So by June 30 RideSearch will be officially shut down. My current
mapping service is expiring and taking the time to switch services
will just prolong the inevitable. So that will be it. Pride and
passion have kept it going for way too long. There will be many
regrets, but putting a nail in it will give me closure.

So my next steps will be to write a farewell message on the blog and
maybe send out a farewell message to my 9600 users recommending a
competitor.

As I look back I can see my number one mistake was pride. I thought I
could do it all. I also thought I could spend it all to success and by
the time I had a solid profitable business model I had lost my
passion. I learned way too many lessons the hard way.

In the end I will be left with 30,000 carpool cards and a $2500
backdrop for conventions. I suppose I could recycle them all. Thus
returning it back to the Earth where it belongs. Time to move on.

Brian Bass
Creator of RideSearch.com and
RideSearch.biz
"Carpool for Better Tomorrow"

http://ridesearch.com
http://ridesearch.biz