French carpooling app Ynstant, a leader in short-distance daily rides, tackles location challenges with Google Maps Platform. Discover how Ynstant enhanced user experience, improved efficiency, and gained operational control through this collaboration.
Business Challenge
Ynstant facilitates daily carpooling for everyday travel on France’s mainland and overseas. This innovative app offers drivers an opportunity to earn money and passengers a convenient way to travel, all while contributing to environmental sustainability.
Ynstant stands out from other applications in the market by enabling users to carpool daily over short distances and encouraging drivers to make their routes available to other users. The platform’s advanced matching technology makes pairing drivers and passengers easy. Unlike other car-sharing solutions that require advanced planning, Ynstant helps users find last-minute carpooling options without scheduling or detouring constraints.
As one of France’s top 5 carpooling apps, Ynstant carries out several tens of thousands carpools each month. To elevate its services for improved user experience, Ynstant sought advanced technology for refining its address and location search functionalities.
Benefits
- Advanced operational control
- Expanded route availability
- Improved efficiency with real-time updates
“Working with Woolpert has enabled us to dramatically improve the experience we offer our users, while mastering the use of Google products.”
- Théophile Adenot, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Ynstant
Working With Woolpert
Woolpert Digital Innovations conducted an in-depth business case study to compare Ynstant’s former technology and Google Maps Platform. This study identified how switching to Google could provide Ynstant with significant economic gains and opportunities for growth. After Ynstant selected Google, Woolpert provided implementation services. Ynstant Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer Théophile Adenot said, “Working with Woolpert has enabled us to dramatically improve the experience we offer our users, while mastering the use of Google products.”
The Solution
By integrating a broad suite of Google offerings, Ynstant’s quality and user experience enhanced dramatically. The team refined Ynstant’s autocomplete functionality, resulting in the ability to predict users’ intended words with greater precision and adapt to unique typing habits over time. The team also added location-based features from Google Maps Platform to display real-time maps and more routes. With this update, users can enjoy a seamless and interactive mapping experience with the added convenience of receiving up-to-the-minute route information tailored to their current location.
During the project, Woolpert proactively monitored Ynstant’s Google Cloud and Google Maps Platform usage. This resulted in identifying a coding error that generated overconsumption and therefore costs impacting their margin. The technical teams quickly resolved this issue, thus helping Ynstant to reduce its bill.
The implementation of Google technologies has helped Ynstant better control operations with improved efficiency.
