Thread: www.tripmi.ie - carpooling in ireland

I have been working on this site intensively for over 3 months and it is now in its final phase before full public release, finally. Having worked on it so intensively I can't see the wood from the trees any more.

If any of you good people could spare a few minutes to look around, maybe register and play around with it a bit any feedback you would have would be hugely appreciated. Particularly since your opinions I would more highly rate at this point than Joe average users comment.

Many thanks in advance.

www.tripmi.ie - Get there together

Not a bad idea. Hope it works for you...

Hi,
Thats a great idea for a website, I often thought about such a solution, but don't think i'd have the programming skills to pull it off.

The functionality seems fine to me, I registered and entered my very own journey route, I also made an error with the traveling times and it picked up on it right away.

Only problem I see with it is, its still new, and needs more publicity...

Google maps is well integrated, how does it work may I ask?

Unreal!

I think you're onto a winner with that one. Its the type of idea that the media would latch onto as well!

You should contact the likes of AA Roadwatch to gauge their opinion on it..

It's a great idea and the site looks very good. Try building a tool like a saving calculator something to "go viral". Hopefully many will use the site.

Clean the code a little bit, the h1 is not the best, I would turn the h3 into h1. The title is too long and the carpool in not really focused.

I like the idea. It would be good to get it listed on some green groups' sites, for the carbon saving angle.

I'm not a fan of making people sign up before being able to see it. I'd rather be able to look to see if there's a lift that suits me, then register if there is. I think many people will click away without checking.

Good luck with it, Stan

Interesting project. Seen something like that before in US. I am not one of your target group members, but honestly you need to spam some press with information about it as promotion is more important at this stage than anything else.

Simple and eye-appealing. You have a winner with this one. A 9.5 on a scale of 1 - 10!

I decided not to carpool until you invent a car that treads the oceans but many will jump on this. Exposure, exposure, exposure. Stick with it!

There is already a group doing a site like this for car pooling, they have been interviewed in a number of newspapers and radio stations.

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But good luck with it though!!

First impression - the logo is way too small, so I'm likely to forget the site's name

Link the logo back to the main page - makes life easier for lazy people like me that don't want to look for a "home" link

Some of the text is quite hard to read:

tripmi - Get there together | Find and create carpools for your trips, events and business - that page is very important, but it's like a "sea of text" at the moment. If you broke it up a bit more and used slightly better contrast and spacing it would be a lot easier on the eye

tripmi - Get there together | Find and create carpools for your trips, events and business - you might want to get them checked. You can disclaim responsibility for what people post until the cows come home, but under Irish and EU law you'd still be seen as the publisher and would still be held responsible (ie. I'm the one getting the takedown notices for anything people take offence to on this site not the actual poster who remains almost anonymous)

tripmi - Get there together | Find and create carpools for your trips, events and business - hard to read. I'd also wonder if it is 100% compliant with Irish law. The IIA produced sample privacy statements that are compliant - I'd recommend looking at one of those.