Chickens, Eggs, and Livery Services
Categories: Thoughts and Relevant Technology | Tags: cab, livery, New York City, nyc, ride, share, taxi, travel
The biggest challenge CabCorner faces, like any startup Dot Com, is reaching the critical user mass.
In order to attract users looking to share a cab ride so as to reduce travel costs, CabCorner requires multiple users creating or joining taxi trips through the website. But if there are no fellow travelers to be found, there won’t be any routes to join or people to share the route one creates. F**k.
It’s a classic chicken-or-the-egg conundrum:
- peeps won’t use the service unless there is a high probability of finding a schedule-friendly, cost-saving route
- there won’t be a high probability of finding such a route unless there are lots of peeps using CabCorner
The answer to the problem lies in providing an alterantive solution to users that answers their needs BEFORE the self-sustaining model erupts.
Sankho, our incredibly talented and even more incredibly moody developer stumbled upon an answer… which I then modified and now claim as mine.
Until there are enough travel routes created organically by CabCorner users, we’ll provide users with the locations and contact info of the five nearest livery cab companies any time a user finds no one else to share in their route!
In this way, we’ll always be able to provide users with an answer to all their city-travel needs. Hopefully, this alternative use will attract users, who will then behaviorally evolve into relying on the site as intended, and ultimately provide our network with the activity sufficient to save money, save space, and save the freaking world.
Because at the end of the day, isn’t that what the Lady Michelle would want?
February 11th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Is that lil’ baby chicken not the absolute CUTEST???
February 11th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
If i were a chick and I found an egg to share a cab with, who would get out first, the chick or the egg? OR what if i were an egg and there was no chick to share a cab with? With cabcorner’s new service, i could potentially get in to a cab as an egg and get out as a chick, go figure.