Lyft Startup Ideas

2 years ago

In the middle of April, Lyft announced it was making $1.25 billion in revenue per quarter, with over $1 billion in cash. In the middle of May, Uber announced that it had $7.4 billion in cash.

236

2 years ago

A startup for scheduling Uber and Lyft rides

178

2 years ago

As of 2018, YC has graduated over 2,000 companies, including some of the most well-known startups in the world, including Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, Reddit, and Lyft.

171

3 years ago

A startup that trains drivers for rideshare apps like Uber and Lyft.

155

1 year ago

A bank card that pays you for every ride you take on Uber and Lyft.

154

3 years ago

A new kind of payment system that allows taxi owners to compete with Uber and Lyft. Instead of needing to call a dispatcher, riders can hail a cab in real-time and pay directly through the app.

143

3 years ago

A company that wants to streamline the hiring process for employers, letting them post jobs and give applicants a chance to respond. It’s been used by companies like Lyft and Warby Parker.

138

3 years ago

A B2B startup that helps companies like Uber and Lyft figure out how to best use their driver fleets.

137

3 years ago

A start-up that allows you to pay for your Lyft or Uber ride using the credit you get back from your credit card company’s rewards program.

131

3 years ago

A startup that makes it possible to buy, sell, and collectively organize ridesharing services, much like Uber or Lyft but for cars

131

2 years ago

A platform for carpooling driven by carpool apps like Lyft.

131

3 years ago

An AI that helps people find a good Uber or Lyft driver.

130

3 years ago

The startup aims to be a single source of research on all of the different ride-sharing apps from Uber to Lyft.

129

3 years ago

A digital “wallet” for rideshare drivers (that’s UberX, Lyft, etc.) to pay expenses like deductibles, gas and maintenance. The digital wallet eventually will allow drivers to take rides anywhere and pay their expenses without having to have cash on hand.

127

3 years ago

A platform for companies to build their own custom versions of Uber, Lyft, or GrubHub.

123

3 years ago

“A personal assistant for the last mile: an AI-powered tool that serves the last mile of travel needs of both humans and machines.” The startup, which was founded in May, seeks to take on the likes of Uber and Lyft with a new platform designed for last-mile travel.

120

2 years ago

A “customer care” app that integrates with Uber and Lyft.

119

2 years ago

A company that helps geospatial companies like Uber and Lyft better understand the best routes and pricing to reach customers by using data from their phone to track their location.

117

2 years ago

A blockchain-based platform for driving and sharing autonomous vehicles, akin to Uber and Lyft but for cars.

112

2 years ago

Combining the ease with which inter-city carpooling apps like UberPool and Lyft Line can be found with a new approach to making the rides more affordable, by adding a personal concierge to the ride to help with navigation, scheduling and other tasks.

111

2 years ago

A platform that helps customers pay for services from companies like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash through a single checkout page.

95

2 years ago

A platform for booking a ride-share with Uber or Lyft. It is a competitor to UberRush, a company founded by former Uber and Lyft employees that allows ridesharing users to book a ride from a driver without a credit card.

95

2 years ago

This startup offers a gamified service for calling Uber or Lyft, which works through the app.

95

1 year ago

Ecommerce for the sharing economy, with an internal marketplace for tasks like dog walking and house cleaning, and an external marketplace for things like carpooling or Lyft, Uber or Lyft integration.

95

2 years ago

A digital agency that helps brands like Lyft, fast-food chains, and other companies scale their marketing software and services.

87

2 years ago

A chatbot for booking rides on Uber and Lyft

86

1 month ago

A startup that lets people book a ride in an Uber or Lyft and get paid via credit card for the ride.

83

7 months ago

A start-up that hires people to drive for Uber and Lyft, providing them with a $1,000 bonus for every 5 rides.

80

2 years ago

A company that helps companies like Uber and Lyft to gain access to a large number of drivers for

79

1 year ago

A company that aims to have a tool to help companies like Uber and Lyft with their onboarding process. The startup wants to gain insights on their new drivers and riders that are more valuable than other data points.

79

1 year ago

The idea is to help companies like Uber, Lyft, and others in the ride-sharing space figure out how to spend their capital more effectively. Lyft itself is working with a number of startups to do just that.

79

1 year ago

A startup that helps consumers use Lyft in lieu of owning a car in order to save money.

78

1 year ago

An iOS app that helps users find the closest, fastest, and cheapest rides to their destination. The app uses pricing data from Uber, Lyft, and a few other companies and then puts all those estimates in one place.

74

9 months ago

A taxi app that is a hybrid of Uber and Lyft.

73

8 months ago

An on-demand service for sending delivery people. It’s the first startup to use the Lyft API to provide rides to the home of a delivery person, then send the rider a text when the order is done.

