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Australia's taxi app / reconstructed homepage

Taxis you can count on.

Before rideshare became ordinary, goCatch connected passengers directly with nearby taxis — live location, a known driver, and payment inside the app.

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available taxis / live

01Book in seconds

Request a nearby taxi without working through a call centre.

02Track the taxi

See the car approach and know who is picking you up.

03Pay in the app

A complete trip from booking through to payment.

04Call the driver

Direct communication when the pickup needed a little context.

my part in it

A real-world system, moving through a city.

I led product and engineering through a formative stretch of goCatch. The interesting work lived between the screens: location, dispatch, payments, driver supply, and the sharp edges that appear when software meets a person waiting on a kerb.

It was an early lesson in building for consequence. A button could move a car across Sydney, but only if the whole system earned trust.

chapter
2011—2015
focus
product + engineering
context
transport / location / payments