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  • I’m a brown dude. I have so many stories about bad taxi experiences. From Taxi drivers refusing to pick me up, to them going, “You’re lucky to be in my car”, to “I’m not driving there. Get out.”

    Around 2017 and was very upset at Uber, I took a taxi from the airport. The guy refused to drive until we had more people in the car. I said this wasn’t a car share, and he told me to go take a bus. When I started getting a Uber, he apologized and took me, but then bitched about it the whole drive that he was losing money.

    Uber and Lyft changed it all.

    Cleaner cars. No attitudes. Agreed upon destination and fair.

    I have no sympathy for taxis.














  • Department lead.

    The website team is small, but incredibly effective. Everything works. Everything is mobile friendly, responsive, fast. It’s a way better experience.

    I love my app developers, but they’re always behind. Not their own fault. Mobile development is complicated. There’s so many screen sizes, iOS vs Android differences, platform permissions, etc.

    The big reason for us to push the App on people was to get more brand awareness on the App Store. But the website is so much more better.

    You literally can use it as a web app right into your phone and get a better experience.

    And it’ll be such a dark day when I have to dissolve the App team (and hopefully convince them into web dev)