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World Taximeter: Find out your fare before you ride

World Taximeter gives you an estimate of the cost of a taxi ride in cities worldwide. Currently they support Barcelona, London, Madrid, New York, Prague, Rome and San Francisco with more cities including Paris to follow. There is even a mobile application for your phone when your on the go. This great little web application was started by three friends from Spain out of a general need.

According to Gerardo Robledillo, one of the co-founders and developers, “World Taximeter came to be when Jose (Lorenzo) was making a trip to NYC and the days before the trip he was trying to find out how much a taxi from the airport to his hotel would cost him. He wanted to know how much money he should have ready for the taxi”. Jose was also trying to avoid being ripped off by the cabbies. He couldn’t find anything that would help him with this problem so he decided to solve it by building such a solution.

When Jose met with Gerardo, one of his developer friends, he told him of his idea on a Friday and that Saturday, Gerardo built the first prototype of the site. He showed it to Jose on Sunday. Monday they told Dani Jimenez, an R&D Manager, and he got so excited he decided he would like to help. Continue…