[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":383},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-6322875":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":5,"maker":10,"posted_at":11,"year":12,"points":13,"comments":14,"rank_in_year":15,"shown_in_year":16,"top":17,"tier":18,"category":19,"subcategory":20,"format":21,"keywords":22,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":35,"aspects":36,"strip":45,"post_text":47,"what":48,"said":72,"maker_in_thread":196,"shape":207,"grid":211,"attempts":341,"same_week":346,"maker_shows":46,"maker_hidden":375,"reader_version":376,"card":377},"6322875","road.li","Find the fastest route via a place","title","Show HN: Find the fastest route via a place","http:\u002F\u002Froad.li","FriedPickles",1378234043,2013,88,52,271,1739,16,"notable","dev_tools","route planning","web_app",[23,24,25,26,27],"route planner","road trip","waypoints","via stops","driving directions","mixed",0.175,{"positive":31,"neutral":32,"mixed":33,"critical":34},11,17,4,3,35,{"design":37,"idea":39,"docs":41,"execution":42,"performance":43},{"positive":38,"critical":38},0,{"positive":31,"critical":40},2,{"positive":38,"critical":38},{"positive":38,"critical":38},{"positive":38,"critical":44},1,[34,34,38,46,34,34,34,38,38,34,34,34,38,44,34,46,34,34,46,38,38,38,46,46,38,38,34,34,44,34,46,46,34,46,34,34,34,38,38,46],5,null,{"problem":49,"audience":61,"pricing":47,"motivation":47,"time_to_build":47,"stack":69,"openness":70,"stage":71,"team_size":70},{"value":50,"source":51,"evidence":52},"Finding a stop like a coffee shop or gas station along a driving route without detours","commenter",[53,57],{"id":54,"by":55,"text":56},"6323257","thesash","This is super cool! I can't tell you how many times I've been driving between LA and San Diego or LA and San Francisco, and just wanted to find a coffee shop, edible food, or…",{"id":58,"by":59,"text":60},"6323912","zackbloom","With this app, B is a category (\"hardware store\" or \"bank\"), rather than a specific location. That's the innovation.",{"value":62,"source":51,"evidence":63},"Road trip drivers",[64,65],{"id":54,"by":55,"text":56},{"id":66,"by":67,"text":68},"6323520","rwhitman","This is brilliant. Just such a useful idea. But I would say that this should have been 'mobile first', and would strongly suggest expending effort on mobile experience. This is…",[],"unknown","launched",{"praise":73,"objections":87,"requests":119,"questions":158,"alternatives":173},[74],{"value":75,"source":51,"evidence":76},"Useful idea for finding stops along a route",[77,78,79,83],{"id":66,"by":67,"text":68},{"id":54,"by":55,"text":56},{"id":80,"by":81,"text":82},"6325039","avalaunch","I love this. Make it an app please! I've downloaded multiple apps thinking they'd include this feature and none have. Very useful.",{"id":84,"by":85,"text":86},"6326203","awongh","this is great, I was thinking of building something similar, but it didn't seem like the route finding APIs were there at the time. It seems to side step a lot of the problems…",[88,93,104],{"value":89,"source":51,"evidence":90},"Hard to use on mobile phones",[91,92],{"id":66,"by":67,"text":68},{"id":54,"by":55,"text":56},{"value":94,"source":51,"evidence":95},"Search returns irrelevant results for multi-word chain names",[96,100],{"id":97,"by":98,"text":99},"6323212","johnnyo","Great idea. I often like to find something \"along the way\", especially for long road trips. Just a datapoint, trying to find a Boston Market along my route gave me lots of…",{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},"6323991","dmckeon","OP may want to partner with lodging sites - road-weary travelers may not know where they will want to spend the night until late in the day, and the less expensive motel choices…",{"value":105,"source":51,"evidence":106},"Page becomes unresponsive while typing",[107,111,115],{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"6325016","thisisnotatest","Feedback: I clicked on the suggestion \"Boston to Providence via McDonalds.