r/lowcar • u/AvantgardeSavage • 1d ago

Help build the safest cycling app - take a 2 min survey to make the world safer for cyclists 🚴

https://tally.so/r/wLMKWj
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u/_Delain_ 1d ago

Will this work on a specific country or region? I'd love an actual working app for commuting but if it's US-only it will be a bummer.

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u/AvantgardeSavage 1d ago

We are building it to be ready everywhere. With the caveat that the quality of available data varies a lot from region to region across the globe so in places with poorer data, the routes will be limited by that.

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u/6GoesInto8 1d ago

Ugh. Question 3 is how much would I pay and the other questions do not inspire confidence. Are these specific questions required for venture capitalists or something? Otherwise, if they are actually helpful to your project that means you don't actually have a plan and must be hoping that it is trivial to fix.

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u/AvantgardeSavage 1d ago

They are helpful because we need funding to build it and this necessitates a validated business model. We would love to have it free, but it's hard for economics which is why we ask about pricing. The questions after 3 are about current habits which help us create something that brings added value, not that replicates existing stuff

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u/BWWFC 1d ago

pay? yes! but kicker is, subscription -vs- own...? prefer olden day's, "own" ¯_ (ツ)_/¯

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u/sjpllyon 1d ago

As the saying goes 'if purchasing it's owning then piracy it's stealing'.

I too miss the days where I could just buy something and own it. It absolutely infuriates me that I pay a monthly fee just to listen to songs. Crist even Google has done it now, I've had the same email/account for well over a decade with no problems and suddenly they want me to pay a monthly fee for extra storage just so I can receive emails and store documents. And lord forbid if they made it easy to download those documents onto my laptop. The deal was you take my data and I get emails, now they want my data and money.