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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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.

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! 🫡

Hey Guy check your DMs its Jim from CASCDR. I dont have access to our old chat and i wanted to catch up and show you something cool