Who we are

A driver in front of a keyboard

TachyCab was born from a dual profession, and that is perhaps what makes it relatable for those who drive. On one side is the road, its schedules, its unforeseen events; on the other is code, maps, servers. The application is the point where the two meet.

I am a driver. The profession has taught me patience, the memory of the streets, and the price of a day that does not unfold as planned.

I have practiced computer science since I was very young: out of curiosity first, then out of a desire to understand how a machine stands up. What I know, I learned by doing it.

TachyCab comes from there. From my daily travels, from what I noted after a trip, from tools I found incomplete because they had not been thought of from the driver's seat. The dual culture, road and code, is not a selling point: it is the origin of the project.

A useful tool, made by a driver

I carry this project for a simple reason: a tool useful to drivers, made by a driver. Not just another application to install, but an application that serves during the workday.

Concretely, this means writing the code when the day allows it, testing the screens in real conditions, correcting after a trip what went wrong in the morning. A feature that does not hold up in use does not stay in the application, even if it was pleasant on paper.

I wanted it to serve as provisions: what we take for the day, and which makes the work more manageable.

What it costs, and why it is paid

Nothing is free. Hosting, maps, APIs, development time: all of this has a cost, and that cost, someone pays.

If TachyCab becomes paid, it will be solely to maintain the application and the servers. To cover these expenses, and nothing more. I prefer to write it here, in black and white, rather than letting you discover it at the moment you subscribe.

Development requires meticulousness. A poorly calibrated map, a route calculation off by a kilometer, and the tool loses its raison d'être.

What this project is not

This is not a commercial promise. I promise neither a miracle, nor fortune, nor that the application will replace the judgment of the one who drives.

It is work, resumed every week, with its errors and its corrections. If the tool is useful to you, all the better: that is its only ambition.