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aaditbon··on What are your thoughts on my app idea- car pooling for high school students
Thanks for your feedback.
aaditbon··on What are your thoughts on my app idea- car pooling for high school students
Great observation. Yes I did research that by state, it's another story that not many follow that rule and we're not advocating that. For the first phase, we do not have no. of seats feature. So many times my usual ride cancels because they've a class after school and I'm driving by myself.

My school road is blocked each day for miles with so many kids driving solo literally from the same origin point.

aaditbon··on What are your thoughts on my app idea- car pooling for high school students
Great insights, thanks for your time on this. In my discovery I found several car pooling sites for parents but I've not found a single app for teenagers that manage it by themselves. I get asked so many times by freshman or sophomores for rides as I walk up to my car and they do not even know me personally. I plan to monetize it by in app purchases, we could add a tip feature or maybe this could be a saas offering to schools that want to participate?

I appreciate all this feedback, all are useful during this discovery phase.

aaditbon··on What are your thoughts on my app idea- car pooling for high school students
Thanks, helpful response.. I'm a high school student and our school brings in students from anywhere with 5 mins commute time to an hour. It's also not cool to take a bus as upper classmen. If I'm someone from say a neighborhood with 1k homes going to a large high school with over 5k kids, I wouldn't know which of these kids are nearby me. I wouldn't know their phone numbers say when I lose my ride for the day. Plus we could reduce carbon footprint by ride sharing that possibly are driving towards the same destination.

My app will allow kids from same school see each other's requests that either offer to drive or request a ride ensuing safety. Thoughts?