67

1 year ago

A loyalty app which gives users points towards services they want through surveys, and then rewards them with discounts at other services. The startup, which has been around for over a year, is working with over 100 brands, including Airbnb, Amazon, and Lyft.

66

1 year ago

A startup that will do what Uber and Lyft are doing, but for bikes.

66

1 year ago

A company that helps you find a ride on Uber, Lyft, and other ride sharing services.

64

1 year ago

A smartwatch app that lets you tell Siri you're on your way to work and get traffic updates along the way. The startup is building a smartwatch app that allows users to communicate with Siri and receive traffic updates. The startup also wants to integrate with Uber and Lyft.

62

1 year ago

The startup's founders have been driving customer growth for companies like Lyft, Instacart, and Delivery Hero. After the US, they're going global and they're looking to build a customer service app called Enter, which they say can help companies grow faster by building and managing customer relationships.

61

1 year ago

A platform that lets customers easily book appointments with a service provider. The startup’s clients include Airbnb, Lyft, Uber and Seamless.

60

1 year ago

A Lyft for the gig economy, this app aims to eliminate the hassles of owning a car or a car service by connecting drivers with passengers in need of a ride.

59

1 year ago

The startup aims to disrupt the Ubers and Lyfts of the world by creating an app that allows rideshare drivers to make money by making their own deliveries.

57

7 months ago

By combining artificial intelligence, machine learning, and a human expert, Remitly wants to be the Uber or Lyft for international money transfers. The company wants to make money transfer as simple as receiving a text message, and was founded in June.

57

1 year ago

A food delivery app for Lyft drivers in the US that is focused on curbside ordering and deliveries. The startup was founded in March, and will begin operations in May.

56

7 months ago

A software as a service (SaaS) company that helps businesses manage, track and monitor their drivers. Customers include Uber, Postmates and Lyft.

55

1 year ago

This is a carpooling service for drivers looking to save money on gas and time. It’s also a way for drivers to find fares for ride-share services like Uber and Lyft, as long as they’re willing to take a longer drive.

52

1 year ago

A platform to help people arrange rides, with services like Uber and Lyft but with a social component.

52

5 months ago

A mobile app that lets users summon ridesharing services using their phones, like Uber and Lyft.

52

10 months ago

A new on-demand mobile platform that helps you hire like Uber/Lyft

51

4 months ago

The Startup is developing a payments system for ride-sharing platforms such as Uber and Lyft.

51

11 months ago

A cloud-based platform for ordering deliveries, with a service that is about 70% cheaper than the traditional delivery companies and offers the same level of service. The startup plans to take on the same delivery service companies that Uber and Lyft are up against.

50

1 year ago

A Milwaukee startup that’s building a platform to help firms like Lyft and Uber make sense of the data they’re collecting on their customers. It’s a tool for taking real-time information and turning it into data models and visualizations.

49

1 year ago

A decentralized car sharing network that connects customers with vetted, vetted, and vetted drivers. The network can help in the event of an Uber or Lyft outage, and the company has 10,000 drivers and 5,000 customers in the United States.

49

1 year ago

A startup that wants to help customers find the best Uber and Lyft drivers, by letting them track their trips and view ratings and details about their drivers. They’re currently testing with 10 cities in the US, and plan to expand to the UK in the future.

47

11 months ago

Rides, a ridesharing company that focuses on providing a cheaper and friendlier alternative to Uber and Lyft. The company was founded on an idea that the majority of people want ridesharing but don’t want to pay the higher prices of Uber and Lyft. Rides is currently operating in Atlanta, GA, with plans to expand to other cities.

47

6 months ago

This is a real-time marketplace for barbers, similar to services such as Uber and Lyft. The startup wants to make getting a haircut as easy as ordering a ride, but with the added benefit of being able to share photos of the finished product.

46

5 months ago

This company is building a tool for fleet managers to manage their fleet of vehicles, such as for Uber or Lyft.

41

10 months ago

A smartphone app for finding other people to share a ride in an UberPool or Lyft Line.

39

4 months ago

The Startup is developing A payment solution for ridesharing platforms such as Uber and Lyft which accepts payments from credit cards, debit cards, prepaid cards, and mobile wallet payments.

37

9 months ago

A web-based video editor that allows you to make slideshows and share them online. The startup is working with the likes of Lyft and the National Wildlife Federation.

34

2 months ago

A tool that helps people get paid for things they do while traveling like driving for Uber or Lyft.

30

2 months ago

A startup that makes an app that lets riders book a car by scanning their smartphone. The app is meant to compete with Uber and Lyft.

28

2 months ago

A startup that lets customers request an Uber or Lyft to pick them up from bars, bars that are around the corner, or wherever they are.

