Similar to Uber’s Express Pool service, when riders request a ride, Uber Bus will find other passengers traveling in the same direction. Because they’re shared rides, the cost is much lower. Once you get to the minibus, passengers use a QR code to check in and they can pay using cash.
About Uber Bus on Product Hunt
“Uber's latest venture, book a bus”
Uber Bus launched on Product Hunt on January 16th, 2019 and earned 161 upvotes and 8 comments, placing #6 on the daily leaderboard. Similar to Uber’s Express Pool service, when riders request a ride, Uber Bus will find other passengers traveling in the same direction. Because they’re shared rides, the cost is much lower. Once you get to the minibus, passengers use a QR code to check in and they can pay using cash.
On the analytics side, Uber Bus competes within Ridesharing and Transportation — topics that collectively have 10.9k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Uber Bus performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Uber Bus?
Uber Bus was hunted by Ali AbouelAtta. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Ali AbouelAtta