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Show HN: Build your own ridesharing, gig, on-demand apps Firebase and HyperTrack

55 points by tulushev 7y ago

tulushev 7y ago
Here is the source code for driver and rider side apps on iOS and Android focused on live location tracking of pickup and drop. May be reused by developers building ridesharing, gig economy or on-demand (à la Uber-for-X) apps. Rider initiates request, routes to driver via Firebase backend, driver accepts, and then pickup and drop get tracked in realtime via web URL or in-app. The order management back-end is on you. Disclaimer: though apps are open source, location tracking is powered by HyperTrack SDK/APIs, which you need to pay for after 14-day free trial.
deniszpua 7y ago
Is it vanilla rider-driver matcher or has some cherries like routes, timing etc?
- tulushev 7y ago
  In this sample driver can choose the rider. Routes and ETAs are handled by Firebase Cloud Functions that call HyperTrack APIs.
  - kdeorah 7y ago
    How do you calculate ETAs? Do you use Google Maps?
    - agraebe 7y ago
      We use a combination of OSRM & Google Maps for routes and ETA
prateeks 7y ago
Pretty cool! Any plans for some aggregate product metrics like rides completed per day etc
- agraebe 7y ago
  The app uses HyperTrack, which has a dashboard for aggregate trip metrics and individual trip summaries
akishinevsky 7y ago
How quickly do I get to see my driver's most recent location to show up in my rider's app? Is it as good as Uber's or faster?
- agraebe 7y ago
  The driver locations show up just as fast. Every location is processed and improved on the platform to improve accuracy and reliability
kishanht 7y ago
Is there a demo I can use without building the source code?
- agraebe 7y ago
  We don't have the sample apps on the App/Live stores right now. It's very easy to spin up your own app, though. Will explore if we can provide the apps through stores so you can try them quickly without building the sources yourself
aussieguy1234 7y ago
Uber needs some competition, hopefully this will lead to a better deal for drivers and riders
- kdeorah 7y ago
  Bike-pooling and carpooling are taking off quite a bit in Asia (at the expense of Uber). Scooters and bikes are doing well in US and EU. There are more apps to be built for sure... It's the beginning, not the end.
- overcast 7y ago
  Competition? There are lots of competing products around the world.
thesanerguy 7y ago
Any live production app that was able to use this code base and build their own app finally? Wondering how easy it is for someone to take this production.
- agraebe 7y ago
  This is a new repo. Various users from early startups to large public companies have in-production apps built with HyperTrack. That said, users can use this open source app with their own live location platform and take it to production outside of HyperTrack.
theyoungwolf 7y ago
does this scale?
- agraebe 7y ago
  It does! We built the whole platform using serverless on AWS. We wrote about it here: https://hypertrack.com/blog/2019/07/11/how-we-built-a-serverless-architecture-with-aws/ https://hypertrack.com/blog/2019/07/11/how-we-built-a-server.... It's been validated by many customers and scales up and down easily.
ilaksh 7y ago
What's the advantage of using HyperTrack over directly calling Google Map APIs with your own account?
- agraebe 7y ago
  If your ridesharing app requires getting/managing your driver's location data in the cloud, HyperTrack does that. Google Maps does not.
- tulushev 7y ago
  To build ridesharing apps, you must get driver locations from Android/iOS, and use Google Maps API to get routes/ETA/map experience. All the device-to-cloud glue in between is on you. HyperTrack does that.

55 points by tulushev 7y ago

Here is the source code for driver and rider side apps on iOS and Android focused on live location tracking of pickup and drop. May be reused by developers building ridesharing, gig economy or on-demand (à la Uber-for-X) apps. Rider initiates request, routes to driver via Firebase backend, driver accepts, and then pickup and drop get tracked in realtime via web URL or in-app. The order management back-end is on you. Disclaimer: though apps are open source, location tracking is powered by HyperTrack SDK/APIs, which you need to pay for after 14-day free trial.

deniszpua 7y ago

Is it vanilla rider-driver matcher or has some cherries like routes, timing etc?

tulushev 7y ago
In this sample driver can choose the rider. Routes and ETAs are handled by Firebase Cloud Functions that call HyperTrack APIs.
- kdeorah 7y ago
  How do you calculate ETAs? Do you use Google Maps?
  - agraebe 7y ago
    We use a combination of OSRM & Google Maps for routes and ETA

prateeks 7y ago

Pretty cool! Any plans for some aggregate product metrics like rides completed per day etc

agraebe 7y ago
The app uses HyperTrack, which has a dashboard for aggregate trip metrics and individual trip summaries

akishinevsky 7y ago

How quickly do I get to see my driver's most recent location to show up in my rider's app? Is it as good as Uber's or faster?

agraebe 7y ago
The driver locations show up just as fast. Every location is processed and improved on the platform to improve accuracy and reliability

kishanht 7y ago

Is there a demo I can use without building the source code?

agraebe 7y ago
We don't have the sample apps on the App/Live stores right now. It's very easy to spin up your own app, though. Will explore if we can provide the apps through stores so you can try them quickly without building the sources yourself

aussieguy1234 7y ago

Uber needs some competition, hopefully this will lead to a better deal for drivers and riders

kdeorah 7y ago
Bike-pooling and carpooling are taking off quite a bit in Asia (at the expense of Uber). Scooters and bikes are doing well in US and EU. There are more apps to be built for sure... It's the beginning, not the end.
overcast 7y ago
Competition? There are lots of competing products around the world.

thesanerguy 7y ago

Any live production app that was able to use this code base and build their own app finally? Wondering how easy it is for someone to take this production.

agraebe 7y ago
This is a new repo. Various users from early startups to large public companies have in-production apps built with HyperTrack. That said, users can use this open source app with their own live location platform and take it to production outside of HyperTrack.

theyoungwolf 7y ago

does this scale?

agraebe 7y ago
It does! We built the whole platform using serverless on AWS. We wrote about it here: https://hypertrack.com/blog/2019/07/11/how-we-built-a-serverless-architecture-with-aws/ https://hypertrack.com/blog/2019/07/11/how-we-built-a-server.... It's been validated by many customers and scales up and down easily.

ilaksh 7y ago

What's the advantage of using HyperTrack over directly calling Google Map APIs with your own account?

agraebe 7y ago
If your ridesharing app requires getting/managing your driver's location data in the cloud, HyperTrack does that. Google Maps does not.
tulushev 7y ago
To build ridesharing apps, you must get driver locations from Android/iOS, and use Google Maps API to get routes/ETA/map experience. All the device-to-cloud glue in between is on you. HyperTrack does that.