Show HN: Real-time Fare Estimate Comparisons for Uber, Lyft, Sidecar, and Taxi

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Post by coda322 » Wed, Sep 10, 2014, 10:11 PM UTC

Show HN: Real-time Fare Estimate Comparisons for Uber, Lyft, Sidecar, and Taxi
whatsthefare.com

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Post by ecesena » Wed, Sep 10, 2014, 10:51 PM UTC

This reminds me Movigo [1]. Is there any relationship or known difference?

[1] http://www.movigo.com

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Post by jesseclay » Wed, Sep 10, 2014, 10:57 PM UTC

This is really cool. How do you guys get current surge/prime time rates?

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Post by starik36 » Wed, Sep 10, 2014, 10:59 PM UTC

This is awesome. One suggestion is a permalink for a specific fare estimate that I can forward someone.

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Post by nmjohn » Wed, Sep 10, 2014, 11:02 PM UTC

Cool idea! FYI, when I clicked the 'locate' button and denied it access, the spinner just kept going and I couldn't manually enter a location.

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Post by bentcorner » Wed, Sep 10, 2014, 11:10 PM UTC

jesseclay wrote: post #3

This is really cool. How do you guys get current surge/prime time rates?

Uber has an API, but I looked into Uber's TOU a week a two ago and they explicitly disallowed this sort of thing (comparison shopping). Maybe it's just an estimate?

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Post by swang » Wed, Sep 10, 2014, 11:13 PM UTC

Which locations does this website have actual data for? Just tried two places in San Francisco and it said it had no data.

Is this an actual site or just a one pager looking for interest?

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Post by cbhl » Wed, Sep 10, 2014, 11:16 PM UTC

swang wrote: post #7

Which locations does this website have actual data for? Just tried two places in San Francisco and it said it had no data. Is this an actual site or just a one pager looking for interest?

What two places did you try? It works for me.

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Post by neilsharma » Wed, Sep 10, 2014, 11:23 PM UTC

I love products like these. Slices right through all the promotional noise like "fun drivers," "fast pick-up times," "clean cars," etc and gets right to chase -- price.

At the end of the day, they are all taxi services in my book. Whichever gets me from point A to point B the cheapest wins my dollars. Fast pick-up times, a sexy functional app, and other common sense differentiators are expectations now, not selling points.

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Post by cylinder » Wed, Sep 10, 2014, 11:24 PM UTC

You'll want to adjust yellow taxi fares from Manhattan to JFK and reverse. This is done on a flat fee.