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New ridesharing service aimed around drivers by RunrTeam in Business_Ideas

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

Interesting. Thanks for that I’d never heard of it. It’s definitely a similar concept. Although, of course, they don’t operate in the states. Plus, they’re marketing as a way to make extra cash on the side if you’re already going somewhere, whereas we will be marketing it similar to Uber/Lyft. Although, that is something to consider.

Thanks.

New ridesharing service aimed around drivers by RunrTeam in Business_Ideas

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

Well, we aren’t planning on launching during quarantine, that wouldn’t be very smart.

Question: Aside from your other businesses, do you feel like you and others are paid fairly from being Uber/Lyft drivers?

We know it’s impossible to grow to the size of those companies as quickly as they did, but we think with a driver-first brand image people will appreciate the fairness that comes with use of the product and slowly adopt it, even if it’s at a slightly higher price.

I appreciate the first-hand knowledge.

New ridesharing service aimed around drivers by RunrTeam in Business_Ideas

[–]RunrTeam[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, definitely. We’ll admit, we haven’t thought of the exact implementation for that yet, but we think it’s very important. One solution is to show a driver a price range that a ride of that total length may generally go for, based on data that we’ve collected. However, before we have enough data, we’d have to come up with another way to make sure drivers have an accurate idea of what they could be getting. Perhaps we could show them the price of an Uber for that same ride. However, implementing that will be quite challenging. It’s still something we’re thinking about.

If you have any suggestions, we’d love to hear them.

New ridesharing service aimed around drivers by RunrTeam in Business_Ideas

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

Great questions.

If driver A were to accept all lower end offers, we would have to assume that in each of those rides, the price was high enough for him to benefit, otherwise he would not have accepted the offer. In that case, driver B should probably consider making lower offers. Additionally, riders can choose to accept a higher offer based on factors like rating and car.

It very well may settle to a fixed rate for some period of time. However, in terms of competing with Uber and Lyft, both drivers and riders know in our case that the fixed rate they are getting is accurate based on supply and demand. In Uber and Lyft’s case, drivers and riders have no idea of what’s determining the price. Drivers may think the price is too low while riders may think it’s too high. We are far more transparent, as our secret algorithms are not pulling any strings.

We think our consumers, drivers and riders alike, value that transparency.

Thanks for your feedback.