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by koolba 3218 days ago
> My co-founder got the idea for Mystro while completing over 10,000 trips as an Uber/Lyft driver.

Wow that's nuts! Over what span of time was the 10K rides?

At 20 minutes per ride and 8 hours of non-stop driving per day, 7 days a week, that's almost a year and half. Add in any breaks between rides, weekends, or dead time between rides and its even longer.

> We automate switching multiple on-demand apps on and off. This ensures that drivers are available on all services to get the maximum number of rides but never get penalized for not accepting a ride because they are already on a trip

Had to read this a few times to parse it. So do you guys repeatedly cycle through the apps so the driver is on/off repeatedly? Or is it permanently off and you turn it on when you detect that there's a ride to accept? (Which I don't understand how you'd do if it's off)

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He was a driver full-time for 2 years.

When the driver is not on a trip, we turn on both apps. When they are on a trip, we turn off the app not in use.