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What about the quality of service guarantees provided by Uber-for-X platforms? Both the service provider and the service consumer can see each other's social ra

What about the quality of service guarantees provided by Uber-for-X platforms? Both the service provider and the service consumer can see each other's social ratings and feedback on these platforms. A whole new set of customers become willing to engage with a more diverse set of service providers solely because of the quality of service guarantees (and not just convenience of the tap of a button) - AirBnB and the recently YC-launched VanGo are good examples.

Tade0 8y ago
What about the quality of service guarantees provided by Uber-for-X platforms? Frankly after that one time when my driver turned in reverse to face the wrong way I don't think there are any in practice and the system had been gamed a long time ago.
jimbokun 8y ago
Actually, shouldn't "Uber-for-X" literally be the business model? Can't you abstract away the specifics for all the verticals, and let someone quickly spin up their specific vertical in a few minutes, leveraging producer/consumer data models, social ratings, feedback, fraud detection, etc. Any reason why each "Uber-for-X" should be it's own company with its own custom built back ends and front ends?
- thekhatribharat 8y ago
  There are a good number of companies and open source projects in that space, that help with your Uber-for-X business. A few examples below - 1. Background checks for service providers - https://checkr.com https://checkr.com 2. Asset Tracking & Analytics - https://www.hypertrack.com/product https://www.hypertrack.com/product
- no_identd 8y ago
  Now consider the next steps: * Turn-key standing up of Uber-for-X service * Automating provisioning and downtearing of Uber-for-X services based on economic supply & demand (Think Microservices and Heroku Dynos) * ...doing all that as a non-profit, because once you automate that, how does the money flow, assuming an open source application? Uh-oh. I mean hell you could probably do half of this within a few months if you also use eTurk or something. Could even use Remote Personal Assistant services, too. Just would need a really good process model before you can start on starting with that. Edit: Come to think of it, what Uber-for-X companies do sound a lot like something almost completely covered by things like this sluggish monster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frameworx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frameworx Originally developed by the biggest telcos. (Yes that is why this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3IPVWN-1ks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3IPVWN-1ks applies to ALL carriers.)

Tade0 8y ago

What about the quality of service guarantees provided by Uber-for-X platforms? Frankly after that one time when my driver turned in reverse to face the wrong way I don't think there are any in practice and the system had been gamed a long time ago.

jimbokun 8y ago

Actually, shouldn't "Uber-for-X" literally be the business model? Can't you abstract away the specifics for all the verticals, and let someone quickly spin up their specific vertical in a few minutes, leveraging producer/consumer data models, social ratings, feedback, fraud detection, etc. Any reason why each "Uber-for-X" should be it's own company with its own custom built back ends and front ends?

thekhatribharat 8y ago
There are a good number of companies and open source projects in that space, that help with your Uber-for-X business. A few examples below - 1. Background checks for service providers - https://checkr.com https://checkr.com 2. Asset Tracking & Analytics - https://www.hypertrack.com/product https://www.hypertrack.com/product
no_identd 8y ago
Now consider the next steps: * Turn-key standing up of Uber-for-X service * Automating provisioning and downtearing of Uber-for-X services based on economic supply & demand (Think Microservices and Heroku Dynos) * ...doing all that as a non-profit, because once you automate that, how does the money flow, assuming an open source application? Uh-oh. I mean hell you could probably do half of this within a few months if you also use eTurk or something. Could even use Remote Personal Assistant services, too. Just would need a really good process model before you can start on starting with that. Edit: Come to think of it, what Uber-for-X companies do sound a lot like something almost completely covered by things like this sluggish monster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frameworx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frameworx Originally developed by the biggest telcos. (Yes that is why this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3IPVWN-1ks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3IPVWN-1ks applies to ALL carriers.)