I remember that time quite well. These alternative apps would always fail over the weekends when demand skyrocketed. They just didn’t work, when most people nee

I remember that time quite well. These alternative apps would always fail over the weekends when demand skyrocketed. They just didn’t work, when most people needed them the most (drunk and trying to get home from bars/clubs). That really hurt their reputation in my eyes and in the eyes of others like me (which in Austin was a lot!). I personally remember wandering around at 4am trying to get a ride back… not an experience you can forget easily. It also wasn’t just a single weekend thing. These other apps had almost a year to fix themselves and they couldn’t. I guess they just couldn’t muster the capital to build something really solid. But in any case it just made it very clear that this isn’t an easy problem. And when Lyft/Uber came back, the other apps were dropped immediately lol.