Little background: I created this website since I found myself looking at Google Maps everyday before I left work. I would keep checking the travel time to home and waited till it dropped to 20-25 mins or so. I wished Google Maps had an option to manually set up an alert on the commute time but they didnt, so I decided to work on this side project on weekends. Got some motivation from friends and www.when2leave.com was created.
Future: I have received some good comments and feedback from different channels, I will try to implement some of those suggestion. Need to figure out a way to make this a self sustaining operation. If you have any ideas on that front, feel free to reach out.
Thanks to Ryan, Eric and others at ProductHunt for featuring this and a warm welcome to the community.
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Very good idea. There was an app called When2Leave on the App Store www.appsyte.com/when2leave but I don't think its working anymore.
Nice idea at the moment I get this type of thing on Google now as it looks at my calendar, however I would prefer to have a non google service. Benefit of what you offer is no need to have things in your calendar, great work :)
@chris_eade Thanks Chris, yes that was exactly the idea. Having a simple service that allows you to manually setup an alert on a certain commute time.
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Amazing product! I have been waiting for something like this. I hope the UI get's some upgrades, adds an app and also to get the opportunity to change traffic data source (Waze, Google Maps, Apple Maps, etc) and then adds the capability to call an Uber automatically.
PS. Don't tell anyone but I'd pay $1 a month for a service like that.
@shahab_21 Thanks Shahab, that is really very motivating for us :) We are working on creating an app and it should be out soon. Great idea about the automatic Uber calling (now, if only they paid us some commission for that ;) )
And we might add some premium features for a small price too :)
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Great idea! How does it alert? I image keep the tab open?
@tkuva Thank you! At the moment, yes, you need to keep the tab open. Some additions coming soon are SMS, email alert and mobile apps that would send a push notification (may be an apple watch notification too, if we get enough interest in that :) ) Stay tuned!
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