BidRide Giving Uber a Chase in Milwaukee
“Great app. Easy to use, you get to pick your driver and your price. NO surge pricing!!”
AD (Android App User)
“I had great experience with the BidRide drivers. No issues with the app and easy to tip and review drivers."
Anonymous
BidRide Got Featured In
Their App Idea
BidRide is one of the rising ridesharing app in the Milwaukee region of US, owned by Logistibid. They had a series of transport and logistic businesses. However, they wanted to introduce a new concept to their carpool. And they challenged the surge price with the clean concept of bidding on fare before taking a ride.
Real time auction system
Instant cancellation and booking
Get bids from vehicles of your choice
Automated payment system
Features They Felt Difficult
Client wanted to enable a bidding process each time a rider requests a ride and several drivers can respond to it. There will be bidding over the price and when both the parties agree. As clear as it may seem, developing the bidding module was a challenge on its own.- Without proper real time communication the functioning of any ride application becomes a risk. Handling real time communication properly posed as the next big risk.
How We Made It Feasible?
A chat like page was developed with proper use of MQTT and API calls to reflect the new incoming bids. The parties could also respond to bids, accept, reject or cancel them. API calls are made at certain intervals in the bid list page to keep the user auto-updated. There had to be proper checks and state handling kept to make sure the bidding process is top-notch.- Innofied team developed a handshaking module for MQTT messages. This helped to check if MQTT messages were missed so that they could be redelivered. The handshaking module has really been of great use to stabilize the real time communication in the app.
Technologies We Chose for BidRide
BidRide Simply Loved What We Did
Even though located overseas, we never experienced delays or language barrier.
- Joe Sanfelippo, President of Logistibid Corp
An Outcome They Never Thought Of
Joe Sanfelippo, an American business and political figure of Wisconsin owns BidRide App. We developed his app from scratch and enabled a special feature to bid and ride on the fare of different vehicles. And the outcome was at par. They currently have turned into a tough compete for Uber and Lyft in the Milwaukee region. As they have formed a straight answer for surge prices and uncontrolled charges.
