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Joshua Meier@joshim5 · Student at Harvard College
Hey hunters, you can now schedule your Uber in advance! Stop dealing with wait times - Request an Uber now, for later. I'm a sophomore at Harvard and I love when technology can be both fun and useful. During my distributed systems course, I started experimenting with the UBER API and delaying calls for the future. I reached out to Uber for ride booking priv… See more
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Eric Frumkin@ericfrumkin · BD, Call/Text Cloud APIs @ Bandwidth.com
@joshim5 Cool idea! What about surge pricing? Does it lock in the rate at the time of request? Or does it just accept whatever rate it happens to be at the time of booking? If so, does it let me accept or decline the higher surge fare? I would be hesitant to use this app if I booked using this and it blindly accepted whatever surge was happening at the time… See more
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Andrew Mutavdzija@andym_dc · JD/MA Candidate, AU Wash. College of Law
@joshim5 Hey, just a heads up, after tapping "drop off" to change the address, the text in the box switches from "enter drop off location" to "enter pickup location." If you type in an address and tap it to select it, it still uses that as a drop off location, so it doesn't really change anything, just a heads up it might cause some confusion.
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Joshua Meier@joshim5 · Student at Harvard College
@ericfrumkin Hi Eric, thanks for the support! If there is surging at the time of booking, TaxiLater will prompt you to accept a higher fare. We're also thinking of new ways to help users. For example, book when surging is lowest within a 20 minute window, compare costs with other ride-hailing companies, etc.
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Keith C-R@pandemicmoon · CEO, KMD Digital
@joshim5 Always cool to see a personal project take flight. Since you've already got an backend, I would assume it would be eas(y/ier) to make the app for other platforms, (web, Android, ect.) I think this is a great idea and could be very useful to a lot of people. Good luck on future development.
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Joshua Meier@joshim5 · Student at Harvard College
@pandemicmoon Thank you! Definitely will be easier the second time around, now that all logic and the backend are in place. Just hoping to help as many people as much as possible.
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Benny Pleat@benny_pleat · Founder @Doorbell.me
@joshim5 Love the interface and hustle, Josh! Will use this around Harvard Square :)
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Joshua Meier@joshim5 · Student at Harvard College
@benny_pleat Thanks, Ben! Looking forward to TaxiLater bookings by Doorbell-run apartments :)
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