.

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You're right on the money here. Scoot was undoubtedly the worst app I've used in recent years. I liked their scooters but their app had a laggy webview and all the images were squashed and in the wrong aspect ratio. I assumed this was a problem only on Android and that they were just a hipster head-in-the-sand company like Snap, but guess it was just crappy developers.

Apparently money can’t buy engineers.

I think the problem was not enough money for engineers, so they had to make a bunch of compromises.

How much does it cost to hire an engineer who can properly scale images?

it can't be too hard to find somebody on fiverr to do it for a cool $5.00

and how much did they raise?

IIRC, there was a giant ruby backend and a web app that were both deployed in unison - made for a super janky app experience when it would require you to refresh the mobile app if a deploy occurred whilst you were in the middle of booking a moped (which BTW, I still love riding)

i had no issues with the scoot app other than QR codes not working.

adding to the whishlist:

* allow people without US driver license to use them

* allow people to drive these in the evening

* have more of them (it's always hard to find one)

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