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Chris Messina

Uber Ride Request Button - Tap a button. Get a ride. From every app

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Tom Masiero
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The question is "Why" would an app/service do that? Are there kickbacks for these apps? I get it that new users gain affiliate $$.
Chris Saad
iTunes
Maker
@blendahtom The 'why' is that it offers a differentiated/great experience for your users. Also the Affiliate $ you mention is the 'kick back'. The money goes to the App Developer, not the user.
Spencer
@chrissaad @blendahtom I find them obnoxious because I use Lyft, and never Uber. Hope Lyft pushes this out, too, to make the experience good for all users, not just Uber users.
Andrea Hill
UbiMeet
@chrissaad @blendahtom so the only problem I see with saying "this offers a differentiated experience" is ... don't you want EVERY app to integrate this? At which point it's not differentiation. That's awesome for you if it happens, but if your value prop is differentiation, that may be a hard sell without some sort of exclusivity or something baked in. Does that make sense?
Chris Saad
iTunes
Maker
@afhill like any feature - if you do it early it's differentiated. If you do it late it becomes table stakes.
Chris Messina
Raycast
Hunter
Imagine every app that has an address in it adding a Ride Request button. That's huge distribution for Uber, and a good experience for app users... Further, this is interesting because it's an example of an API that really makes the most sense in a mobile app, where the user's location data is available. Of course, there are SDKs like Fabric that are targeted at mobile apps, but this kind of feature is unique to the mobile context. It'll be interesting to see how the Uber platform continues to evolve and provide points of integration for third party devs.
Alex Vinogradov
HeartIn Portable Electrocardiograph
They dont send postbacks when user order ride - terrible and stupid for 25B$ company ;)
Chris Saad
iTunes
Maker
@alexvinogradov4 Postbacks? Do you mean notifications of trip state changes? Refer to our webhooks here: https://developer.uber.com/docs/...
Johnny Quach
AirHelp
@chrissaad @alexvinogradov4 Respect to Chris for keeping it cool. Comments like this are unproductive and argumentative for the sake of negativity.
Luka
Penta
What a great idea. In addition to what @afhill said, think this is the beginning of a BIG trend. Eventually all apps will be integrated one way or another. @_btsta @oplante ThingThing keyboard is one of the pioneers in this as well- giving users the ability to access their most used apps apps in other apps. Don't think "Even Deeper Linking" is the right term, but this is a beginning of a trend. @chrismessina @bestebreurtje @chrissaad
Jose Bautista
What a great product! At @thingthingapp, I confirm we're working hard on making your life easier and this will help us a lot! Thanks @chrismessina and @prokotasic for sharing!
Dmitriy
Cool. Any chance this is powered by @button ?
Yan Gorshtenin
I think this will be very useful, I use Uber almost every where I go and now I will be able to order a ride from about anywhere.
michal Naka
This is interesting! I can see a lot of use cases. How do you see it getting more useful/smarter over time?
Chris Saad
iTunes
Maker
@michalnaka Right now the button is very simple/static. You can imagine all sorts of improvements to bring more of the Uber experience/live metadata into the button over time.
Juergen Hoebarth
What i miss most in the UBER APP is that i can only have two locations. Home and Work. - First when seeing this i thought integration would be as easy as a integrate FB Like button to a page. Would be great if there would be a simple Button where i could request different rides. Basicaly i have my own "website" with my favourite rides and could get them just with a simple push of a button.
jns.eth
@juergenhoebarth the api is there, it must be possible to just build this?