So in Retrospect, when you were making your 5 year plan in 2015, hands up, who got this right?
Lets go Back to the time machine to January 2015, In Silicon Beeach m-Santa Mi]onica CA-- where The Uber of everything was taking place and every one had an Ap and was APPY.
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People with money and no time and people with time and no money equals the ODME, On-Demand Mobile Economy- at The 3rd Street Promenade.
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Venture Beat- Building apps and services for lazy people is one area the tech industry is quite good at.
2014 was a big year for getting everything you could want from the comfort of your smartphone. We found plenty of these services in Y Combinator’s Summer 2014 class. But next year is going to get even lazier:
Parking
Earlier in 2014, parking apps were all about buying and selling street parking spots, Luxe Valet (Our App), Zirx, ValetAnywhere, and Vatler appealed to every driver in busy cities like San Francisco with a simple proposition: on-demand valet parking from wherever is convenient. Freeing drivers from looking for parking near their destination and offering the convenience of handing off their cars just in front of their destination became a very popular new experience — just look at all the money investors have thrown into these companies whose product they undoubtedly use.something that wasn’t rightfully — or legally — people’s to buy and sell. But not too long after, a crop of startups including
And SpotHero, a three-year-old company, finally made its way to San Francisco. Unlike the on-demand valet parking apps, SpotHero makes drivers park their own car in private lots and garages they book and pay for through the app. But SpotHero also shone the spotlight on parking inventory, the aspect of the parking that will make some and break others. Just as companies like Lyft and Uber are duking it out by racking up (and poaching) as many drivers as they can, the parking apps will be racing to grab as much inventory as possible.
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Alpha Testing Our New On Demand Luxe Valet Parking Ap
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| Dumb and Dumber-We are smiling on our Razor Kick Scooters. ..as we are about to get run over by a Mack Truck. |
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NYT Blog: When I describe it to you it will sound crazy, bourgeois and inefficient, and your first instinct will be to dismiss it. Don’t. Luxe works amazingly well, and as it and other similar services expand nationally — Luxe is starting up in Los Angeles this week — they could radically alter how large cities work.
Luxe is an on-demand valet parking service. When you need to drive somewhere where parking is tough, like pretty much any part of San Francisco, open up the app and tell it where you’ll be going. Then start driving. When you get to your destination, a valet will be waiting for you on the side of the road. He’s wearing a blue jacket bearing the Luxe logo, and he greets you by your name, so you know he’s legit.
Hand him your car keys. Yes, don’t worry, it’s fine. Luxe is insured for $1 million against theft and damage, and it tracks your car with GPS. So, as I said, hand him your car keys. Tell him how long you’ll need your car parked. Watch him drive away with your car. If you want, you can look at the app to see a little icon representing your car making its way to a parking lot.
That’s it. Your car has been parked.
Later on, when you need your wheels, open up the app again and hit the button to call back your car. Luxe will assign you a valet, and you’ll see the return play out right there on you phone’s screen — a valet approaching your parked car, and then the car heading to you. In about 10 minutes, your car arrives. One nice perk is that your return destination can be anywhere in Luxe’s service area, not necessarily the place where you originally parked your car. You can drive your car into the office in the morning, then have it returned to you that night after dinner in another part of town.
But here’s the best part. Luxe costs just $5 an hour, with a $15 maximum daily rate. If that doesn’t sound freakishly cheap to you, you haven’t parked in San Francisco
Luxe is an on-demand valet parking service. When you need to drive somewhere where parking is tough, like pretty much any part of San Francisco, open up the app and tell it where you’ll be going. Then start driving. When you get to your destination, a valet will be waiting for you on the side of the road. He’s wearing a blue jacket bearing the Luxe logo, and he greets you by your name, so you know he’s legit.
Hand him your car keys. Yes, don’t worry, it’s fine. Luxe is insured for $1 million against theft and damage, and it tracks your car with GPS. So, as I said, hand him your car keys. Tell him how long you’ll need your car parked. Watch him drive away with your car. If you want, you can look at the app to see a little icon representing your car making its way to a parking lot.
That’s it. Your car has been parked.
Later on, when you need your wheels, open up the app again and hit the button to call back your car. Luxe will assign you a valet, and you’ll see the return play out right there on you phone’s screen — a valet approaching your parked car, and then the car heading to you. In about 10 minutes, your car arrives. One nice perk is that your return destination can be anywhere in Luxe’s service area, not necessarily the place where you originally parked your car. You can drive your car into the office in the morning, then have it returned to you that night after dinner in another part of town.
But here’s the best part. Luxe costs just $5 an hour, with a $15 maximum daily rate. If that doesn’t sound freakishly cheap to you, you haven’t parked in San Francisco
Seems like Booze DeliveryWhen you hook people with a lot of money and no time, with people with a lot of time and no money, you have the ODE-On Demand Economy. The smartphone is the REAL Remote Control to the YOUniverse.
Aps are sprouting up everywhere too and talked with the ppl from Sqyre.
Came across this poem on my twitter feed that captures the Zeitgeist over here.
There’s Uber for planes, And Uber for jets,
An Uber for pills And Uber for pets.
An Uber for pills And Uber for pets.
There’s Uber for dogs, And Uber for cats.
Need a hot stone massage? There’s an Uber for that.
Need a hot stone massage? There’s an Uber for that.
An Uber for nails, And an Uber for news.
And while your nails dry, There’s an Uber for booze. There’s an Uber for kids,
#Uber connects you with a driver in minutes. It's an app for your mobile phone. There's a lot of companies in this space--and I decided to try the competition #Lyft, this week for the first time- My driver Moe was great.
The amazing thing is transparency- Not only do I know who the driver is and can rate him, but he knows me-and in fact I got rated by him!
And while your nails dry, There’s an Uber for booze. There’s an Uber for kids,
And an Uber for maids, There’s an Uber for hairSo you can Uber your braids.There’s Uber for bikes, And an Uber for gifting,
There’s an Uber for beauty, If your face needs a lifting.
There’s Uber for house painting, And Uber for car towing,
There’s Uber for clothes washing, And Uber for lawn mowing.
There’s Uber for clothes washing, And Uber for lawn mowing.
If you don’t have a green thumb, There’s Uber for flowers,
With all of these Ubers, We could drone on for hours.
With all of these Ubers, We could drone on for hours.
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| Character is doing what is right when no one is looking, but with on demand aps-its a two way street- You get reviewed by the service provider too! Glad I tipped him. |
#Uber connects you with a driver in minutes. It's an app for your mobile phone. There's a lot of companies in this space--and I decided to try the competition #Lyft, this week for the first time- My driver Moe was great.
The amazing thing is transparency- Not only do I know who the driver is and can rate him, but he knows me-and in fact I got rated by him!
There’s an Uber for groceries, For all lazy cookers,
And if you feel lonely, There’s an Uber for hookers.
And if you feel lonely, There’s an Uber for hookers.
There’s an Uber for pot, For sticky green nugs,
And an Uber for cash, To pay for your drugs.
And an Uber for cash, To pay for your drugs.
Between Uber for weed, And Uber for sex,
You name it, There’s likely an Uber for X.
You name it, There’s likely an Uber for X.
So with startup reporters Facing ever tight deadlines,
Perhaps what we need Is an Uber for headlines
Perhaps what we need Is an Uber for headlines
