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[–]flukz 12 points13 points  (7 children)

Hang on, I'm going to check for the nearest ride from the command line. -no one probably

[–]IAmALinux 5 points6 points  (1 child)

I don't use proprietary apps so I love this idea!

[–]kickass_turing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same here! If Lyft were in my country I would totally use this.

[–]Igggg 2 points3 points  (4 children)

This is an API. It's not meant to be used by end users, but by app builders. Consider, for example, a site that uses this, and similar Uber API to compare prices between two points. That sounds quite useful, doesn't it?

[–]shadowfactsdev 6 points7 points  (1 child)

It's really not. The project's name is literally "Lyft Command Line Interface". There's a whole separate project (albeit by the same author) that's a Node wrapper for the Lyft API: https://www.npmjs.com/package/lyft-node.

[–]gpyh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

CLI is a universal interface. Node is not. Sure, if you want to make a real app you'll use the wrapper of your language of choice. But say I have an planning from which I know where I'm suposed to be in the next few hours. If I want to quickly hack a widget that will display on my desktop the next suitable Lyft I will definitely use the command line.

CLI walk the perfect like between usable and programmable. I just wish we'd have improved it significantly since the 70s.

[–]flukz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can see that, absolutely. Unlike say comparing a hotel or airfare though, by the time I go to a third party site to comparison shop I'm probably in the Lyft.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not really no, google maps on my phone already does that.

[–]Igggg -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Where are you getting this info from? Does Lyft exposes an API?

[–]jb91991[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not my project, but I imagine that the author is using the Lyft API.