Would it be possible to create something that effectively books an Uber for a later time/date?

An example would be I know I'll need an Uber tomorrow morning at 7AM so rather than get out my phone at 6:50AM I do it the night before and it just delays the request until the morning? Perhaps even add in some push notifications or something to check that you still want to book it and all you have to do is hit yes/no.

This would be great! This is where people still hire cabs in my city--If you have an early flight, do you trust that there will be an Uber driver available? Or do you pay a little extra and call a cab service with a scheduled pickup?

The difficulty is that there's still no guarantee that an Uber would be available. It'd just take care of the request part. Would need to be some thinking around what if there's none available in the area etc.

You mean a cron/at job with curl and json?

(cron repeats, at is for one time jobs)

Effectively, yeah. Thinking from the RoR world something like sidekiq or delayed_jobs could do the same thing.

Should definitely work. I use a cron job in the winter to kick off the remote start on my wife's car through Viper/Directed's JSON API.

Glad you said it! A jacket with no tie is much more casual than a tie with no jacket.

Interesting. Thanks for the insight in to your world :)

Happy to share. :)

Pretty neat.

I chucked mine up there and will be keen to see the feedback. Also thought the way it just keeps loading is fantastic. Easy to get on a roll as @prawn mentioned.