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> It's how many profit dollars does it lose. I think it would still would be likely close to zero. The ride share concept generally relies on easy booking fro
by kcplate 3y ago
> It's how many profit dollars does it lose.
I think it would still would be likely close to zero. The ride share concept generally relies on easy booking from a mobile location. So a huge % of your revenue would come from mobile just by the very nature of the service.
You may have some (probably a very small) percentage of users who prefer desktops, but of that desktop preference group most would simply opt to use mobile in lieu of a desktop app if it was not available. That would leave a tiny fraction who would simply not use the service at all. Their potential revenue minus the cost to maintain a desktop platform is what is lost. Quite honestly, I’d wager that you would barely break even in the cost to dev/maintain a desktop version vs the revenue specific to service that “only will book by desktop ever” use case.
- hakfoo 3y agoThe location might not be "mobile" though. I'd think a common use case is traveling/remote workers. Request the ride before you log out of your workstation for the day, and the car is at the building by the time you get to the front door.
- kcplate 3y agoWhy not just use a mobile app for that?