Transit App Blog
medium.com/@transitapp · Company blog · on HN since 2015
The team behind the Transit public transit app writes about map design, real-time data, scooters, and bringing the app to new cities.
What HN saysHN commenters link it for its posts on scooter aggregation and Nairobi matatus; no opinion on the blog itself appears in the comments.
18HN people shared it
3linked it in comments
29stories submitted
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Most-shared posts
- 1Maps Design: Apple vs. Google vs. Transit8 people · 38 points · first shared 2016 · 4 comments on HN
- 2Bringing Transit to Nairobi's Streets3 people · 46 points · first shared 2015 · 10 comments on HN
- 3Our car-free future will be blocked by Comcast tactics2 people · 22 points · first shared 2018 · 1 comments on HN
- 4Welcome to Scootopia: we now aggregate all electric scooters2 people · 1 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 5The Big 5.0: Transit app gets a makeover1 people · 65 points · first shared 2018 · 22 comments on HN
- 6How we’re bringing real-time countdowns to NYC’s lettered lines1 people · 10 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 7We built a robot to detect bad real-time data1 people · 10 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 8How we saved Baltimore $600,000 in one day1 people · 7 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 9Data viz: how many people do you recognize on public transit?1 people · 7 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 10Transit App now lets you compare Uber, Lyft, Via prices and ETAs1 people · 7 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 11DC's docked vs. dockless bikes: five months in1 people · 6 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 12Transit app hits 1M bikeshare trips1 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 1310 days. 2M people. 18M trips. How many transit riders recognized each other?1 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 14The media focused on the wrong thing during SXSW1 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 15Analysis of expected number of recurring encounters with strangers on transit1 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · 1 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
fluxic · 2016-01-05
As a writer who's made his living (more or less) via Medium over the past year, hopefully my experience can shed some insight.
The first blog post I wrote on Medium [0] got there by accident: I planned on publishing it on a popular local blog. While I'd used WordPress before, I didn't have a personal blog, so I wrote everything in Microsoft Word.
The piece contained a lot of images—so many that Word kept crashing. The deadline was approaching, so I decided to finish things in Medium and sent the link to my editor. (I probably could have used Google Docs, too.)
When it came time to publication—keep in mind, the editor and I hadn't signed any exclusivity agreements—the editor had not only published my piece with uninvited edits, but the image formating on their website was super unappealing. I decided that when promoting my piece, I'd link to my Medium version instead, since it looked better, didn't contain the edits, and the Medium.com URL carried no less weight than a URL from RandomMontrealPublication.com.
My hunch was correct. The Medium piece outperformed the piece on the "popular" Montreal blog I submitted to (it still did pretty well there, despite the editorial team not doing a great job of pushing it themselves). When local press began to pickup the story, all of the backlinks were going to the Medium version, rather than the RandomMTL version. One of the reasons it did so well on Medium was that it was selected as a Staff Pick (which put it in the newsfeeds for…
steadicat · 2018-05-23
Migo doesn’t seem to have Bird. Transit has all three: https://medium.com/@transitapp/welcome-to-scootopia-we-now-aggregate-a…
jlees · 2015-03-17
Reminds me of the Nairobi matatus, too: https://medium.com/@transitapp/hello-nairobi-cc27bb5a73b7