http://usestands.com/
"Hack Stand" is an app for Licensed London Black Taxi Cab drivers. It is the beta version that is available in app store (for iphone only at the moment until it gets full up and running). The app is currently waiting for final approval from Apple, in the meantime the developer is adding a few features. What I would like is for my fellow drivers & all London Black Taxi Cab users to download the app and sign up ready for the first release.
What is it? The app is a way for customers to "virtually hail" a London Taxi. The customer will open the app, the driver will see the customer as an icon on a map, then all the driver has to do is go and pick them up. It will be a very basic app to start with, but will grow and develop as it gets used, and the developer receives feedback from drivers & customers.
Drivers. the app will be totally free until it a price plan is worked out (and the app actually starts to bring many customers and taxis together). Don't worry that it will be as expensive as radio circuits, it will be nothing like that. There won't be building costs, equipment costs, large staff costs etc... to cover; just a small amount to make back development costs, future updates and developments, and of course the some wages. Drivers will of course be able to eventually suggest how the charges will work - either by job, subscription, or some other method.
As a driver you are not signing up to only be part of this and no other organisation or app, you are free to use any other method to get work, this will just be another method for you to find work. I myself have all the current taxi apps on my phone, am part of TLC, and am on a radio circuit - none of them restricts me from using any other method to find work.
It still won't be very clear until the app is out and I make a video for Youtube, but the video will show the app in action, and, a tutorial for bothe drivers and customers.
So please, for now, just download the app and register ready, and the rest will follow.
