It's cool that YC has produced enough services to allow you to do this sort of thing.

One thing that I found interesting were the gaps in the trip. The most economically "important" pieces were skipped over. Things like the airline service, fuel consumption, and potentially more innovative ground transportation. The companies that made products and services that "actually" got you to Mountain View and back.

It will be interesting to see if YC can produce companies that start to close these gaps.

Definitely true. It's pretty cool to think back and imagine gas companies, airlines, or basically anything that has now been commoditized on an industrial scale and imagine them being built as a two or three person team. I'd love to read a book on it, although I wouldn't be surprised if most of them were started by wealthy land owners or government sponsored undertakings in the first place. That other private bus line article on the front page looks interesting.

I like this.

I think most of the innovations and value you see here are for the consumer which are still real values and, i think, real important, but I agree that there's an amazing amount of innovation to be had underneath or behind the scenes in a lot of industries... particularly transit / travel

Which app provided the story? This format is not very clear, IMHO, at least on this here iPad.

Backspaces (http://backspac.es). It's the app you're looking at it with. If you want to be more specific about what makes it unclear I would love if you emailed me at dmitri at backspac.es and let me know.

Hey, I hope you see this. The reason it's unclear is that it's difficult to differentiate between the screenshots, and the text that makes up your story. The hipmunk screenshot is the best example of this: your story is white text on a black background, which is exactly the same as the screenshot. When skimming (and skimmers gonna skim), it's pretty hard to notice the story text.

The other part that's confusing is that sometimes the story text is on top of the images, and other times it's in a rounded-corner box that looks very similar to the image--in other words, is the text part of your story, or is it a screenshot/photo?

Thanks. I totally see it. Will have a think on alternative designs.

The Huxley quote is my favorite of the current crop of tips in the Hipmunk app. Made me smile to see it in your post. Thanks for using the app!