Haters Gonna Hate

Go duck yourself.

OK so you have created an amazing product.

I am just unsure what are you promoting here?

I eat lunch when I’m hungry, when I have time. The amount of money on my account has nothing to do with it.

I’m genuinely worried that you are promoting consumerism - “you have some money, why don’t you spend it”

How would you describe your experience with OFO bikes?

Hopeless

How likely are you to recommend OFO bikes to a friend?

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I tried two bikes this morning, ended up walking to the the Tube. Tried two bikes this evening on the way to climbing wall, ended up walking on the way. On the way home - another broken bike - and I’m waiting for a bus, drafting in notes what I have to say.

Five consecutive non working or hidden somewhere bikes. Even though I had a location shown on the map I could not find them at the location. Some ratio of breakdowns is inevitable, here it was clearly act of vandalism. How to stop it?

I was thinking about a camera that will also help locate the bike. You are able to see what the bike sees - much easier to locate. 360 degrees cameras are getting cheaper, bike is equipped with 3G already to communicate with the base.

Second issue are incentives. Individual is likely to hoard the bike close to their home. Rest of the people would prefer bikes to be parked at landmark locations, shops, junctions - easy to find. Pokemon Go was a large scale deployment of a game interfacing with real life. Partner with Google, get geospatial data of landmarks and points of interest - incentive users to drop the bike at a certain location.

From World of Warcraft - in game fatigue to incentivise players to stop playing - we know bonuses work better than penalties. Bonus for leaving bike in a place that is easy to find.

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Bus got me home. I described five instances of failure, here is another one... Lock removed, own chain instead.

There is already a network of bikes in London. London is a big city. In order to make it work you need to invest X amount of pounds. If you were to do this in a smaller city with no existing bike network it would be more profitable?

(currently my gut feeling is negative cashflow)

Exhibit 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teZA64_DzpE

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofo_(company)

A Series D funding round in February 2017, led by Didi Chuxing and Russian investor Digital Sky Technologies, raised $450 million for ofo and valued the company at $1 billion.

Yeah: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/spike-in-people-stealing-ofo-bikes-and-spray-painting-them-a3936261.html

Cost-benefit.

Risk-reward.

It’s better to preserve a tweet and allow user to delete it manually?

I type `franz` - surely I want to run installer again rather than run the app I’ve installed yesterday? WHAT THE F••K APPLE? I’ve ordered iPhoneX and I’m horrified by user experience - https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/306757/what-is-the-fastest-way-to-unlock-iphone-x-to-the-homescreen-rather-than-doubl - I’ve replaced with iPhone8+ and I’m utterly disappointed.

(the root “hack” is beyond measure, millions of devices vulnerable) EDIT: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/08/12/wave2wake/ - beyond ridiculous, why Apple usability is so broken?

...they are doing usability and user experience exceptionally well.  I do not enjoy Chrome autofill settings:

* nationality is of the type country

* country of residence is of the type country too Do not autofill, have some clever mechanism to differentiate these too, otherwise it only adds work.

Dear PayPal... That is outrageously disgraceful. Theft by default... F-bomb you! Automatic conversion using shameful rates rather than allowing to keep balance in USD by default. I’m not letting go - Hacker News and Reddit please. Image 1 - I managed to figure it out eventually.