\" Then I decided to try entering the information I wished I'd had on my Labor Day road trip: where was…",{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"6325243","aptwebapps","Likewise. I did a search in one country, started a new one in a new country and it's still locked up. Couldn't even close the tab. (Chrome, OSX). Really neat app, though!",{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"6324398","peter_l_downs","Needs some debouncing! Other than that, it's awesome.",[120,129,144,151],{"value":121,"source":51,"evidence":122},"Mobile-friendly layout",[123,124,128],{"id":66,"by":67,"text":68},{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"6323918","wbobeirne","Agreed, or at least a breakpoint at ~720 that makes it stack vertically (i.e. http:\u002F\u002Fcl.ly\u002Fimage\u002F0m30232n1N1A)",{"id":54,"by":55,"text":56},{"value":130,"source":51,"evidence":131},"Multiple stops or several competing places",[132,136,140],{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"6325450","joshdotsmith","Awesome work on this. Another idea for you: I'd like to put in multiple competing places to see which is optimal. Should I go to Wendy's or Burger King on the way?",{"id":137,"by":138,"text":139},"6325538","proexploit","Similarly, I often have errands to run and 4-5 locations and it's not immediately obvious which route and order I should go to each of them.",{"id":141,"by":142,"text":143},"6323699","uptown","It's still baffling to me that they got rid of multiple-stage trip routing. Sure, you can drag the route to add waypoints - but it's nowhere near as precise as providing an…",{"value":145,"source":51,"evidence":146},"Shareable URLs that update with the route",[147],{"id":148,"by":149,"text":150},"6325683","prawn","Maybe also have URLs update automatically for copying and pasting? At the moment, it stays as http:\u002F\u002Froad.li\u002F Allowing people to share URLs might increase adoption of the site.…",{"value":152,"source":51,"evidence":153},"Show the chosen route directly in Google Maps",[154],{"id":155,"by":156,"text":157},"6323177","excitom","How about when you click one of the suggestions, go ahead and open the route in google maps.",[159,166],{"value":160,"source":51,"evidence":161},"What data set is used, such as OpenStreetMap",[162],{"id":163,"by":164,"text":165},"6325763","mooneater","Awesome! Does this use openstreetmap data, or what data set?",{"value":167,"source":51,"evidence":168},"Can the route be extracted into directions",[169],{"id":170,"by":171,"text":172},"6323087","outericky","This is quite neat. Any way to extract the directions once I decide which way point I want to go through?",[174,189],{"value":175,"source":51,"evidence":176},"Google Maps multiple destinations and drag-to-route",[177,181,185],{"id":178,"by":179,"text":180},"6323202","aaronpk","If you're using Google Maps and are looking at a route from A to B, you can click any point on the path and drag it to anywhere on the map, and the route will update to pass…",{"id":182,"by":183,"text":184},"6323229","n00j","The classic google maps lets you do this with any number of points. Just the new maps removed this feature:…",{"id":186,"by":187,"text":188},"6325296","smokestack","maps.google.com does this exactly with a few extra clicks: Click \"Get directions\" button, click the \"Add Destination\" link, fill in A, B, and C then click the \"Did you mean a…",{"value":190,"source":51,"evidence":191},"Garmin GPS route search",[192],{"id":193,"by":194,"text":195},"6323274","sardonicbryan","This is one feature that I miss from my Garmin GPS -- ability to set a route, and then search for locations or types of locations along the route.",{"comments":34,"answered":40,"key":197},[198,201,204],{"id":199,"text":200},"6323950","That looks great, thanks. I'll try to make this happen soon.",{"id":202,"text":203},"6323259","The difference here is Google requires you to give a specific location (e.g., an \"instance\" of McDonalds), whereas my tool helps you decide which location to stop at when there…",{"id":205,"text":206},"6323116","Thanks! 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