Harvard Student Creates App that Lets You Schedule Uber in Advance

More convenient than a taxi and more predictable than the MBTA, Uber has quickly become a go-to transportation service for many car-less students and drunk people alike. Still, there’s always room for improvement, and leave it to Harvard to go the extra mile.

Frustrated by the amount of time he was spending waiting for an Uber, Joshua Meier ’18 developed a companion app, TaxiLater, that allows you to schedule a ride in advance. Before you sigh at the thought of learning to use yet another app guaranteed to make your life easier, we assure you, TaxiLater is simple.

By Flyby Blog

The app allows you to log in with your own Uber account and select what time you want to be picked up—whether you wish to schedule a ride months in advance or just a few hours. TaxiLater is designed to look like the Uber app, so it should be familiar to anyone who’s ever hailed a ride using Uber.

TaxiLater is still undergoing improvements based on user feedback, but we can’t complain. Meier created the app in his spare time between classes and other work, whereas our involvement with apps during free time is pretty much limited to bouncing between Instagram and Facebook.

“I am so grateful to have built TaxiLater within the Harvard ecosystem,” Meier told Flyby, adding, “It feels great to have people around the world using my project and to have friends close-by lending support. We are very lucky to be an environment that fosters such creativity.”

TaxiLater is free to download on the Apple app store—check it out next time your Uber is in traffic and you’re stuck waiting.