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by snickmy 524 days ago
what problem are you solving?

Discovery ? Ease of arrangement and management?

If discovery, you are fighting against worth of mouth of a very clicky group of people, that have plenty of other ways to exchange infomration that leads to discovery.

If it is ease of arrangement, you are fighting against SMS/text-messages.

TLDR: there is no business opportunity here, but it's a cool CRUD app to build and i'm sure you'll learn something in the process.

If you disagree with the above, do some user research with your target demographic. If you agree with the above, do some user research with your target demographic :)

1 comments

Thanks, helpful response.. I'm a high school student and our school brings in students from anywhere with 5 mins commute time to an hour. It's also not cool to take a bus as upper classmen. If I'm someone from say a neighborhood with 1k homes going to a large high school with over 5k kids, I wouldn't know which of these kids are nearby me. I wouldn't know their phone numbers say when I lose my ride for the day. Plus we could reduce carbon footprint by ride sharing that possibly are driving towards the same destination.

My app will allow kids from same school see each other's requests that either offer to drive or request a ride ensuing safety. Thoughts?

> It's also not cool to take a bus as upper classmen.

What say you did something uncool. Others might follow. It is the best solution.

Thanks for your feedback.