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Not necessarily. For example, if you're having a parcel delivered to your home, but it arrives when you're at the office, you'd want to be notified when this ha

by bengl 16y ago

Not necessarily. For example, if you're having a parcel delivered to your home, but it arrives when you're at the office, you'd want to be notified when this happens. Maybe your significant other or roommate signed for it. Maybe no one signed for it and there will be another delivery attempt. This sort of thing happens to me all the time for packages I don't want delivered to my office. On the other hand, notification of other tracking events would be useful too. I'd make it optional to have those.

ryanelkins 16y ago
Yeah, I might like to be notified when it is actually shipped out, or maybe even when it changes locations. Often time you might have a date range so it could also be useful to know if it's at the local hub and should be delivered today if I need someone at home to sign for it. Anyways, it would sure beat digging up the email and visiting the tracking page all the time to keep up with it. I also liked the suggestion about being able to see the status of all my packages on one page across shippers. I'm sure all this complicates things for you quite a bit, as right now you don't need people to sign up or anything. You don't even need much of a website beyond what you currently have. If this version goes well I'm sure you have plans to incorporate some of this stuff, so in that regard, this seems like a great MVP.
- csarva 16y ago
  Sending alerts for other events is definitely something I've thought about as well and plan to add in some way. I haven't quite figured out the best way to enable optional features like this -- perhaps a separate email address or something in the body? As you hinted, I'd like to keep things as simple as possible and avoid signups if I can (criminal, I know), at the very least for the basic feature of being notified on delivery.
csarva 16y ago
This is my basic use case exactly -- living in an apartment building in NYC, I have packages sent home all the time. The building staff sign for and hold them, but I have no way of knowing they arrived so I can go and pick them up (no 24/7 doorman). Other possible use cases: sending gifts, work-related purchases going to various locations/offices, returning items, etc.

by bengl 16y ago

ryanelkins 16y ago

Yeah, I might like to be notified when it is actually shipped out, or maybe even when it changes locations. Often time you might have a date range so it could also be useful to know if it's at the local hub and should be delivered today if I need someone at home to sign for it. Anyways, it would sure beat digging up the email and visiting the tracking page all the time to keep up with it. I also liked the suggestion about being able to see the status of all my packages on one page across shippers. I'm sure all this complicates things for you quite a bit, as right now you don't need people to sign up or anything. You don't even need much of a website beyond what you currently have. If this version goes well I'm sure you have plans to incorporate some of this stuff, so in that regard, this seems like a great MVP.

csarva 16y ago
Sending alerts for other events is definitely something I've thought about as well and plan to add in some way. I haven't quite figured out the best way to enable optional features like this -- perhaps a separate email address or something in the body? As you hinted, I'd like to keep things as simple as possible and avoid signups if I can (criminal, I know), at the very least for the basic feature of being notified on delivery.

csarva 16y ago

This is my basic use case exactly -- living in an apartment building in NYC, I have packages sent home all the time. The building staff sign for and hold them, but I have no way of knowing they arrived so I can go and pick them up (no 24/7 doorman). Other possible use cases: sending gifts, work-related purchases going to various locations/offices, returning items, etc.