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Re:Waze Carpool by ansible on Thursday January 25, 2018 @02:28PM (#16233765)
I was reading an article about 10 years ago about this ride-sharing in the DC metro area. We discussed how a smartphone app could make all this much easier and smoother. We didn't follow up on it back then...

It wasn't (and won't likely to be) the only big missed opportunity in my life.

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Re:Waze Carpool by halflings on Thursday January 25, 2018 @10:46PM (#16236900)
Survivorship bias makes us forget about the other dozens of "taxi/carpooling apps" that did not succeed.

"The Upstarts" [0] talks about some of those.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Upstarts-Airbnb-Companies-Silicon-Cha...

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Re:Waze Carpool by gesman on Thursday January 25, 2018 @03:45PM (#16234487)
To your benefit - it's not as easy as to take a few weekends and to code an ride-sharing app to app store.

Lots more business planning and resources are required to pull it off.

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