Leo Wandersleb on Nostr: I thought about this since before Uber was a thing and the main problem is that you ...

I thought about this since before Uber was a thing and the main problem is that you need a critical mass in one location. Uber was started in London I think. Big city. They paid drivers to just be available and gave riders free rides with a huge budget to kick-start it.

Here in Chile, InDriver was for free but Uber took 25%, yet the 10 available InDriver drivers were usually 20min away while Uber was 5min away, so all abandoned InDriver ... and Uber increased their cut above 40% last I heard.

The network effect is really hard to overcome and you have to start in some location with a massive marketing budget.