> you need a great iOS app > you need a great Android app Neither of these is rocket surgery. Good devs can create an app very quickly, especially if your dir

> you need a great iOS app > you need a great Android app Neither of these is rocket surgery. Good devs can create an app very quickly, especially if your directions are "clone this other app." > you need a backed that is both fast and has rock solid 24/7 reliability. it can't be like Twitter in early days So you need something that isn't node + redis + mongo + riak running heroku through cloudflare. This is also quite easy. > you need to become a payment processor that interjects itself between users and drivers, which I'm sure comes with its own set of legal and logistic challenges * and you need to do it internationally > and you need a massive operation team whose job is to onboard new drivers (recruit, train, supervise) > you need a legal team because every state can have different rules > and you need them also internationally The beauty of all of these things is that Uber has already done many of them for you. Unless they have all of their drivers under NDA (possible, but unlikely) and haven't published any of that informaton on their website, you're going to profit from hundreds of thoussands if not millions of dollars of legal work that Uber has already done for you. It's not as simple as a sed script on a legal document, but it's way (way way) easier than starting from scratch. The best part is that your drivers can also be Uber drivers, so you don't need the volume that Uber has today - you can slowly build up both sides of your market as long as the friction for drivers is minimal and the ease for users is equal or better. Is it easy? Fuck no. Is it about 1000% easier for you now that Uber has done all of the hard work? Hell yes.