About
Why we built Sky Ride.
Ride-share stopped being a fair trade. The rider can’t see what their driver was paid, the driver can’t see what the rider was charged, and the number each of them gets can depend on who’s asking. We’re building the version where it’s one trip, one price, and both ends can see it.
What went wrong
A ride is a trade between two people. Somewhere along the way the apps in the middle stopped showing either of them the terms.
Two people sit in the same car and leave with two different accounts of what the trip was worth — and neither of them is shown the gap. Worse, the number each one sees can be tuned to them personally: your history, your phone, how long you’ve already been standing outside.
You can feel the result in every ride. Prices that jump for reasons nobody explains. Drivers taking work without knowing what it pays. Low trust, low pay, and a worse ride for everybody in the car.
What we’re building
Sky Ride is an honest attempt at the other version. Riders pay less and drivers earn more — that is the goal this platform is designed against and measured by, rather than a promise about any single fare.
A trip has a real cost. A platform in the middle is a real service with a real price. What isn’t real is the part that only exists because neither side could see it. We would rather take a smaller share of a trade both people can check than a larger share of one they can’t.
What that means when you book
Your fare comes from where you’re going, not from who’s asking. Two people booking the same trip in the same city are quoted the same price. There is no version of the fare that belongs to you alone.
You see that price in full before you confirm, and it doesn’t move afterwards. Nothing about it changes because it’s raining or because it’s 4am. No surge, no booking fee, no airport surcharge, no expected tip. Where your pickup is taxed, tax is a line of its own — we collect it to remit it, and it was never ours. What’s binding is in our Terms.
Drivers get the same deal from their side: what a trip pays is on the card before they take it, and what they cleared is on the receipt after. Nobody is guessing what the work is worth.
Where we are
Early, and we’d rather say so plainly. Sky Ride is a beta running in the Puget Sound, serving two airports — SeaTac and Paine Field. Narrow on purpose: an airport run is its own problem, and we’d rather solve one properly than five badly.
Everything above is how the app works today, not a roadmap. If you find somewhere it doesn’t live up to this, write to support@skyride.appand tell us — of everything you could send us, that’s the most useful.