The idea came up from a facebook group created by one of the team members. The group was aimed at people who were willing to share car rides between Lisbon and Oporto. It reache...
The idea came up from a
facebook group created by one of the team members. The group was aimed at people who were willing to share car rides between Lisbon and Oporto. It reached nearly 7000 members in just two years.
The daily post activity is heavy (on average the group has 42 posts = 1302/month) and starts to become confusing. That's the problem we want to solve.
We have spoken with a lot of people from the group and it became clear that we needed to go further… Let's create the best portuguese carsharing platform online!
UM COCHE is a portuguese common term for "a little bit", but is "a car" as well. It was the perfect term to represent "a little bit of a car". In the end of the day, you only need a little bit of a car to make a journey.
We believe that we will revolutionize the concept of carsharing which is not popular in Portugal. There are many praises to the Facebook group, thousands of shared rides and a lot of money spared during the two years of activity! The willing to make this movement grow is huge!
It's great to see people realizing that carsharing is the way to go. It can save you money but especially it can be fun and be the link to new friendships.
You'll se that it has never been easier to get a ride to where you're going! Share a little bit of what you've got!
About the author
We have put together a passionate team about the carsharing experience and we already started to work.
The team has four members: António is a super-developer with more than 15 years of experience; David and Francisco have worked together for 2 years and are super-designers and project creative leaders; and João, the facebook group administrator, is our carsharing expert and project mentor.
André Parente
Novidades??
Caros "Um coche": apoiei o vosso projecto por crowdfunding e nunca mais soube noticias vossas. Nem um agradecimento e muito menos um contacto para receber as recompensas. Não é pelo autocolante em si... mas era simpático dar seguimento ao processo de crowdfunding até ao fim, não?
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Artigo dos Um Coche no P3 do Público
«Um Coche: aqui podes apanhar boleia e poupar na viagem»
http://p3.publico.pt/actualidade/sociedade/5837/um-coche-aqui-podes-apan...
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Pedro F Silva
Um coche!
Qual é um coche, qual é ela, não fossem estes jovens empreendedores, ias a penantes que te lixavas?
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