We spent a weekend contemplating fun uses for the Uber API. Here are a couple ideas that we abandoned - feel free to use as you wish:
* "Bar roulette" where you would hit a button, an uber would show up, then take you to a random bar sourced from Yelp.
* Last-minute ticket sales to events (e.g. in the hour before they start) that include transportation
* Having bars or clubs offer to drive people there for free and bid based on demographics of the user like an ad - e.g. "We need more people in this age range, of this gender, etc." They would set a bid, and the app would ping people that matched the criteria and offer to drive them there for free if the estimated fare was less than the bid.
That third one reads like something out of a Gibson novel. Might work best with a pre-defined group of people (e.g., models in an agency) or something similar.
There could be all kinds of uses. Imagine a product launch event - "We need to pack a room so the press is impressed. Want anybody and everybody - tell them we have free food."
* "Bar roulette" where you would hit a button, an uber would show up, then take you to a random bar sourced from Yelp.
* Last-minute ticket sales to events (e.g. in the hour before they start) that include transportation
* Having bars or clubs offer to drive people there for free and bid based on demographics of the user like an ad - e.g. "We need more people in this age range, of this gender, etc." They would set a bid, and the app would ping people that matched the criteria and offer to drive them there for free if the estimated fare was less than the bid.