So I made a Nostr Rideshare Protocol, and two apps: Ridestr and Drivestr
It relies on no company and no proprietary servers. All communication and synchronization is Nostr. All ride fares are calculated locally by your phone using routing map data delivered via blossom on first launch, and It uses the locally running android geocoder and or GrapheneOS geocoder for name to address search experience. Default payment method is Cashu over Bitcoin/Lightning, but I plan to expand with Nostr Wallet Connect options, as well as a pay in cash option (that drivers can filter out if they don't want to deal with it). Wallets are synced via NIP-60 nostr wallets for cashu. All other app profile features are synced cleanly with nostr.
I will be open sourcing it of course when it's ready to launch. Android only so far, but I fully plan to make an IOS version if people like the idea.
The cashu implementation has been buggy, so I'm working through the bugs on that one day at a time, but let me know if you wanna see it!
Thread
Login to reply
Replies (17)
Yes! This is very needed. Commercial rideshare apps are asking for government ID and that's a big problem.
they take 60-70% of the fare too, which sucks
GitHub?
I'd like to see it!
Okay everyone, here is a demo!
View quoted note β
WOW WHEN WILL IT GO LIVE π¨
I guess i can release it soon. I just need to throw an open source license in the repo and clean up a few things and i'll probably figure out how to throw it in Zap Store this week
Add propper warnings and ratings because in my region, we have similar concept "closed" app and they we're forced to add a small payments into the app because there was a lot of bad actors on the platform.
These kind of apps are useful P2P ride sharing apps indeed if done properly. Looking forward to see yours π±
I've been thinking about something like this. Exciting. Very important to get the reputation system/WoT just right with this kinda app. You wanna be confident your being picked up and driven by a trustworthy individual. Particularly women.
Hey! We really need to explore it. Do you hope to publicly release the apps and Git repos soon? We need more information. π€
it's released now and on zapstore! About to push another build in a couple of hours with some more bug fixes, too
What spread will you take between driver and passenger? The uber fee eg is massive. You can see drivers wanting more of their revenue adopting something like this, whilst users will migrate if there is enough optionally and itβs priced more competitively
Very cool to see things like this being built!
There is no spread. The only fee is transaction fees by the mint (defaulted to minibits with a ~1% withdrawal fee)
Give it to proper marketers (drop mentions of Nostr, Lightning, etc; focus on freedom from Uber corp, 100% retained earnings), and I believe it can fly!
View quoted note β
It would be interesting if existing rideshare drivers could somehow associate their ratings from centralized platforms to bootstrap their credibility on this new system.
This is a key part of my strat for the next big update.
I've gotta see this, it's probably an easy sell to drivers if the fees are just transaction fees.