28

1 month ago

An AI-powered tool to help companies like Uber and Lyft identify and fix drivers who violate the terms of their contracts.

25

2 months ago

A mobile app that lets you request Uber and Lyft cars based on your location and predicted arrival time.

21

1 month ago

A startup for shared rides. They’re taking on the Uber and Lyft models with a lower price point.

20

2 months ago

A platform that connects customers with service providers, like Uber or Lyft. The company is building a platform that will allow customers to maintain their own records and pay service providers directly, similar to a Square or Stripe credit card.

17

1 month ago

A ridesharing platform that wants to be a better version of Uber and Lyft.

17

11 days ago

RideScheduler is a ridesharing platform for drivers and riders with a mobile app designed for the traveling businessperson. They’re targeting Uber and Lyft drivers and riders, as well as travelers who have a car but need to rent a car one-time for a trip.

14

3 years ago

Idea: A directory of jobs in the gig economy, from Uber and Lyft to dog walkers and freelance writers

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Lyft Startup Ideas

In the middle of April, Lyft announced it was making $1.25 billion in revenue per quarter, with over $1 billion in cash. In the middle of May, Uber announced that it had $7.4 billion in cash.

A startup for scheduling Uber and Lyft rides

As of 2018, YC has graduated over 2,000 companies, including some of the most well-known startups in the world, including Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, Reddit, and Lyft.

A startup that trains drivers for rideshare apps like Uber and Lyft.

A bank card that pays you for every ride you take on Uber and Lyft.

A new kind of payment system that allows taxi owners to compete with Uber and Lyft. Instead of needing to call a dispatcher, riders can hail a cab in real-time and pay directly through the app.

A company that wants to streamline the hiring process for employers, letting them post jobs and give applicants a chance to respond. It’s been used by companies like Lyft and Warby Parker.

A B2B startup that helps companies like Uber and Lyft figure out how to best use their driver fleets.

A start-up that allows you to pay for your Lyft or Uber ride using the credit you get back from your credit card company’s rewards program.

A startup that makes it possible to buy, sell, and collectively organize ridesharing services, much like Uber or Lyft but for cars

A platform for carpooling driven by carpool apps like Lyft.

An AI that helps people find a good Uber or Lyft driver.

The startup aims to be a single source of research on all of the different ride-sharing apps from Uber to Lyft.

A digital “wallet” for rideshare drivers (that’s UberX, Lyft, etc.) to pay expenses like deductibles, gas and maintenance. The digital wallet eventually will allow drivers to take rides anywhere and pay their expenses without having to have cash on hand.

A platform for companies to build their own custom versions of Uber, Lyft, or GrubHub.

“A personal assistant for the last mile: an AI-powered tool that serves the last mile of travel needs of both humans and machines.” The startup, which was founded in May, seeks to take on the likes of Uber and Lyft with a new platform designed for last-mile travel.

A “customer care” app that integrates with Uber and Lyft.

A company that helps geospatial companies like Uber and Lyft better understand the best routes and pricing to reach customers by using data from their phone to track their location.

A blockchain-based platform for driving and sharing autonomous vehicles, akin to Uber and Lyft but for cars.

Combining the ease with which inter-city carpooling apps like UberPool and Lyft Line can be found with a new approach to making the rides more affordable, by adding a personal concierge to the ride to help with navigation, scheduling and other tasks.

A platform that helps customers pay for services from companies like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash through a single checkout page.

A platform for booking a ride-share with Uber or Lyft. It is a competitor to UberRush, a company founded by former Uber and Lyft employees that allows ridesharing users to book a ride from a driver without a credit card.

This startup offers a gamified service for calling Uber or Lyft, which works through the app.

Ecommerce for the sharing economy, with an internal marketplace for tasks like dog walking and house cleaning, and an external marketplace for things like carpooling or Lyft, Uber or Lyft integration.

A digital agency that helps brands like Lyft, fast-food chains, and other companies scale their marketing software and services.

A chatbot for booking rides on Uber and Lyft

A startup that lets people book a ride in an Uber or Lyft and get paid via credit card for the ride.

A start-up that hires people to drive for Uber and Lyft, providing them with a $1,000 bonus for every 5 rides.

A company that helps companies like Uber and Lyft to gain access to a large number of drivers for

A company that aims to have a tool to help companies like Uber and Lyft with their onboarding process. The startup wants to gain insights on their new drivers and riders that are more valuable than other data points.

The idea is to help companies like Uber, Lyft, and others in the ride-sharing space figure out how to spend their capital more effectively. Lyft itself is working with a number of startups to do just that.

A startup that helps consumers use Lyft in lieu of owning a car in order to save money.

An iOS app that helps users find the closest, fastest, and cheapest rides to their destination. The app uses pricing data from Uber, Lyft, and a few other companies and then puts all those estimates in one place.

