[awtprod]

While waiting for a ride this morning, a guy pulled up next to me and tried to hand this to me. I waved at him to get lost but he was very insistent. So I grabbed it for shits and giggles. Lambo, is this your newest venture?

 

[Risab1981]

 

[heynow321]

I'm all for alternatives but realistically boober has an extremely strong ecosystem. Juno had around a billion in VC funds behind it and still failed miserably (relative to what it originally set out to do).

 

[Marco Solo]

CiRide pax app has 3--count 'em, 3--downloads on Google Play Store. The CiRide Driver app has all of 2 downloads. App descriptions use the same broken English phrasing. The developer is named Isaac Sebhatu. An Isaac Sebhatu in SF works as a software engineer in telecommunications. Another Isaac Sebhatu, with 0 LinkedIn connections, works in "Health, Wellness and Fitness" in the Greater Seattle area.

The app's screenshots in Play Store show examples in India. The screenshots in iTunes show examples of Seattle. Note that the ping screens show pickup address and dropoff address, along with the pax's full name.

 

[Dammit Mazzacane]

They'd better rename their multiplier something other than Surge...

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[AnfieldRiot]

Just when you thought someone wasn't dumb enough to replace Motor's status, along comes CI ride.

 

[Yooper]

what does CI stand for

 

[AnfieldRiot]

Criminally Investigated

 

[heynow321]

Covered informant

 

[dimwit_driver]

Crazy Idiots

 

[DexNex]

what does CI stand for

Ci is short for City.

 

[dimwit_driver]

Ci is short for City.

You're no fun
Why let facts get in the way?

 

[Marco Solo]

Ci is short for City.

In a municipal-government URL, "ci" is short for "City." Example: http://www.ci.lacey.wa.us/

In software development, "CI" stands for continuous integration.

 

[aspacepig]

Don't expect any surge. At the moment their driver app has been downloaded 100 times; their rider app, 3.

 

[Dammit Mazzacane]

Motor seemed more “together” than CI-Ride currently looks.
A rideshare should start small versus dipping into Seattle.

 

[freddieman]

Ci is short for City.

....or chlorine

 

[Marco Solo]

....or chlorine

Nope, chlorine is Cl--not Ci.

 

[signal11]

Anyone tried Moovn or whatever?

 

[K-pax]

Anyone tried Moovn or whatever?

Yes. I was signed on before they went live. They have no surge. Ever. And rates are the same as base rate uber-Lyft. I chuckle when I get their 'turn on moovn at the mariners game' txts. Let's make $5/hr whee!. It's a major bit of shortsightedness as far as the driver side of things. Their literature going out to pax celebrates it as having 'no surge, ever,' so I think this is central to their business model. Nice folks run it (small operation), but I don't think they quite get the rideshare incentives. they're all private limo/black car level drivers who have a livable base rate, making unicorn rates on every ap run, every day they work. They have been operating as a black car service and are only now breaking into rideshare.

 

[DexNex]

Yes. I was signed on before they went live. They have no surge. Ever. And rates are the same as base rate uber-Lyft. I chuckle when I get their 'turn on moovn at the mariners game' txts. Let's make $5/hr whee!. It's a major bit of shortsightedness as far as the driver side of things. Their literature going out to pax celebrates it as having 'no surge, ever,' so I think this is central to their business model. Nice folks run it (small operation), but I don't think they quite get the rideshare incentives. they're all private limo/black car level drivers who have a livable base rate, making unicorn rates on every ap run, every day they work. They have been operating as a black car service and are only now breaking into rideshare.

And, they didn't even have the service set up for higher tiers when they launched.