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Uber doesn't have the money or engineers to do this? We have a market cap 1/100th the size of Uber and a tiny fraction of their engineers, yet we still have thi
by scurvy 11y ago
Uber doesn't have the money or engineers to do this? We have a market cap 1/100th the size of Uber and a tiny fraction of their engineers, yet we still have this. It's just a matter of how much you want to invest on customer experience and support.
I'm sure the Uber fanboys/employees will downvote this comment, too. I really wish HN had better "karma" detection for this sort of thing.
- mahyarm 11y agoThey probably have engineers working on this, but it's also growing like crazy. Since they've basically tripled in the past year in every metric, I bet the majority of engineers there have been there for less than a year. Also making anything has a time cost that you cannot shorten too quickly without consequences. Systems also start breaking down as you start getting larger, and you have to start inventing your own crap. There is a reason why everything is custom at Google/Facebook scale. It's the same reason why Apple says 'we dont have the engineering resources to do that right now'. It's not money, but time, skilled people, scale, and engineers familiar with your codebase and system. The bigger you get, the more work it is to integrate into a system, and the amount of work required multiplies continuously.