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Why is a car for hire company called a startup?
by orange_tee 6y ago
Why is a car for hire company called a startup?
- cinntaile 6y agoBecause they have a cool app that you use to unlock the car with. That makes them a hip new company or in other words a startup.
- camillomiller 6y agoThe app is not even cool. Is a React Native contraption developed externally. They switched to it last summer, exactly around the time when most of the vehicles got stolen, by the way. Before that they were using a different app connected to a white label solution provided by WunderMobility.
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- onion2k 6y agoThey have an app.
- camillomiller 6y ago*They have a React Native contraption struggling to scroll on an iPhone 12 Pro Max. Fixed that for you. :)
- orange_tee 6y agoI know it's a joke, but so do other car for hire companies. Ex: https://www.europcar.com/europcar-mobile https://www.europcar.com/europcar-mobile
- camillomiller 6y agoMiles claims to be a startup in shared-mobility whose mission is to bring transparency to the market. It's not a joke, it's on their website.
- ahartmetz 6y agoThe standards for "startups" in Germany are reeeally low. Most of them seem to get founded with the motivation "I want to be the boss of a startup and / or get rich quick", not "I want to do something well".
- jrochkind1 6y agoI dunno, why was WeWork? Why is anything?
- sharken 6y agoYeah, startup seems quite a stretch and ought to be reserved for novel ventures and not "Yet another car rental company".