[TylerE]

Makes you wonder why no one has built an app that interfaces with all of them, and finds you the cheapest rate, while taking a kickback.

[dragonwriter]

> Makes you wonder why no one has built an app that interfaces with all of them, and finds you the cheapest rate, while taking a kickback.

They did (well, it at least has multiple Uber and Lyft services, and I don't know that they get a kickback); the app is called “Google Maps”.

[majani]

Uber forbids price comparison in their TOS and actively threaten to shut down price comparison sites that use their API: https://www.wired.com/story/uber-and-lyfts-never-ending-ques...

I guess the plan for Uber was always to use low prices to win the market and jack them back up later. Price comparison would interfere with this plan.

[paulddraper]

Did they make a buddy deal for Google Maps then?

[dzhiurgis]

Such API’s should be mandated by government - after all road surface is limited resource hence its a natural monopoly.

[gregoryrueda]

Saw a web app that did this a few years ago. Likely the companies made changes to their API’s. Would love to see it again though.