[Synthetase]

I am private beta testing an app that does exactly what is described.

[deminature]

It seems like there might be a difference between an app that serves a few hundred people and an app that serves hundreds of millions of people.

[aaronharder]

Don't know much about the ride share industry, but am interested and curious. Which parts of this type of app do you think would be particularly difficult to scale?

[lallysingh]

Spatially-oriented, locally-scoped applications pretty naturally shard out by region.

[Synthetase]

The way its built requires no human operational cost.

[deminature]

I'd be skeptical if ridesharing is possible without some human operational involvement. The most complex part is not the 99% of trips that go right, but the 1% that go wrong. The consequences of failure are more severe than say, a SaaS app not working correctly.

[lallysingh]

It's not like Uber does a good job here.