ridejoy

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by ridejoy 14y ago
We let drivers offer rides to places they're already heading to, and we cap pricing at the IRS reimbursement rate of about 50c/mile. This is very different from services like Sidecar and Lyft that compete with taxis, which in SF are around
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by ridejoy 14y ago
Some relevant facts: 1) Ridesharing has been around for decades. There were high-tech phone-based ridesharing programs in the 90s. I don't think anyone claims the idea of sharing rides itself is new. 2) There are many ridesharing services i
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by ridejoy 14y ago
Funny, we considered flyering the entire auditorium during Startup School last year, but decided that was too annoying and ended up flyering just the bathrooms instead. No one got the fake grimlock references, sadly...
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by ridejoy 14y ago
We do show matching rides from Craigslist as a service to our users. Using an iframe means we don't need to scrape/copy the content to show it, but it still looks good/works well. CL seems fine with it, we haven't had issues with them. And
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by ridejoy 14y ago
Ridejoy has hundreds of active rides in Canada (especially around Vancouver, but also Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Ottawa) and three Canadian cities are in the Popular Destinations section of our iPhone app. We also launched our iPhone ap
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by ridejoy 14y ago
Nope, we already had a full backend for our web service so introducing a new dependency for only part of their value prop didn't seem worthwhile (Though we love the people at Parse, and the product looks pretty great!)
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by ridejoy 14y ago
Would love any comments/suggestions you have-- this was our first iPhone app for those involved (mainly one designer and one engineer), so it was quite the learning experience. We're expecting a lot of, um, good feedback :) Thanks!
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by ridejoy 14y ago
Interesting, we've read a lot of untrue things about us in comment threads before, but this is a first :) we've never created dummy accounts/posts before (though we know it worked well for Reddit! <3 Alexis). Can you reply here or email
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by ridejoy 14y ago
Thanks! I wouldn't worry about our investors, the food is 2-3% of our total burn. Everyone loves food (see Pinterest) and it's a fun and occasionally enlightening way to find out more about a startup from the outside. (note: if you haven't
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by ridejoy 14y ago
We always had an "unlimited food from Costco" benefit, and now Camille's taking it one step farther by actually making home-cooked dinners. It's been an awesome experiment!
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by ridejoy 15y ago
Success story: I met someone recently who found her new job at OKCupid Labs from last last month's HN Who's Hiring thread. (She'd also met her husband on OKCupid, so that helped.) As a comparison, between Dribbble's (a design-specific commu
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by ridejoy 15y ago
We're looking for designers and engineers! Ridejoy is a community marketplace for rides (YC S11) We love well-designed experiences, we have a rapidly growing community that loves us back (and loves telling us so), and we're building a marke
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by ridejoy 15y ago
This was fixed shortly after your report. Thanks!
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by ridejoy 15y ago
By awkward address, you mean "International Terminal G (EMB), 275 S Airport Blvd, San Francisco, CA 94080, USA"? Just checking. We'll add support for place names at some point. Thanks!