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Did you build it on something like Parse?

Ridejoy has hundreds of active rides in Canada (especially around Vancouver, but also Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Ottawa) and three Canadian cities are in the Popular Destinations section of our iPhone app.

We also launched our iPhone app in Canada: http://mobilesyrup.com/2012/08/14/ridejoy-ride-sharing-app-m...

So definitely check out Ridejoy in Canada as well :)

(Good luck to gozman/LiveRides, more people trying rideshare helps everyone)

I'm also fed up with big oil.

We do show matching rides from Craigslist as a service to our users. Using an iframe means we don't need to scrape/copy the content to show it, but it still looks good/works well. CL seems fine with it, we haven't had issues with them. And we send lots of our traffic to them, not that they need it :)

Great question and thanks for linking to the snopes article de-bunking this myth.

Most Americans have shared rides in some form, whether as a carpool or a campus ride board. We incorporate a number of identity & safety features and are bringing far more transparency and accountability to ridesharing.

Like any form of public transit, there is some risk involved, but ultimately we empower our users to make informed decisions. In line with the success of Couchsurfing, Meetup and other services, we see more and more people interested in rideshare as a fun and affordable form of transportation and every week thousands of people are making the decision to share rides on Ridejoy.

Thanks so much! Hope we're able to match you with some awesome people to rideshare with!

Thanks! Longer may come down the road but some off the top of my head:

Mobile is totally different from web - small screen, on the go, harder to easily iterate after launch

Get a feel for the apps you like/aspire to be - check out cool apps and get ideas from the ones you like

Figure out what you're optimizing for - limited real estate means you need to focus on the flows that matter to you

Do multiple rounds of user testing - you are going to be surprised by what people try to do

Polish comes at the very end - easy to get ahead of yourself and you might have to throw it out