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Show HN: SurgeProtector – escape from Uber surge pricing

by tomhschmidt on 11/10/14, 9:56 PM with 4 comments

• by minimaxir on 11/10/14, 10:01 PM

  > SurgeProtector finds locations close to you with lower surge pricing and calls an Uber directly to that spot.

  The Uber API does not support actually calling Ubers on behalf of the user (https://developer.uber.com/v1/endpoints/), which means that this will get shut down extremely quickly.

• by timjahn on 11/11/14, 7:31 PM

  Anybody used this in Chicago? Does it work well?

  Could've used this about 2 months ago when our group got hit with insane 4.5x surge pricing.

• by benigeri on 11/10/14, 10:01 PM

  I've used this twice already. It's awesome.