Whistle

[john m]

To get a taxi app to work drivers need to take the jobs coming in, even if they are further away. Not just 30 drivers. All drivers would have to. We had some drivers doing 20 jobs per week. If all drivers were pushing Whistle and taking the jobs, of course it would have worked. It is a real shame for the drivers who doing those jobs and were pushing it. Now there is no orders, cause everyone else did not do the same. They were left out on their own trying to push it as other drivers decided to work for bonus’ and street. That’s fine, but your bonuses there buried Whistle. You earned your money those weeks and helped kill the project made to help you.

The 30 drivers went out of their way to take the jobs ! Did you ?

It was a waste of 50 euro if you did not turn on the app and take the jobs that were coming in.

Some drivers claiming they have the answer now. They did not even do 1 single job with Whistle.

About the 50 euro. It was spent along with much higher amounts invested. All of it was spent. As explained, if we all didn’t take the jobs coming in, of course it was a waste of time !!!

No one is going to spend another few hundred thousand again to help drivers. It was a once off, and the chance was lost by not taking the customers that were ordering.

That’s what happened with Whistle. Drivers did not push it, and the same 30 drivers kept taking the work, but no one else did. Anyone got 100 thousand to kick it off again? Would drivers take the jobs if you did spend it? By the way the total requests for taxis was 41,000. We competed 10% of them.

[john m]

Got this from a colleague in another place I thought you might like to be informed

[mercenary for hire]

Ermy ya bollix what other place..he was three years too late anyway.Flag should do better.

[Rat Catcher]

Is the meeting to clarify ownership/corporate structure cancelled?

[john m]

Ermy ya bollix what other place..he was three years too late anyway.Flag should do better.

 No they wont .What have they got to attract the CUSTOMERS .There is a huge difference between building an app and running a business .PS The other place is $3"65421e Fucking Dyslexia does that some times .

[mercenary for hire]

Just thinking if Mytaxi were to start from scratch tomorrow I doubt they'd have as much success as they currently enjoy considering how much busier it is.We'd probably tell them to get stuffed too.

I wonder if the 30 lads working Whistle had been put off the Mytaxi app.

[john m]

Iposted this in the other place    In a different place on the tinternet .We discussed more apps I am not in favour of more taxi apps as Drivers will ultimately pay .If passengers have no penelty for Hailing then if they have two or three apps they will hit them all and we will be running around like headless chickens chasing jobs that are already gone .Mytaxi /Hailo .can be spoken to I know of one driver who met them with a list of updates and when he suggested reintroducing the PUC they said they didnt think the customers would stand for it but asked if there was a way to let them know .Then an email was sent to them pointing out that the only way they had of retaining drivers was to reintroduce the PUC because if they did not then the next app provider would and ALL as in EVERY driver would switch to the new provider .Mytaxi is the largest app that gives US the drivers a certain level of power over them .THEY HAVE TOO MUCH TO LOSE by messing with us .Think about it look on them as business partners whats good for them is good for us and whats good for us is good for them .Im sure if they were to reduce the comission to 10% and offer nearest car the job and do away with that Ambassador Crap more jobs would get covered and more drivers would run the app .

[john m]

I first posted this whensomebody suggested Hailo invested big ...Hailo did not put their money in .They got over 50 million from drivers who did not charge the PUC who offered free waiting time .Whistle like FLAG will fai for one simple reason .What have they got to attract the passengers .Hailo had PUC free and free waiting .

[mercenary for hire]

10% is still too high.Maybe we need a sliding scale starting at ten then reducing depending on work covered like Flag.I think the volume of card work will be their biggest hurdle in the next few years.As soon as someone gets an audit there will be a scatter back to the ranks.

Maybe someone will start a rumour and spoil the party.I haven't heard of a driver getting called in to Revenue in ages.

[Rat Catcher]

Hail0 raised over US$100,000,000 investment, erm. When it was rescued by Daimler it hadn't a pot to piss in.

[john m]

10% is still too high.Maybe we need a sliding scale starting at ten then reducing depending on work covered like Flag.I think the volume of card work will be their biggest hurdle in the next few years.As soon as someone gets an audit there will be a scatter back to the ranks.

Why would card charges matter if your honest and pay your way .If you consider the costs of running an app the tec staff and the sales staff and office staff I dont think 10% is unreasonable .FFS has hell frozen over ME defending Mytaxi/Hailo

[mercenary for hire]

If they've enough cash to be incentivising new entrants you know they're doing too well.

[john m]

Hail0 raised over US$100,000,000 investment, erm. When it was rescued by Daimler it hadn't a pot to piss in.

Venture capital Rodent badly run as I pointed out to the Big Chief in an Emotional phone call .But without the co operation of Irish drivers the Irish business would of tanked

[john m]

If they've enough cash to be incentivising new entrants you know they're doing too well.

Your giving this mirror vision Merc If they were doing well they wouldnt need to incentivise new entrants in to cover work .

[mercenary for hire]

I don't think toppling mytaxi would be an impossible feat...We got close to closing them down just before they caved on the PUC.Maybe the right app hasn't arrived yet.Flag have the right idea playing the fairness card.