Gojimbo is not an app for getting a car right now. It is for the trip you already know you will take: Thursday's six a.m. flight, school every day at 7:20, the meeting across town next Tuesday.
Those trips are not like the rest. You don't request them in a hurry, you plan them. And once a trip is planned, what matters stops being "how long until I find a car" and becomes something else: that this particular trip does not fall through.
The problem on-demand apps don't solve
An on-demand ride app is built around one question: matching whoever wants to move now with the closest car. It is a hard problem and they solve it well.
But that has three consequences you don't notice on a mid-afternoon ride and you do notice at 5:30 a.m. with a flight leaving at eight:
- You get whichever car comes. You don't choose anyone. If someone you liked drove you last month, there is no way to ask for them again.
- The price is set when you accept, not when you plan. A demand spike at six in the morning is exactly when prices go up.
- A scheduled ride is a weak promise. In most cases no driver is assigned until minutes before: what gets scheduled is the search, not the trip.
And there is a fourth one, on the other side: a driver who has earned their own clients has nowhere to serve them. They coordinate over text or WhatsApp, keep track of trips wherever they can and get paid with no record. If they use the big platform, they pay a commission on a client they brought themselves.
What Gojimbo does
Two pieces, one for each side.
For riders
You book a specific person ahead of time. You open their page —through the link or QR code they gave you—, see their car, their languages and their rates, pick a slot from their real schedule, and see the total price before confirming.
That price is locked. It does not change with traffic and there is no surge: it is calculated from the actual street route and the rates that driver has published, and what you see is what you pay.
The booking goes to that driver, and they are the one who confirms it. It is not an algorithm assigning the closest car: it is a person looking at their calendar and saying yes. Booking costs nothing: Gojimbo does not charge riders anything.
For drivers
You don't have to quit your rideshare job. Gojimbo fills the slots you publish; what you do outside them is your business. You can complement it, or replace whatever part of it you prefer.
You keep 100% of the fare. There is no per-trip commission. The first month is free, and after that there is a flat fee of $20 a month. That is all it costs.
This is a difference in kind, not in percentage: with a commission, the platform earns more the more expensive your trip is, so it wants your rates up and the client to be its own rather than yours. With a flat fee it earns the same whatever you charge, and the client stays yours — so much so that the normal way someone books you is that you gave them your code.
What you set:
- Your schedule, by day of the week, with whatever time blocks you want and exceptions for specific dates.
- Your rates: by zone —airport, downtown, whatever you define— or by distance and time.
- Your rules: how late a free cancellation is allowed, how long you wait before a rider counts as a no-show, what you charge for that wait.
- Your public page, with its QR code, to hand to your clients.
- How you get paid: cash, Zelle, Pago Móvil, bank transfer or USDT. The rider pays you directly; that money never goes through us.
And you accept every trip yourself, one by one. Nothing lands on your calendar without your confirmation. Every trip is recorded with its fare, so your income bookkeeping happens without any extra work.
What it is not
Worth saying, because the category invites assumptions:
- It is not an on-demand taxi or rideshare. There is no "I need a car now" button. If you need to move in five minutes, this is not for you.
- It is not a job-dispatch app for drivers. Nobody sends you work. If you don't bring clients, Gojimbo won't bring them to you.
- It is not a marketplace with a search bar. There is no listing where you compare forty drivers by stars. The relationship starts elsewhere: someone gave you their code.
Where it is available
We are launching pilot programs in Miami, Orlando, Tulsa, Seattle, Venezuela and parts of Europe.
Each city needs its own street map to calculate routes along real streets —never in a straight line— and a minimum fare, so a city does not open until both are in place. We would rather say so than let someone sign up and find an empty screen.
Where things stand
The pilot has just started. That is why you won't find testimonials, trip counts or ratings on this site: there aren't enough yet, and putting them up would mean making them up. What you do have is the arithmetic —the 20% commission you don't pay versus the $20 fee— and you can check it with your own numbers in the calculator on the home page.
When there are real figures, they will be here.
Keep reading
- How pricing works — the fee, the trip price and the possible charges.
- Pricing and FAQ — what the fee includes and what it doesn't.
- Sign up as a driver — documents have to be verified before you can receive bookings.