Cuban Uber

[El Presidente]

Good story 

Cuban-style Uber 

A year ago, on the same week in which 3G arrived, four young graduates―two engineers, a graphic designer and a graduate in tourism―began working on an application identical to Uber.

“We found a map, we started studying design, programming and marketing. Then we started the idea, we developed the app from scratch and launched it in December of last year,” explained to EFE Claudia Cuevas, one of the architects of the Sube application, which now has more than 6,000 users and 70 drivers.

https://oncubanews.com/en/cuba/cuban-style-uber-young-entrepreneurs-determined-to-break-the-blockade/

 

 

[tigger]

Cuber!

[Nino]

I heard from @Ryan about this App and downloaded it last trip.

Still waiting to use it - problem is you have to be online to use it and that is a problem as Mobile Data is not exactly cheap in Cuba.

Good idea and I hope to use it next trip.

One thing that p###es me off though is this constant, never-ending talk of Blockade, Embargo, etc.

 

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Cubans suffer from a double blockade: the external one, caused by the U.S. financial and commercial embargo, and the internal one, derived from the reluctance of their leaders to modernize the economy and liberalize the private sector.

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“There’s much to be done in Cuba, many ways to explore with the knowledge that Cuban youth have: we are constantly studying, we have no barriers or brakes, we are always thinking about what to do to improve economically and in terms of professional development,” says the co-founder of Sube.

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Stop thinking - Go ahead and DO it.

What did Eastern Europe do to shake off their oppression ?

They got off their a##es.

Sorry for the off-topic, just fed up with the constant whining.

[Deeg]

1 hour ago, tigger said:

Cuber!

Damn - beat me to it.

[Fuzz]

16 minutes ago, Deeg said:

Damn - beat me to it.

He beat many of us to it! I'm sure that was the first thing many of us thought.

[Ryan]

I posted here about this before alright.

3G data was rolled out to some Cuba phones starting on December 8th, 2018.

Sube had their launch party in Espacios on February 14th, 2019. 2 months later. The place was packed, Valentines night is a very big night out in Cuba too.

Most people I know in Cuba use Bajanda rather than Sube for taxis though. They say it's cheaper, faster and uses less data than Sube. I think, operationally it's works slightly differently too, though I can't remember what the difference is.