TaxiFlex

Taxiflex aims to bring some of the benefits of ride-hailing apps to the paratransit (informal transport) sector

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Inspiration

I take taxis very regularly and I'm often frustrated by their inefficiencies. By this I mean

  1. They only accept cash payments, meaning commuters often have to make an extra trip to the ATM
  2. There is very little information available to us commuters, going somewhere you've never been before is a pain because you have to ask around all the time, route information, fare prices etc are not available on the internet

What it does

Taxiflex solves both of the problems listed above by

  1. Enabling taxi drivers to accept taxi fare payments online through a frictionless checkout process using Rapyds APIs
  2. Giving commuters access to all the relevant information they need in a single app

How we built it

Taxiflex was built using the FlutterFire stack, alongside the use of the Rapyd collect API and Google maps APIs

Challenges we ran into

I'm not really a programmer, I was really trying to learn the basics for my UX design career, and as such most of my time was spent learning new things

What we learned

I learned to prioritise and set a specific scope before starting a project in case you end up just building everything that comes to mind

What's next for TaxiFlex

Some things I didn't get to finish are

  • A better trip history for drivers
  • Better record keeping for drivers
  • Making driver QR codes shareable

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