u/Ambitious_Grape9908

I'm the developer for London Bus Pal and I'm looking for feedback

I'm the developer for London Bus Pal and I'm looking for feedback

It's taking me many years to do this - I'm the solo developer for London Bus Pal and last month, I expanded the reach to all transport modes (so I'm in this weird situation where the app names says it's a bus app, but it actually covers all transport modes...I'm slowly fixing that, but it's difficult to get away from a name that has been around for 13 years!!).

Having lived in various parts of the capital, I've got a handle of how a transport app might help you (for example, when I was living near Norbiton station, you know the platform you need, but just need to be reminded of the train time; at East Croydon, you want to see platform information). If you are near Morden tube station, seeing the arrivals information is completely pointless and you want to see departures instead.

I spent a lot of time trying to tweak specific scenarios (and it's by no means perfect - for example, I don't know how to get only tram departures to show up like I am doing for the tube; I may have missed some terminus stations where departures are more important and so on).

It's a HUGE endeavour for a single-person operation like myself, but I'm proud of what I've done.

My difficulty is that I don't know all of the permutations and combinations (I happened to go to Ikea in Wembley the other day and realised that I needed to do something about stations where the overground and underground share tracks). I need more eyes to help so that I can make it better.

Care to take a look? https://buspal.app/blog/london-bus-pal-now-does-tube-tram-rail-and-more-heres-what-it-took/

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mulder.buspal

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/london-bus-pal/id1447045946

(I hate posts where people are disguising marketing as something else, this isn't it - I'm genuinely looking for feedback to find all the possible combinations and permutations I haven't thought of!! But of course, if this introduces you to a new app, or re-engages you, so be it. It's honestly not the intention of this post.)

u/Ambitious_Grape9908 — 4 days ago
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Everyone is always obsessing about maximising eCPM

High eCPM does not always translate into high earnings. Just saying.

u/Ambitious_Grape9908 — 9 days ago

Every now and again, I see frustrated developers post on here about what to do about bad or unfair reviews. I bring some proof that the best thing you can do is to respond - always respond to reviews.

Below is a screenshot from my Play account - you can see that 62% of people who left bad reviews actually increased their ratings after I responded to them (I'm assuming this is what it is as the vast majority of my reviews are actually 5 stars). Equally, for reviews that I didn't respond to, 7% of people actually decreased their ratings!

So - if you're not sure what to do with bad reviews - just respond. It is definitely better than doing nothing.

https://preview.redd.it/iq9zbi8ej9zg1.png?width=1390&format=png&auto=webp&s=efdf02981dd0b8c775727861e3a97cfa12051161

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u/Ambitious_Grape9908 — 9 days ago