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Announcing the Android SDK and Lyft Button

37 points by ryan_lane 10y ago

icpmacdo 10y ago
Too bad there is not an affiliate program attached to this.
nihantanu 10y ago
Great!
tombert 10y ago
Does this give some kind of referral incentive?
- jocro 10y ago
  From another comment in this thread: https://developer.lyft.com/docs/affiliate-program https://developer.lyft.com/docs/affiliate-program Looks like $7.50/new user is their standard affiliate program, I wonder if they have an additional incentive for the button.
BinaryIdiot 10y ago
Uber's API includes an affiliate program where you earn $5 per new user you bring into Uber. Lyft does not. Why? Why would anyone, except for an incredible preference, choose to integrate with Lyft when they can make possibly a little bit of money using Uber? Edit: I was wrong. Couldn't find it on the linked sites.
- paulgb 10y ago
  It looks like they already have one for developers, at $7.50/new user: https://developer.lyft.com/docs/affiliate-program https://developer.lyft.com/docs/affiliate-program
  - BinaryIdiot 10y ago
    Well damn I stand corrected. I couldn't find this information at all on the pages linked from the blog. Not sure if it's a huge omission or I just completely missed it. I'll have to re-check it in a bit.
    - maxerickson 10y ago
      It's prominently linked in the left side panel in the Getting Started section: https://developer.lyft.com/ https://developer.lyft.com/
    - citruspi 10y ago
      Third sentence of the post > Using less than 20 lines of code, you can leverage the Lyft Button — which surfaces cost and ETA of a ride and deeplinks a user into the Lyft app (while earning revenue for every new user your app brings to Lyft). which links to[0] [0]: https://developer.lyft.com/docs/affiliate-program https://developer.lyft.com/docs/affiliate-program
      - BinaryIdiot 10y ago
        Huh. Could that have not existed before I commented or am I really that blind? Oh well. I swear I read the whole thing.
sethish 10y ago
I suspect this subsection was edited into the post later, as many previous comments did not read: > (while earning revenue for every new user your app brings to Lyft)

37 points by ryan_lane 10y ago

icpmacdo 10y ago

Too bad there is not an affiliate program attached to this.

nihantanu 10y ago

Great!

tombert 10y ago

Does this give some kind of referral incentive?

jocro 10y ago
From another comment in this thread: https://developer.lyft.com/docs/affiliate-program https://developer.lyft.com/docs/affiliate-program Looks like $7.50/new user is their standard affiliate program, I wonder if they have an additional incentive for the button.

BinaryIdiot 10y ago

Uber's API includes an affiliate program where you earn $5 per new user you bring into Uber. Lyft does not. Why? Why would anyone, except for an incredible preference, choose to integrate with Lyft when they can make possibly a little bit of money using Uber? Edit: I was wrong. Couldn't find it on the linked sites.

paulgb 10y ago
It looks like they already have one for developers, at $7.50/new user: https://developer.lyft.com/docs/affiliate-program https://developer.lyft.com/docs/affiliate-program
- BinaryIdiot 10y ago
  Well damn I stand corrected. I couldn't find this information at all on the pages linked from the blog. Not sure if it's a huge omission or I just completely missed it. I'll have to re-check it in a bit.
  - maxerickson 10y ago
    It's prominently linked in the left side panel in the Getting Started section: https://developer.lyft.com/ https://developer.lyft.com/
  - citruspi 10y ago
    Third sentence of the post > Using less than 20 lines of code, you can leverage the Lyft Button — which surfaces cost and ETA of a ride and deeplinks a user into the Lyft app (while earning revenue for every new user your app brings to Lyft). which links to[0] [0]: https://developer.lyft.com/docs/affiliate-program https://developer.lyft.com/docs/affiliate-program
    - BinaryIdiot 10y ago
      Huh. Could that have not existed before I commented or am I really that blind? Oh well. I swear I read the whole thing.

sethish 10y ago

I suspect this subsection was edited into the post later, as many previous comments did not read: > (while earning revenue for every new user your app brings to Lyft)