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Ben Tossell
@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
LOVE Citymapper (when I'm in a city that has it) - always my go to.
I feel like I dont know if a bot for this use-case is the most efficient way. I loved the interaction of it but usually its just a few taps on my phone to get directions.
Would love to hear from someone using this regularly vs the app :)
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Marc Seitz
@mfts0 · CTO at @Hackerbay
I've got to side with @bentossell, I use Citymapper in Berlin, London and SF and would use it everywhere if possible. The bot seems very gimmicky and slower than opening the app and picking your locations.
Maybe they'll bring it to their apps. I still wonder what the right interface for bots is. Pressing a button is faster than writing text, what about spee… See more
jari
@jarizwarts · Frontend @ Oberon.nl
OK, sorry but how is this a bot?
It's just a normal step-based interface glued into some sort of fake conversational UI with buttons instead of real textual responses.
Laurent Desserrey
@ldesserrey · Design at Tribe, Snapchatters, Leak
Citymapper is the perfect example of a product that gets value from its UX/UI. It loses value if you remove the interface.
Andrew Mutavdzija
@andym_dc · JD/MA Candidate, AU Wash. College of Law
My only quibble with the app itself is I feel like I've saved a bunch of routes or commutes that are supposed to appear on my home screen, but then they only appear there sporadically, if at all. If somehow the bot could always remember precisely the same "usual" routes in the morning and at night, I'd find it helpful!