Uber's platform is their moat. Yours can be too.
We build custom ride-hailing platforms — passenger apps, driver apps, real-time dispatch engines, dynamic pricing systems, and the operations dashboard that manages the fleet. Fixed scope, fixed price.
Generic trip-booking integrations (Lyft API, Uber API) put you in someone else's supply chain. A custom ride platform gives you the driver relationships, the pricing control, and the market ownership that makes building a regional or vertical ride business worth doing.
The barrier to building a ride-hailing business has never been lower on the technology side — maps APIs, payment processors, and cloud infrastructure are all commodity. The barrier is the simultaneous supply-demand problem: you need drivers to have passengers, and passengers to attract drivers. The technology needs to handle the three-way real-time coordination between passenger, driver, and platform while that supply-demand balance is being built.
What most early-stage ride companies get wrong is underestimating the dispatch engine. Matching a passenger to the nearest available driver who accepts the trip sounds simple. In practice it requires ETA calculation, driver acceptance logic, fallback to the next driver if the first declines, and reassignment if the driver is still en route but the passenger cancels. Add surge pricing (which needs to account for the real supply-demand ratio in real time, not just a hardcoded multiplier), and the dispatch and pricing layer becomes the core technical challenge of the platform.
Regional and vertical ride businesses (airport shuttles, corporate transportation, non-emergency medical transport, event logistics) have a real advantage over national platforms: they can build driver loyalty, price intelligently within their market, and provide service quality that a national platform can't offer. Custom software that supports that differentiation — driver profiles, service tiers, scheduled booking, enterprise account management — is what makes the business defensible.
A complete ride-hailing platform: passenger booking app, driver app with earnings dashboard, intelligent dispatch, surge pricing engine, and the operations console that manages your entire fleet in real time.
Passenger app (React Native — iOS + Android)
Destination entry with Google Maps autocomplete, fare estimate with service tier selection, driver match with ETA, real-time driver tracking map, trip status notifications, tip and rating on completion. Saved payment methods via Stripe.
Driver app (React Native — iOS + Android)
Trip request with passenger details, pickup location, and estimated fare. Accept/decline with countdown. Turn-by-turn navigation. Earnings tracker by trip, day, and week. Driver status (online/offline) control.
Real-time dispatch engine
Passenger-to-driver matching based on proximity, acceptance rate weighting, and service tier. Driver acceptance workflow with timeout and fallback to next match. Trip state machine: requested → accepted → en route → arrived → in progress → completed.
Dynamic pricing
Supply-demand ratio calculation by zone in configurable time windows. Surge multiplier applied to base fare when driver availability falls below threshold. Surge displayed to passenger before confirmation. Configurable cap on surge multiplier.
Operations and fleet console
Live map view of all drivers (online, on trip, idle) and all active trips. Surge zone visualisation. Driver verification and onboarding. Earnings and payout management. Trip history with dispute management. Built on React Native, Next.js for operations console, Convex or Supabase for real-time state, Stripe Connect for payments and driver payouts, 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.
A complete ride-hailing platform: passenger booking app, driver app with earnings dashboard, intelligent dispatch, surge pricing engine, and the operations console that manages your entire fleet in real time.
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
Building a ride-hailing platform requires four production-quality applications that need to work together in real time from day one. Fixed scope and fixed price is the only way to build that kind of platform with budget confidence. Open-ended hourly work on a multi-surface real-time application is how projects double in cost before launch.
Related engagements.
Questions, answered.
Driver onboarding includes identity verification, license capture, vehicle registration, and background check submission. We integrate with Checkr for background checks and Persona for identity verification. The ops console manages onboarding status for each applicant.
Yes — scheduled trips are created with a future pickup time. The dispatch engine assigns a driver a configurable time window before the scheduled pickup. The passenger receives driver details when assignment is confirmed.
Surge is shown as a fare multiplier ("1.8x") in the fare estimate screen before the passenger confirms the trip. A confirmation dialog requires explicit acceptance of the surged fare. If the passenger declines, the request is cancelled.
Passenger app, driver app, dispatch engine, dynamic pricing, and operations console typically runs $70k–$130k. Scheduled bookings, enterprise account management, and multi-city configuration add scope. Fixed-price.
18 to 24 weeks for a production ride platform with all surfaces and real-time dispatch.
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.