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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 pref
by 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 agoIt 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 agoWell 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 agoIt's prominently linked in the left side panel in the Getting Started section: https://developer.lyft.com/ https://developer.lyft.com/
- citruspi 10y agoThird 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 agoHuh. Could that have not existed before I commented or am I really that blind? Oh well. I swear I read the whole thing.