Comment on Uber slashes fees in Bangladesh as drivers keep taking rides offline
vasametropolis@lemmy.world 7 months agoProfitable for who? The one hosting it foots the bill. If it was federated, all drivers could host their own instance like WordPress and a single app would connect to all instances and all drivers.
Agencies could start up to manage the tech for a negotiable fee if the drivers in the area didn’t want to bother with the tech.
Whether or not it could be profitable entirely depends on the hosting and delivery model. One guy could host the tech stack and charge maintenance fees and be in the green.
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 7 months ago
You can’t trust tiny random “self-hosted” Uber services. They could use any random drivers with criminal records, or even without drivers licenses. They could have terrible cars and charge extra fees. You would never be able to trust the driver ratings. They could tell you the car will arrive in 5 minutes for 30 minutes.
These are all the problems people had with small taxi companies. Why would you replicate that in an app?
vasametropolis@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You wouldn’t - the software would have to hook into a background check service. This can absolutely be done.