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Uber Driver API

Developer Tools — A new API for developers to make driving more rewarding [Ridesharing, API, On-Demand]
Developer Toolsest. 2016
▲ Rising
Category standing real
1th pctl · Developer Tools
15.7
Signal score
0–100 composite · real
#4,983
Category rank
of 7,723 · real
1th
Universe percentile
vs 79,105 modeled · real
12%
Mortality P(dead)
model est. · model est.

Signal trajectory

real

Signal 6.114.0 across 31 readings (+7.9). Composite of press, GitHub velocity, community heat, liveness and funding.

Cross-sectional profile

percentile rank vs 79,105 modeled products
Signal (universe) real
1
Signal (category) real
1
Profile maturity real
1
Tag breadth real
29
Network position sparse
0
Press footprint sparse
0

Percentiles computed over the modeled cohort (embedding + signal + tags). Sparse dimensions — network and press — reflect that most products have zero, so a single edge or mention lifts the rank; read those with the coverage flag.

Mortality outlook

model estimate
12%
P(inactive)
Low risk
Higher risk than 20% of the universe.

This is a model estimate, not a verdict. 78,505 of the 79,105 modeled products are unlabeled and scored by the model only.

  • LightGBM · binary mortality (dead vs surviving)
  • Held-out AUC 0.71 · CV AUC 0.79 ± 0.05 · Brier 0.21
  • Trained on 600 verified labels (150 dead / 450 surviving)
  • Leakage-guarded: excludes status, discontinued_year, profile_maturity
  • Top drivers: tag breadth, signal, vintage, liveness, business model

n=600 is thin → 95% CI on AUC ≈ ±0.10. Treat as a directional signal, not a calibrated probability.

Analyst read

generated from the metrics above · no external narrative

Uber Driver API sits in the 1th percentile of Launch Sentinel's 79,105-product universe by signal, ranked #4,983 of 7,723 in Developer Tools. The mortality model puts its probability of going inactive at 12% — a model estimate with a wide confidence band. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags. Signal momentum is positive (WoW +44.8).

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisSignalP(dead)
AMZ.Codesdev-toolssimilar22.960%
Me APIdev-toolssimilar15.765%
Magician-ContractsToolsdev-toolssimilar32.98%
RestFQLdev-toolssimilar32.940%
Word to Word Translator APIdev-toolssimilar30.040%
InboxSDKdev-toolssimilar18.667%
GenericScoreboardAPIdev-toolssimilar30.040%
choppingboard.recipesdev-toolssimilar15.780%

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Signal & P(dead) are real / model.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierfading
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

real

6 disclosed funding rounds on record, 3 founders resolved. See the full cap table on the product profile →