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npub1j3de...27tz 6 days ago
So I made a Nostr Rideshare Protocol, and two apps: Ridestr and Drivestr It relies on no company and no proprietary servers. All communication and synchronization is Nostr. All ride fares are calculated locally by your phone using routing map data delivered via blossom on first launch, and It uses the locally running android geocoder and or GrapheneOS geocoder for name to address search experience. Default payment method is Cashu over Bitcoin/Lightning, but I plan to expand with Nostr Wallet Connect options, as well as a pay in cash option (that drivers can filter out if they don't want to deal with it). Wallets are synced via NIP-60 nostr wallets for cashu. All other app profile features are synced cleanly with nostr. I will be open sourcing it of course when it's ready to launch. Android only so far, but I fully plan to make an IOS version if people like the idea. The cashu implementation has been buggy, so I'm working through the bugs on that one day at a time, but let me know if you wanna see it!

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Brock 6 days ago
Congratulations and awesome job building a software that addresses this market. The biggest challenge for Uber and Lyft was creating network effects. And battling license limitations / regulatory hurdles. Just a heads up as you start thinking about and working through adoption dynamics.
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npub1j3de...27tz 6 days ago
I guess i can release it soon. I just need to throw an open source license in the repo and clean up a few things and i'll probably figure out how to throw it in Zap Store this week
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StellarStoic one@satoshi.si 5 days ago
Add propper warnings and ratings because in my region, we have similar concept "closed" app and they we're forced to add a small payments into the app because there was a lot of bad actors on the platform. These kind of apps are useful P2P ride sharing apps indeed if done properly. Looking forward to see yours 🌱
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BTCBaggins 5 days ago
LFG! Finally a reason to drive! SWEET SWEET SATS! image
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LEON leon@nostr.aaroniumii.com 5 days ago
Technology based on Nostr that is really useful in the day to day. I wonder if there can be any integration with zkp2p.xyz so that drivers can continue to receive sats even if npcs pay with their dirty fiat. In Japan Uber had a lot of problems with taxi unions that did not want external competition. Uber is not available in Japan as it is in other countries. Although you can use the application and the service, what will come to pick you up is a fucking taxi of the usual. But this, who can stop it?
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hypercoin 5 days ago
Things like this might go unnoticed for a long time and then one day it’s ubiquitous. Social scaling is time intensive. Cool project. View quoted note β†’
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Brock 5 days ago
Network effects always have to happen first. Facebook started at elite colleges with an eager user base. Uber leveraged the VC network to aggressively expand (ignoring municipality objections), etc. Network effects are critical to achieve and almost impossible to overcome (look at Google’s multiple failed attempts to create a social media networks after Facebook’s brilliant ascension).
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npub1j3de...27tz 5 days ago
There is a special sauce I'm working on to navigate the network effect thing. Will reveal when I'm finished with it. It's separate from these two apps.
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CanopyKev 3 days ago
I've been thinking about something like this. Exciting. Very important to get the reputation system/WoT just right with this kinda app. You wanna be confident your being picked up and driven by a trustworthy individual. Particularly women.
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Jake Woodhouse jakewoodhouse@primal.net 2 days ago
What spread will you take between driver and passenger? The uber fee eg is massive. You can see drivers wanting more of their revenue adopting something like this, whilst users will migrate if there is enough optionally and it’s priced more competitively Very cool to see things like this being built!
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npub1j3de...27tz 2 days ago
There is no spread. The only fee is transaction fees by the mint (defaulted to minibits with a ~1% withdrawal fee)
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ihsotas 2 days ago
It would be interesting if existing rideshare drivers could somehow associate their ratings from centralized platforms to bootstrap their credibility on this new system.
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npub19fgs...plg8 2 days ago
I've gotta see this, it's probably an easy sell to drivers if the fees are just transaction fees.
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