The empty seat on your commute is the smartest ride in the city.
Pair My Ride is a commute-pooling platform that matches daily office commuters with verified drivers already heading the same way, at a fair, surge-free price. Our working prototype is ready to demo.
Urban India commutes alone, and pays heavily for it.
Every weekday, office corridors like Koramangala to Electronic City fill with single-occupancy vehicles on identical routes, while commuters without a car pay surge prices for the same trip.
Millions of empty seats
Most office-bound cars and bikes carry just the driver: the same road, the same hour, every weekday.
Commuting eats salaries
Cab fares surge exactly at rush hour. Solo driving means fuel, parking and wear, twice a day.
Informal carpools don't scale
WhatsApp groups and office notice boards have no verification, no fair pricing and no payment trail.
Four steps from “I need a ride” to “I'm at the office.”
Post your commute
Passengers save home and work once, then request a ride for today or set it to repeat every weekday.
Pilots offer seats
Verified drivers already making the trip publish their route, departure window and free seats.
We pair on the real road
Our engine compares actual road paths and time windows, then ranks the best pilots in seconds.
Ride, track, pay by UPI
Live ride status, SOS and ride codes on the trip. Fares settle instantly over UPI when you arrive.
Matching on the road, not just the map pin.
Most carpool apps compare start and end points. We compare the pilot's actual driving path with the passenger's trip, so a colleague 6 km away on the same highway becomes a perfect match.
- PostGIS spatial search: 8 km endpoint radius plus a 4 km corridor along the route
- Self-hosted OSRM road routing for real distances and polylines
- Weighted score across route overlap, time overlap, detour and driver trust
- Reverse matching: new pilots instantly pick up waiting passengers
A prototype architected like a real product.
Our prototype already runs on a modular monolith on Bun and PostgreSQL/PostGIS, with matching, notifications and expiry as independent BullMQ workers. When we launch, the API and the matching engine can scale separately as demand spikes at 9 AM.
An efficient fare: cost-sharing, not surge.
The pilot is already making the trip, so the fare only needs to share its cost. Riders pay a fixed per-km price by vehicle class, the pilot keeps 97%, and we take a thin 3%. There's no fleet to fund, so we don't need to charge more.
Rates are the ones implemented in our prototype backend. Final launch pricing will be validated with real commuters in our pilot corridor.
Pilots are already making the trip. The fare helps them recover fuel and running costs, so riders pay far less than a dedicated cab.
The fare depends only on distance and vehicle class. The 9 AM commute costs exactly the same as a noon trip.
Bikes, autos, hatchbacks, sedans and vans each have their own base, per-km rate and minimum fare.
The pilot keeps 97% of every fare. There is no fleet to fund and no driver incentives to pay, so we don't need a high take rate.
The rider sees the exact fare on the match card before accepting. No meters, no haggling, no surprises.
Fares and splits are computed in integer paise on the server, and settled instantly over UPI.
A working prototype, ready to demo.
We're pre-launch and bootstrapped, with no outside investors yet. Instead of slides alone, we built the core product end to end so you can see the idea working.
The prototype covers OTP login, home/work onboarding, pilot KYC with vehicle documents, ride requests, route-aware matching, ride tracking with SOS, cancellations with reasons, UPI payments (test mode) and an in-app notification inbox. It hasn't launched to the public yet, so there are no users, rides or revenue to date.
Go deeper, page by page.
The problem
Why urban commuting is broken, and why now.
The solution
The rider and pilot experience, end to end.
Matching engine
Route-aware geospatial matching and scoring.
Architecture
System design, data model and scaling path.
Business model
Pricing, take rate and unit economics.
Roadmap
What the prototype covers and the path to launch.
Help us fill every empty seat on India's commute.
We're looking for our first investors: people who believe shared, trusted, everyday mobility is the next layer of urban infrastructure, and who want to help take this prototype to launch.