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What you need to know before you begin marketing to developers(aws.amazon.com)
2 points by mylifeisshan 10y ago|0 comments
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by mylifeisshan 10y ago
Great idea! When we're ready to share the stats we'll definitely do something like that.
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by mylifeisshan 10y ago
Hey sedzia - from shippo here, saw your comment. We actually just published this piece on Mattermark on how we sustained the business and build up our API in the early days. https://mattermark.com/focused-long-tail-get-tract
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by mylifeisshan 10y ago
Hi, Shan from Shippo here! We power applications like this by helping them connect to multiple shipping carriers from one API to compare rates, print labels, track shipments etc. Through the combined volume we get through the platform we al
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by mylifeisshan 10y ago
Yes, this should be continually updated (since it's (for the most part) pull from the same API that they have on their own tracking sites). It won't ever say "this is later than expected" so you'd need to cache the
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by mylifeisshan 10y ago
We get that data from the carriers directly at the moment.
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by mylifeisshan 10y ago
Our product is the API and we’re very much focusing on letting developers build on top of it. Comparing shipping APIs is like an iceberg, you need to look below the water to see the difference. Let's start with the technical stuff. 1.
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by mylifeisshan 10y ago
Yes, from Shippo here. Will shoot you an email. :) edit: if anyone else would like to chat, sales@goshippo.com is the best place to get to us. That goes directly to a few of our inboxes, so we're get back to you in no time.
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by mylifeisshan 10y ago
Yup that's it! (You'd need to sign up to access the app, but that's free to do.)
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by mylifeisshan 10y ago
Actually! We do offer a web interface for this exact thing. Many of our customers are small businesses who don't have developers to integrate the API, so we built a dashboard for them to compare shipping prices, print labels, and track
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by mylifeisshan 10y ago
Shippo | San Francisco/SOMA | Onsite, Visa | Full-time | http://www.goshippo.com Shippo is a shipping API company that connects e-commerce businesses and marketplaces to multiple shipping carriers from one place. Our API po
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Are Your PagerDuty Alerts Misleading You? 3 Metrics to Track Today(goshippo.com)
1 points by mylifeisshan 10y ago|0 comments
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by mylifeisshan 10y ago
Glad that you're addressing the whole shipping industry in your question here! Shippo customers vary pretty widely. Many inventory and warehouse management systems actually use our API to get the address validation, shipping integratio
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by mylifeisshan 10y ago
Our guess is that: 1) Seller convenience, you don't necessarily need to pack up a box since it's being hand-delivered. Whereas with UPS/FedEx, you'll have to put something in a box so that it doesn't get destroyed d
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Shippo's learnings from integrating the UberRUSH API(goshippo.com)
28 points by mylifeisshan 10y ago|5 comments