Introducing the Uber Request Endpoint
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Introducing the Uber Request Endpoint
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Re: Introducing the Uber Request Endpoint
#2Once the Uber Affiliate Program pays out as a % of revenue (or even some sort of flat-fee CPA), then I'll be very very interested
Re: Introducing the Uber Request Endpoint
#3We spent a weekend contemplating fun uses for the Uber API. Here are a couple ideas that we abandoned - feel free to use as you wish:
* "Bar roulette" where you would hit a button, an uber would show up, then take you to a random bar sourced from Yelp.
* Last-minute ticket sales to events (e.g. in the hour before they start) that include transportation
* Having bars or clubs offer to drive people there for free and bid based on demographics of the user like an ad - e.g. "We need more people in this age range, of this gender, etc." They would set a bid, and the app would ping people that matched the criteria and offer to drive them there for free if the estimated fare was less than the bid.
Re: Introducing the Uber Request Endpoint
#4We spent a weekend contemplating fun uses for the Uber API. Here are a couple ideas that we abandoned - feel free to use as you wish: * "Bar roulette" where you would hit a button, an uber would show up, then take you to a random bar sourced from Yelp. * Last-minute ticket sales to events (e.g. in the hour before they start) that include transportation * Having bars or clubs offer to drive people there for free and b…
That third one reads like something out of a Gibson novel. Might work best with a pre-defined group of people (e.g., models in an agency) or something similar.
Re: Introducing the Uber Request Endpoint
#5We spent a weekend contemplating fun uses for the Uber API. Here are a couple ideas that we abandoned - feel free to use as you wish: * "Bar roulette" where you would hit a button, an uber would show up, then take you to a random bar sourced from Yelp. * Last-minute ticket sales to events (e.g. in the hour before they start) that include transportation * Having bars or clubs offer to drive people there for free and b…
That third one reads like something out of a Gibson novel. Might work best with a pre-defined group of people (e.g., models in an agency) or something similar.
There could be all kinds of uses. Imagine a product launch event - "We need to pack a room so the press is impressed. Want anybody and everybody - tell them we have free food."
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#6Could a "traffic jam on demand" be built using this? A la Chris Christie?
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#7I worry that they're just going to follow Twitter's lead: build an API, get developers to work on interesting new ideas, pull in the good ones and the slowly squeeze out devs by locking up the API.
Re: Introducing the Uber Request Endpoint
#8Once the Uber Affiliate Program pays out as a % of revenue (or even some sort of flat-fee CPA), then I'll be very very interested
Good news!
Re: Introducing the Uber Request Endpoint
#9I worry that they're just going to follow Twitter's lead: build an API, get developers to work on interesting new ideas, pull in the good ones and the slowly squeeze out devs by locking up the API.
It's crowd sourced innovation.
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#10The Uber API is pretty nice to work with. I built a mobile-web surge avoider: http://nomoresurge.divshot.io/client/
If you load that up on your mobile phone you can search for the location nearest to you with low or no surge, and then deep link into the Uber app to actually call the car.
Now I can implement requests directly, which is very cool.