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Show HN: Paccurate – An API to put things in other things
- cartonzshill 6y agoHi folks. Paccurate is our first product after working freelance in the logistics tech space for 5 years. The business has been off to a great start, but we've had the most fun seeing the API used in hackathons and other creative venues. Eager to see what applications HN can come up with. Quickstart: Just paste this in your terminal. curl -X POST -d '{ "itemSets": [{ "refId": 0, "dimensions": {"x": 5.5, "y": 6, "z": 6}, "quantity": 3 }], "boxTypeSets":["fedex"] }' api.paccurate.io/
- verycleanpants 6y agoWhat is this that I'm looking at in the response?
- cartonzshill 6y agoThere's some deprecated gubbins in there mostly having to do with styling the box images. You can set "includeScripts" to "false" to omit them. What's left is a list of items and what boxes they go in, as well as the SVGs that show how to pack them. Thanks for trying it out!
- cartonzshill 6y agoFor the lazy: curl -X POST -d '{ "includeScripts": false, "itemSets": [{ "refId": 0, "dimensions": {"x": 5.5, "y": 6, "z": 6}, "quantity": 3 }], "boxTypeSets":["fedex"] }' api.paccurate.io/
- adamfeldman 6y agoWhat's the minimal .html file required to turn the contents of the "svgs" key into something I can look at?
- cartonzshill 6y agoThe <figure> element should just work inside a body tag. To pretty it up though you will need some css targeting some of the child elements. For example, to make the container have a dashed border like we have, you would do: line.volume-line { stroke: #666; stroke-dasharray: 2,1; stroke-width: 1; }
- adamfeldman 6y agoThanks. I was also having trouble figuring out how to decode the svg figure element into plaintext I can throw into a text editor and open in the browser. (I don't have any svg experience). I checked the docs and switched the imageFormat to png and was able to see the render. It's awesome that with svg I could style elements of the provided image however I want!
- cartonzshill 6y agoThanks! Yeah you can do some cool things with animating the svgs too, like show animated packing instructions.
- adamfeldman 6y agoThis looks nice! ~3 years ago I was still working in SMB/SME ecommerce IT and made an aborted attempt at building automatic small-parcel rate shopping and optimization on top of https://www.teapplix.com https://www.teapplix.com. Even today it seems the big* SMB/SME players don't offer proper rate optimization tools, likely due to contractual relationships with the carriers which restrict that functionality. *Stamps.com owns most of the major SMB/SME shipping tools: Stamps.com, Endicia, ShipStation, ShippingEasy, ShipWorks (+ upmarket tools like ShipEngine and Metapack and maybe more)
- cartonzshill 6y agoThat's very interesting. We haven't had too much pushback along those lines at least as we make our way upmarket. It might be because we aren't doing rating, just predictive packing.