The thing with cool new ideas, is that you can be positive that at the time the light bulb first glowed above your head it also happened elsewhere on the planet.In this interconnected world, this means you have a very short space of time to bring that idea to reality. Either that, or a big wallet to fund its protection.
Cooreea has been on a low fuse burn uptake now for almost a year, and was conceived nearly four years ago. So it is only natural that it is effectively launching in Germany at the peak of similar start ups. The race now, is not to show off about the originality or not of the idea - but to find real people who can find a real use for the system.
Peer to peer transport, rideshare, is exploding in Germany. Largely thanks to various systems proving over the last 10 years that the German culture actually supports the idea and has a use for it. It must also have something to do with the lowering cost of web development and people enjoying working on social applications.
As it is in Germany at the moment...
- www.mitfahrgelegenheit.de
These guys are the incumbent free online connecting site. They have a good reputation but have failed it seems to upgrade their offering in a way you might expect - trust systems and procedures for increasing the quality of the agreements made. A big complaint is people failing to pick up passengers when agreed upon - and there be no process to change this. - www.mitfahrzentrale.de
A similar system but requires payment to view details. - www.mitreisen.net
A new kid on the block? They seem a little more event focused...we need to do some more research on that one :-) - www.mifaz.de
Cripes - we only just found this one...seems to be more affiliated with local regions... - www.cooreea.com
Us! The first to try and incorporate freighting things as well as people. And possibly the most 'Euro wide' focused
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