Entering an Existing Regulated Market

Monday, October 14th 2024

I have been exploring creating a blockchain protocol that would support global micro transit, focusing on the commuter experience.

There are centralized software providers that are incumbents.

So I'm working through the idea maze of whether I can still enter this market, one that probably doesn't have enough direct data to do the analysis.

So as I say this, perhaps the advantage that I need is to get this data and figure out how to get it out there to as many people as possible.

Perhaps it is to offer this data collection for free to transit agencies as a way to get into a relationship with them.

One way I could do this would be to create the app that would crowd source such behavior and find ways to perhaps work with the largest employers and offer to provide such data.

But in addition to data, we would be able to spin up a sustainable commute service.

This might be a much better competitor advantage, because like many things, it is bottom-up and data-driven.

And once I have data, I can probably be so much more effective.

It still feels like a bit of a slog, but perhaps the bottom-up retail oriented could be an advantage for crypto.

The crypto enablement and figure out some kind of token incentive.

Let's think about what this free mobile app needs to do.

Input a home address and time range for leaving
Input a company address and time range for leaving
A way to incentivize them sharing on things like NextDoor and Reddit

What is the crypto part?

Maybe it allows someone to "invest" in a route as routes start to get mapped out with ML.

Which means that they will get some kind of incentive?

Okay this seems doable, what is a simple sketch?

First Pass Sketches

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