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by midnitewarrior 3264 days ago
Why didn't he switch to a crowd-sourced data model like GasBuddy?
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Was thinking the exact same thing. One possible reason would be wrong info, but you could use some sort of weighted algorithm that would need more than one submission to match and/or trust level per submitter based on historical correctness.
Exactly. Like what Yelp / Foursquare / Google Places use.
See my comment above - it would require a significant effort to get off the ground, as the app without data would not be useful to first users, and without the data provided by those first users, it wouldn't be useful to others.
They already had an app and users. They could have extended it with this functionality.
How do you get people to input the data in time for it to be useful?
Build a reward system… reputation might be enough?