Ride-hailing is a local market problem. The app that wins your city is built for your city.
We build custom ride-hailing mobile apps for regional operators — rider app, driver app, and the dispatch infrastructure that runs the match between them. Fixed scope, fixed price.
Uber and Lyft don't serve your market the way a local operator could. You've identified the gap — school runs, medical transport, executive shuttle, campus rides. You need the actual apps, not just a good idea.
Uber and Lyft created a local market expectation that every city's underserved transportation niches still don't have a solution for. Medical non-emergency transport that's on-time and takes insurance information. Campus shuttle systems that know the class schedule. School pickup that parents can track live. Executive town car service that can be pre-booked through a corporate account. In every case, the existing players either don't serve the niche or serve it poorly — and a well-built local operator with the right app can take market share.
The technical challenge is that ride-hailing is one of the hardest categories of mobile app to build well. You have two separate apps (rider and driver) that have to work in real time. Matching logic has to be fast enough that the rider sees a driver accept within seconds. Driver location updates have to be accurate enough to track progress to pickup without lag. Payments have to support both immediate card charges and pre-authorised holds. The dispatch logic has to handle driver availability zones, vehicle types, and surge correctly.
Most "ride-hailing clone" products skip the hard parts — the real-time infrastructure, the surge model, the driver earnings trust layer — and ship something that works for a demo but falls apart in production.
Rider and driver apps on iOS and Android with real-time matching, in-app payments, and the dispatch backend your ops team needs — purpose-built for your market vertical and launch geography.
Rider app
Pickup and destination entry with Google Maps autocomplete, real-time driver ETA after match, live tracking from pickup to dropoff, fare display before confirmation, tip and rating post-ride, ride history, and corporate account billing.
Driver app
Go-online toggle, ride request accept/decline, navigation to pickup and destination, fare confirmation, earnings dashboard, and document upload for vehicle and license verification.
Dispatch and ops backend
Real-time driver location aggregation, matching algorithm (proximity + vehicle type + special requirements), surge multiplier controls, driver zone management, and live ops board for customer support.
Payments with driver payout
Stripe for rider charges and authorisation holds, Stripe Connect for driver earnings and weekly payout settlement, and corporate account invoicing for business clients.
Driver onboarding and compliance
Document upload (license, registration, insurance), background check integration (Checkr or similar), and onboarding status tracking. Built with Expo and React Native for iOS and Android, Convex for real-time location and matching, Stripe Connect, and Google Maps Platform for routing and ETA.
One honest number to start.
Fixed-scope, fixed-price. The number below is the starting point — final scope is built from your brief.
Rider and driver apps on iOS and Android with real-time matching, in-app payments, and the dispatch backend your ops team needs — purpose-built for your market vertical and launch geography.
Three steps, every time.
The same repeatable engagement on every project. No surprises, no mystery, no billable ambiguity.
Brief & discovery.
We send you questions, then get on a call. Output: a written scope with every step, feature, and integration listed.
Build & ship.
Fixed schedule, weekly reviews. No scope creep unless you change the scope — and if you do, we reprice it transparently.
Warranty & retainer.
30-day warranty on every launch. Most clients stay on a monthly retainer for ongoing features and maintenance.
Why Fixed-Price Matters Here
Ride-hailing startups are racing to get vehicles on the road before a competitor fills the gap. A fixed-price, committed-timeline build means you know your tech launch date when you're signing driver agreements and negotiating fleet deals. Variable-cost development makes launch planning impossible. Fixed price makes it concrete.
Related engagements.
Questions, answered.
We use a combination of Google Maps SDK on the driver side and a Convex real-time pub/sub layer that pushes location updates every 2 to 3 seconds to the rider app. In practice, the rider sees driver movement in near-real-time at the granularity that matters for a pickup ETA.
Yes. Pre-booking with a scheduled pickup time is standard in the medical transport and executive shuttle variants. Drivers are assigned to scheduled rides in advance with a heads-up notification before departure time.
The driver app is designed to maintain navigation even with intermittent connectivity — the Google Maps navigation caches the route. Location reporting degrades gracefully when signal drops and catches up on reconnect.
Rider app, driver app, and dispatch backend together typically run $80k–$160k depending on vehicle types, geographic complexity, and whether corporate accounts and invoicing are in phase one. Fixed-price.
14 to 20 weeks including App Store and Google Play submissions, driver onboarding flow, and ops team training.
Tell Ryel about your project.
Describe what you’re building and what outcome you need. You’ll have a written, fixed-price scope within the week.