I've been a big fan of Skurt since they started. WAYYYY better than dealing with old school Avis/Hertz/etc. car rental services. Instead of waiting in line, Skurt delivers the car to you.
They just released an Android app and since their initial launch, they've expanded to two other cities beyond LA: Miami and San Diego. Still waiting for Skurt to come to San Francisco. 🙏🏼
@rrhoover Appreciate the support Ryan, you've been an OG supporter of the company. Really excited to be able to offer the platform to Android users now and looking forward to SF in the future.
@harryhur5t Definitely Toronto or Vancouver first! Since it's right beside a bunch of major universities (Guelph, Hamiton, Kitchener-Waterloo) which would have your audience demographic and there isn't much transportation options yet.
Hey all, we've built both our iOS and Android apps from ground up in the past 4 months with @luskin and @tonyteate.
We went full Swift on iOS. It heavily relies on PromiseKit. We built a few internal libraries that we will be open-sourcing soon. Our Android app is fully native as well. It's built with flux architecture, leveraging RXJava. We are using Swagger to auto-generated our internal SDKs on both platforms which allowed us to iterate super fast.
We'll be around all day. Would be more than happy to answer any technical questions.
@icanberk Yeah @luskin (iOS) and @tonyteate (Android) did an amazing job (biased of course). The app has come a long way since it was launched in October 2015.
@everette@icanberk@luskin@tonyteate this is amazing, great job! I love the concept and it's awesome that you guys are scaling quickly but with lots of thought and precision in every move 🙌
@icanberk@luskin@tonyteate excited to try you out once you come to San Francisco but I applaud your dedication to building on each platform natively. Good luck!
@joshmangel@harryhur5t Very nice. The app has a big disadvantage of facing a barrier of getting downloaded. The chance of remaining on the phone is also low. We can help mitigate that.
We at http://morph.ai can bring it to Facebook Messenger, which practically everyone has. Please check demos at http://morph.ai/demos. Contact me on ishan@morph.ai :)
@ishanjain_t first time being pitched on a product hunt launch, A for effort. will check out your platform. But disagree that having to download an app is a big barrier + our onboarding is pretty seamless and takes less than a minute.
@everette@ishanjain_t Disagree here as well. If they have Facebook Messenger, it means they have a device that has access to google play or app store, where Skurt is just a couple taps away. Not a big barrier by any means.
@matsilva thanks Mat, definitely with you on this one. Messenger bots have some cool applications and I'm excited to see where developers like Ishan take them. That being said, for now we're super focused on perfecting our in app experience.
I probably came out wrong here. We do not think that apps can be replaced by bots. Messaging is a very natural and personal way of communication. Bots are a good add on if not a replacement for app. I personally feel a little hesitance in downloading an app that I come across and I use around 6-7 apps daily on my phone. Rest of the apps just sit there waiting for it to be opened. @everette@matsilva@harryhur5t@everette would love your experience regarding this, I always assumed that everyone is hesitant in downloading new apps, specially when they are commuting and are on mobile data.
Product Hunt
Obie
Pipe
Bese
Pipe
Obie
Skurt 2.0
Bese
noplace
Bese
Zoo Design Studio v1.0
Morph.ai
Bese
Pipe
Bese
Morph.ai