Cost of developing ride hailing app (eg Uber, Lyft)
How much money and how many people would it take to develop an application that is basically an Uber clone?
It’s 2 applications
One senior engineer, 45 min interview.
Just Larry Ellison’s cat and a lot of catnip.
$25K to $100K
Who cares? Facebook was built by a guy in his dorm room between classes. Google was a college project. Twitter was basically built in a week. Amazon sold books and only books. Netflix mailed DVDs. If you think the complexity, success, and marketshare of these services begins and ends with a basic user-facing front-end, well...
Wasn't Uber built by a Mexican outsourcing company? # Ubercab’s app had been built quickly by a team of freelance programmers hired by cofounders Kalanick and Camp, and as a consequence it was full of bugs that would sometimes send all the Uber cars in San Francisco to the same place. https://www.fastcompany.com/3050250/what-makes-uber-run
Wait, so you're saying the minimum viable product of a brand new startup had issues and bugs!? No way! That's never happened before in the history of tech! Whoosh!
I would imagine that’s true of very naïve algorithms
Would algorithm efficiency even matter when the demand is less than a hundred? I thought algorithm would naturally improve as userbase increases and profit increases