Building an App Like Uber: What Is the Uber App Made From?

Kateryna Abrosymova
Yalantis Product Development
8 min readMay 22, 2014

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The technology stack behind Uber for those of you looking into building Uber for X or an on-demand delivery app

Can you improve the quality of an existing service and offer it on demand? If so, you might be the next Uber.

But to develop an app like Uber and get it into the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store isn’t easy. Taking a large piece of the ridesharing market requires that you offer frictionless access, great experiences for drivers and riders, and a strong brand.

No wonder one of the first people Travis Kalanick wanted to hire after he got his big idea for Uber was a product manager (as we can see from this tweet).

This article can’t provide you with a product manager, but it can explain what has propelled Uber’s growth and what technology powers Uber’s mobile apps.

How Uber launched: the go-to-market strategy

Uber officially launched in 2010. Six months later they had around 6,000 users and had already provided about 20,000 rides.

This is what Uber’s website looked like in 2010. Image source: Business Insider

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