Did you watch the video?
Riders build out their own network bottom up. If they don't have a driver available when they put out the batsignal they just keep riding uber and lyft and can add more reliable drivers to their own network later.
One thing you need to understand more than ANYTHING else if you want this idea to work:
YOU NEED ONE SUSTAINABLE NETWORK.
Do not try to get more driers or adoption everywhere at once. Do ONE city and try to get a threshold where there are enough available drivers and users to actually be sustainable by itself. Then branch out. This will take a very direct and concerted effort though.
I would read The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen if you want a view of the network effects this is up against. It would be amazing to see something like this succeed, but I think the hard part isn’t building the app, imo.
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This is amazing 🤩
This is how Nostr wins
The other stuff!!!!!!!!
He did not watch the video. This is some cool shit.
I literally posted because it WAS cool. I made a note about trying to build up network effects to help make it succeed.
You're actually correct, lo.l. I conflated 2 diff videos and never watched the one i renoted without realizing. He was literally answering the point I brought up in the video
I tottally didn't watch the video i reposted. I had watched the demo and then renoted this one thinking it was the other apparently. The idea of using this as the way to favorite a driver (the very thing Lyft and Uber wont let you do) is fucking amazing. It's literally the way to *get around* the atomic network problem by letting you make your own.
Yeah my comment is completely off and this is such a great idea! Kudos to actually addressing this very thing 🔥
Appreciate the follow up and glad you got to see the video! 🫡