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Cratejoy is basically a shopify clone so they got the software side covered. The hardest part is still shipping. When I looked into this the shipping was the
by alaskamiller 11y ago
Cratejoy is basically a shopify clone so they got the software side covered.
The hardest part is still shipping.
When I looked into this the shipping was the killer, it eats up all possible margins until you get to scale. I learned about how FedEx and UPS works and how they handle last mile deliveries with the USPS and so on so forth.
Shyp is basically Postmate arbitraging on a national shipping account.
Amazon FBA is basically just Amazon arbitraging on Amazon.
That's the opportunity right there. Being somewhere in between Shyp and Amazon FBA. They call it 3PL, third party logistics provider.
You see that problem getting written about quite often. Everyone thinks they can solve it themselves but there's not quite a dedicated modern solutions provider.
But after working for a physical products company operating on a national level the only thing I've learned is that automating sending thousands of packages anywhere consistently is hard as all heck.