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Urban Commute: Hailing the Shared Ride (Uber Like Buddy Platform Ideas)

Vipin Jain

Every big business begins as a startup. Platforms for ride sharing or carpooling doesn’t take a lot of money but they do take a lot of perseverance. It isn’t exactly the start that one bargains for, especially when life’s savings are at stake.

Cab riding platforms have fought the battle on many fronts and some skirmishes could be more bruising than others. Big businesses (who started sometime back) got a taste of biases and prejudices against carpooling early while parleying with corporates and tech parks to hold awareness campaigns on their premises.

With all the risks involved and a lot of time required for approval, it took time to make people believe that this will work. When every person waits for somebody else to try it first, the platform is deemed to win if they promise on-demand, inexpensive and safe ride, getting gelled up with less pollution and traffic congestion.

Uber wants to conquer the world but it is definitely backed by its competitors (mapped by Forbes):

Source: forbes.com

Ride-Sharing Ideas

Here are some (not so big) but prominent proponents (ideas) of ride-sharing platforms, that can become best-funded startup in this segment without burning lots of money and wondering if the idea is feasible: (in no particular order)

Cab booking app for parents (especially working parents) who wish to transit their kids (in their presence or absence) to their grandparent’s place or just to give them a ride around the town, can be very engaging for both parents and children. Sometimes, kids get cranky for no particular reasons. In such cases, a ride could be all that they wish for.

Multimodal transportation for handicapped people can be both convenient and economical. A ride sharing app specially designed for handicapped people for Android and iOS can act as a great fundraiser and a one in its kind. Integrating Siri or Alexa can be no difficult and lead to an added convenience. Such cab sharing platforms often help users orient to bus and train, but that does not have every micro-mobility partnership in every area.

Not every idea is unique and neither has it to be. But the similarities end just there and the difference lies in execution. Suitable for women of all age groups and communities, taxi booking app development companies can customize, “uber for women” to user experience for their needs, which will eventually help lower cost of customer acquisition by defining their specific customer segment.

Logistics has always been perceived to be a low-talent industry. But parallel to this, the e-commerce industry has made substantial growth, and it has become challenging for them to engage talent in logistics. Uber for logistics or Uber for Material Transportation attracts homegrown talent which is actually difficult in case of slow adaptation to technology and agile solutions by professionals has resulted in talent crunch in the e-commerce logistics sector.

Uber for patients is a reliable, cost-effective way to help patients stay on schedule. Uber health gets participants here who would have otherwise not shown up.

A transport app like Uber transport can act as a single platform for booking bus, train, flight from a single interface, get real-time alerts for PNR and confirmation status, allows to calculate fares, calculate distance and time.

It’s a Validation

Uber and its counterparts (similar on-demand application development) are patching information together to create a coherent network allowing underserved areas to connect with better-resourced areas. People can commute to get to their required destinations to meet their personal needs on-demand. Uber has contributed towards the commuters in making contributions showing who is moving where, in what mode and how fast, which has eventually allowed public agencies to craft better plans.