Fuel shortage: Zoom Gasoline, the app that notifies empty stations

In the last few days, there has been panic in France with the shortage of gasoline. Yesterday, we were talking about apps and maps that point to gas stations that are short of supplies to help you stay organized.

person who knows the most successful is undoubtedly the “Gasoline fuel comparator”. Initially this application makes it possible to compare fuel prices at different stations to find the lowest prices near the user.

But since the famine, the developers have taken the wave and offered a live inventory of gas stations in the famine. The application is an outstanding achievement.

Pierre Auclair, founder of Ripple Motion, the company behind the Essence app, might be happy. Just like its 12 employees. As they say, one’s misfortune is another’s happiness. Pierre Auclair this morning south west newspaper :

It is the largest fuel price comparison tool in France and Europe as we are now in Spain, Italy and soon Germany. Users specify prices, fix and indicate the location of stations.

Because by offering to report gas stations a supply shortage, The app attracts 350 to 500,000 users every day.

With famine coming to our location, the Loire-Atlantique, we set the fuel price to zero, opening the possibility for our user to notify the station that it no longer has its core. The station suddenly disappears from the app and is no longer available to users who want to refuel.

A hard-to-manage success

The problem for the company is that the app is so successful that the situation becomes unmanageable. Especially since the broadcaster opened a special page on mon-essence.fr in addition to the application to share the map of stations that fell short on the web. Conclusion : sometimes 15,000 visitors at the same time and servers that don’t get shocked. Pierre Auclair explains to Sud Ouest:

Usually it is a page that we do not have because there is no deficiency. Site traffic is usually almost zero because our belief is first and foremost a mobile app. As a result, the site is a bit saturated right now… We are working on it to give it some more capacity.

Obviously, such a card is a great opportunity for the company to promote itself. Many media, including ours, reported that Essence is a benchmarking application to monitor the fuel shortage situation in real time. Free ad that doesn’t inspire enthusiasm for the entrepreneur either:

This is an opportunity to publicize the app. Our hope is to serve people beyond scarcity. And that they will continue to use the application in the future.

Self actually helps to its users. Especially since the situation got worse todaya new refinery stopped spinning and more than 1,000 new stations were found dry.

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According to experts, it takes three days for a refinery to shut down and just as much to restart. Therefore, it takes a week for everything to return to normal. If it continues. By the way, be careful while driving, even if you stay connected.