kdeorah

6 ms·

1.
by kdeorah 6y ago
Congrats on the call out by Point Free, authors of the functional architecture you are using. https://twitter.com/pointfreeco/status/1266397563004915712
2.
by kdeorah 7y ago
Bike-pooling and carpooling are taking off quite a bit in Asia (at the expense of Uber). Scooters and bikes are doing well in US and EU. There are more apps to be built for sure... It's the beginning, not the end.
3.
by kdeorah 7y ago
How do you calculate ETAs? Do you use Google Maps?
4.
by kdeorah 7y ago
1. You don’t have to pay Google :-) 2. Google packages the on-device navigation and places experience for ridesharing, while this repo is focused on the location tracking aspect and how that experience is managed in the cloud.
5.
by kdeorah 7y ago
ah that's interesting. we've seen that sales people don't like being tracked, they like to perform. service teams on the other hand like stuff being automated and get more efficient. thanks for the insight though. most unexpe
6.
by kdeorah 7y ago
@kishanht ridesharing is a relatable metaphor for any two sided network with moving supply on one side, being matched with dynamic demand on the other. @Charles_tse thanks for going through the Github repos. this is indeed a generic on-dema
7.
by kdeorah 7y ago
good question, main goal was to get the project up and running quickly. guess for the frontend there's less need for it. the backend project uses localtunnel to consume webhooks while testing locally. ngrok looks great!
8.
by kdeorah 7y ago
Yes you could use MapTiler or Mapbox or a React component for any other map. Google is most popular and therefore added to sample. Heroku is the easiest to get up and running with. PaaS over raw store/compute when you are getting start
9.
by kdeorah 7y ago
Smartphone is where the work app sits. Making the app location aware serves a diff need than vehicle connected telematics. The worlds converge a bit but tandem is more the norm than replacement.
10.
by kdeorah 7y ago
Yes look us up here: https://github.com/hypertrack
11.
by kdeorah 7y ago
Does Uber track the ride or the driver? App users are carrying out work and the business wants to track work. Asset track and telematics are product categories used in the industry where work is on the move. This app belongs in the same buc
12.
by kdeorah 7y ago
We built this app to dogfood our location tracking platform. Places visited, commutes taken, walks to lunches, drives to meetings … really the timeline of movement from place to place. In the end, we had built a number of useful backend lib
13.
Show HN: NextJS + Node.js library for location tracking of business assets(github.com)
33 points by kdeorah 7y ago|19 comments
14.
by kdeorah 7y ago
Agree that serverless is a buzzword here, just as data science and machine learning have now become. It is about taming greater complexity at lower cost, and at increasingly more granular levels.
15.
by kdeorah 7y ago
Not using EC2 directly, though AWS breaks that down cost with a line item for EC2. Many tables in DynamoDB. Two out of those are most used (equally).
16.
by kdeorah 7y ago
That's exactly right. Background location tracking leads to constant traffic. Not running into cold starts as an issue.
17.
by kdeorah 7y ago
Top 3 are EC2, DynamoDB and Lambda.
18.
by kdeorah 7y ago
We haven't hit any scaling issues yet. GraphQL is nice. It's really about getting data directly from DynamoDB and Aurora to an end point that Android/iOS/React-JS can query and subscribe to. Apache Velocity Template Lang
19.
by kdeorah 7y ago
Ah yes. The engineer would tell you we can move when we want. The manager would tell you it is harder than it looks. Management would tell you it will never happen. :-) See it as reducing startup risk and deferring the payment to when you b
20.
by kdeorah 7y ago
Good question. At 100x, probably not. At 10x, yes would be better than managing services on our own. By that time, we would have a better prioritized list of which services to self-manage and which ones to leave to AWS. Are you specifically
21.
How we built a serverless architecture with AWS(hypertrack.com)
114 points by kdeorah 7y ago|67 comments
22.
Android makes it easier for developers to detect drives and activity changes(android-developers.googleblog.com)
2 points by kdeorah 9y ago|0 comments
23.
by kdeorah 9y ago
Coming up in part 4 of the movement series. Will be a post dedicated to battery drain for movement tracking.
24.
Complexity of generating movement data with location/activity API on Android/iOS(hypertrack.com)
5 points by kdeorah 9y ago|2 comments
25.
by kdeorah 9y ago
Hey Egbert, found your post useful. I have worked with the good folks at Stripe Connect as an early user (Pay with OpenTable). The Uber-for-X in a day package makes a ton of sense. Needs location, messaging, payments, perhaps an order manag
26.
Show HN: Activity tracking and live location sharing app(github.com)
11 points by kdeorah 9y ago|0 comments
27.
by kdeorah 9y ago
Ouch! A recent content reorg led to the trailing html getting nuked. Use this: https://www.hypertrack.com/faq . Fixing it on the blog... Thanks.
28.
by kdeorah 9y ago
Yea sure is. There is only so much of the world that Uber will capture even as the largest in the space. For everything else, the world would need a way to use a location stack that can compete with the might of Uber, no?
29.
by kdeorah 9y ago
Thanks Chris. This is Kashyap, HyperTrack's founder/ceo. Your work with Uber APIs and Trip Experiences was awesome and remains an inspiration. I would love to see an integration between HyperTrack and Trip Experiences. When we sta
30.
by kdeorah 9y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I am the HyperTrack founder. The customer you are referring to is still using us and volumes are growing. We pushed out a major re-architecture in March 2017. The release added a key dimension to the accuracy model

More ›