A taxi app that is a hybrid of Uber and Lyft.

An on-demand service for sending delivery people. It’s the first startup to use the Lyft API to provide rides to the home of a delivery person, then send the rider a text when the order is done.

A loyalty app which gives users points towards services they want through surveys, and then rewards them with discounts at other services. The startup, which has been around for over a year, is working with over 100 brands, including Airbnb, Amazon, and Lyft.

A startup that will do what Uber and Lyft are doing, but for bikes.

A company that helps you find a ride on Uber, Lyft, and other ride sharing services.

A smartwatch app that lets you tell Siri you're on your way to work and get traffic updates along the way. The startup is building a smartwatch app that allows users to communicate with Siri and receive traffic updates. The startup also wants to integrate with Uber and Lyft.

A platform that lets customers easily book appointments with a service provider. The startup’s clients include Airbnb, Lyft, Uber and Seamless.

A Lyft for the gig economy, this app aims to eliminate the hassles of owning a car or a car service by connecting drivers with passengers in need of a ride.

The startup aims to disrupt the Ubers and Lyfts of the world by creating an app that allows rideshare drivers to make money by making their own deliveries.

By combining artificial intelligence, machine learning, and a human expert, Remitly wants to be the Uber or Lyft for international money transfers. The company wants to make money transfer as simple as receiving a text message, and was founded in June.

A food delivery app for Lyft drivers in the US that is focused on curbside ordering and deliveries. The startup was founded in March, and will begin operations in May.

A software as a service (SaaS) company that helps businesses manage, track and monitor their drivers. Customers include Uber, Postmates and Lyft.

This is a carpooling service for drivers looking to save money on gas and time. It’s also a way for drivers to find fares for ride-share services like Uber and Lyft, as long as they’re willing to take a longer drive.

A platform to help people arrange rides, with services like Uber and Lyft but with a social component.

A mobile app that lets users summon ridesharing services using their phones, like Uber and Lyft.

A new on-demand mobile platform that helps you hire like Uber/Lyft

The Startup is developing a payments system for ride-sharing platforms such as Uber and Lyft.

A cloud-based platform for ordering deliveries, with a service that is about 70% cheaper than the traditional delivery companies and offers the same level of service. The startup plans to take on the same delivery service companies that Uber and Lyft are up against.

A Milwaukee startup that’s building a platform to help firms like Lyft and Uber make sense of the data they’re collecting on their customers. It’s a tool for taking real-time information and turning it into data models and visualizations.

A decentralized car sharing network that connects customers with vetted, vetted, and vetted drivers. The network can help in the event of an Uber or Lyft outage, and the company has 10,000 drivers and 5,000 customers in the United States.

A startup that wants to help customers find the best Uber and Lyft drivers, by letting them track their trips and view ratings and details about their drivers. They’re currently testing with 10 cities in the US, and plan to expand to the UK in the future.

This is a real-time marketplace for barbers, similar to services such as Uber and Lyft. The startup wants to make getting a haircut as easy as ordering a ride, but with the added benefit of being able to share photos of the finished product.

This company is building a tool for fleet managers to manage their fleet of vehicles, such as for Uber or Lyft.

A smartphone app for finding other people to share a ride in an UberPool or Lyft Line.

The Startup is developing A payment solution for ridesharing platforms such as Uber and Lyft which accepts payments from credit cards, debit cards, prepaid cards, and mobile wallet payments.

A web-based video editor that allows you to make slideshows and share them online. The startup is working with the likes of Lyft and the National Wildlife Federation.

A tool that helps people get paid for things they do while traveling like driving for Uber or Lyft.

A startup that makes an app that lets riders book a car by scanning their smartphone. The app is meant to compete with Uber and Lyft.

A startup that lets customers request an Uber or Lyft to pick them up from bars, bars that are around the corner, or wherever they are.

An AI-powered tool to help companies like Uber and Lyft identify and fix drivers who violate the terms of their contracts.

A mobile app that lets you request Uber and Lyft cars based on your location and predicted arrival time.

A startup for shared rides. They’re taking on the Uber and Lyft models with a lower price point.

A platform that connects customers with service providers, like Uber or Lyft. The company is building a platform that will allow customers to maintain their own records and pay service providers directly, similar to a Square or Stripe credit card.

A ridesharing platform that wants to be a better version of Uber and Lyft.

RideScheduler is a ridesharing platform for drivers and riders with a mobile app designed for the traveling businessperson. They’re targeting Uber and Lyft drivers and riders, as well as travelers who have a car but need to rent a car one-time for a trip.

Idea: A directory of jobs in the gig economy, from Uber and Lyft to dog walkers and freelance writers