FAQ
WHAT IS THIS APP
WHAT IS THIS APP
The app tries to solve the fundamental of car pooling i.e. suggesting people who stay near your route, and its upto to person who is offering ride and person taking the ride to communicate and plan the ride.
HOW DO I REGISTER
You authorise with Google and verify using the official email id.
WHY AUTHORISE VIA GOOGLE
Its a better user experience and we dont have build a seperate login module.And its more secure
WHAT DO YOU STORE FROM GOOGLE
Nothing!
CAN I BOOK A RIDE
You dont book a ride, You request for a ride.
WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BOOKING AND REQUESTING
Booking a ride: The app is responsible for all the things that happen
Request a ride: The scope of the app ends after the suggesting you the ride
WHY DONT YOU TAKE RESPONSIBILITY
Developers dont take any responsibility, Thats the universal truth!
WHY DOESNT THE APP ALLOCATE ME RIDE AUTOMATICALLY, WHY JUST SUGGEST
Developers dont own the car, Its upto the consent of the person who is offering the ride.
HOW DO I ENSURE MY FELLOW EMPLOYEE PICKS ME UP AT THE RIGHT TIME AND RIGHT PLACE
You can communicate well in advance and decide on the place and time, The app doesnt doesnt track the rider or the requestor
CAN I TRACK MY RIDE
No! We havent and we will not implement this feature
AS A PERSON OFFERING THE RIDE I WANT THE FUEL COSTS TO BE SHARED, HOW DOES THE APP ENSURE THIS
The app doesnt suggest what to pay and whom to pay.Every car has different fuel efficieny so we cant have fixed price and its not the problem we are trying to solve.
THIS APP IS NO WAY NEAR WHAT WE GET FROM OF MARKET CAR POOLING APPS, WHY IS IT SO
The fundamental problem in car pooling is knowing people who stay near my rotue/home,so we just focus on solving the fundamental
problem.
So we dont do tracking,payments, acceptance,rejection, Gender preference,Rating
etc etc. More features require more effort and thinking, more bandwidth =
more money, and we dont have any budget.
Other apps charge you money
and we wont.
SECURITY & PRIVACY
We think so, If you find any flaws please catch hold of the developers
SHOULD I GIVE MY EXACT HOME ADDRESS
No need, nearest landmark would do and whatever you give, we store the destination ~1km away (This was bug in implementation,but later promoted as a feature)
PERFORMANCE
The whole app is less than 500kb,We measure Time to be Interactive as our metric
On a Moto G (1st Gen) and on Slow 3G network these are the results
Page
load for the first time takes 3.3 Seconds
Subsequent load takes just
800 milliseconds
This is possible because of Service Workers!
TECHNOLOGY STACK
The app is built on Firebase.
Front End:
- HTML
- CSS
- JS
- Node.js
- JSON Blob (NOSQL)
- Travis CI
- NightwatchJS
NPM Modules:
- PurifyCSS: To remove unused CSS
- nodemailer: To send verification Token emails
- cors: middleware to enable CORS handling requests
- secure-compare:Constant-time comparison algorithm to prevent timing attacks for Node.js
- Lighthouse
- Page Speed Insights
- webpagetest.org
WHY FIREBASE, WHY NOT AZURE,AWS OR A MARKET STANDARD PLATFORM
Firebase is the Best! Need to know more ?! Mail to INPCJT
WHY A WEBSITE, WHY NOT A NATIVE APP
Browsers are very powerful these days, whatever native apps do, browsers can do it better and faster. You need native apps
if need is everyday,
Quick check How many apps do you use regularly and how many are just sitting
there on the phone?
Trust me you dont need native app Have a look at progressive web apps.
Native apps requires a different skill set which we dont have
HOW CAN YOU SAY, NATIVE APP IS NOT REQUIRED
From user perspective:Native App
- You go to playstore
- Search for the app
- Install the app (which will be more than 5mb)
- Then use the app
- The app consumes sufficient memory and battery
- The old version just sits on the phone
- You visit the URL
- Start using the App
- Add to HomeScreen if you need quick access!
FEEDBACK
We just accept bitcoins and currency in INR,For further details Mail to INPCJT
THIS APP IS STUPID, I DONT WANT USE IT, I DEMAND A BETTER APP
You are always free to develop the app and showcase, incase if its better we will replace our app with yours
I HAVE FOUND FEW BUGS IN THE APP, HOW CAN I REPORT IT? DO YOU GUYS RUN A BUG BOUNTY PROGRAMME?
We can always buy you a coffee from the Energy Hub, Mail the bug details to INPCJT
I HAVE A COOL IDEA, CAN YOU GUYS HELP ME IMPLEMENT
Yes, but not for Free! Mail the details to INPCJT
OTHERS
Please contact Facilities Team Or INPCJT
I WANT TO KNOW MORE HOW THIS APP WAS BUILT, IS THERE ANY DOCUMENTATION
Documentation is in progress!
Drop a mail to INPCJT, we would be more
than happy to help
I HAVE OTHER QUESTIONS
Mail to INPCJT
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