Ma3Route, do they make money or it's a hobby project?

AU5

Administrator
Staff member
I have always wondered if this service makes any money or it's just a hobby project run by a few people

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Sirius

New Lister
Even if they don't I'm sure they get a lot of VC finding. On their website they offer services to businesses in the transport sector. I think something to do with marketing.
 

AU5

Administrator
Staff member
Even if they don't I'm sure they get a lot of VC finding. On their website they offer services to businesses in the transport sector. I think something to do with marketing.

On traffic, there is google maps which has the same functionality plus API's.
the last time they updated their documentation was in 2015. Sounds to me like a hobby project than a business
 

shocks

Elder Lister
Do they have costs, coz. all I see its a twitter bot that retweets all tweets they are tagged. In my estimation whatever advert revenue they pull is profit
 

Bolo Yeung

Lister
Do they have costs, coz. all I see its a twitter bot that retweets all tweets they are tagged. In my estimation whatever advert revenue they pull is profit
it's not fully automated, they have to reply to some tweets and do some promotion like tagging ntsa and the authorities, giving tips so that they can seem useful, it's a nice model the only risk and greatest risk is that they have built their castle in someone elses sand box. If twitter decides to pull the rug they are done, also they don't have flexible access to the data that is generated, they have to use twitters apis for that.
 

AU5

Administrator
Staff member
it's not fully automated, they have to reply to some tweets and do some promotion like tagging ntsa and the authorities, giving tips so that they can seem useful, it's a nice model the only risk and greatest risk is that they have built their castle in someone elses sand box. If twitter decides to pull the rug they are done, also they don't have flexible access to the data that is generated, they have to use twitters apis for that.

with machine learning, you can automate some things
 
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