kevingibbon

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by kevingibbon 5y ago
My company has used them before. I thought the same before using them. However I was surprised the level of talent they have. For a super senior dev the context that you need for most projects isn’t as much as you think. It was a net positi
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by kevingibbon 10y ago
Azure in REAL plain English: Microsoft AWS
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by kevingibbon 10y ago
I really wish it was that easy. We have tested a bunch of different things and there is no solution that works 100% of the time. For example.. there is no standard fragile item. A fragile item could be 2" of padding or could be 10&quot
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by kevingibbon 10y ago
We do not use shippo for this product.
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by kevingibbon 10y ago
For this new product, no. We use a ton of different technologies to make different parts of our business work. We prefer to focus on solving consumer + smb pain points vs owning the entire stack ourselves.
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by kevingibbon 10y ago
thanks for the feedback. With this new label product you can package your items yourself and print the labels. You get a final price in app/web before purchase. With our pickup/packaging business there is no way to give a price up
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Design at 1x – It's a Fact(medium.com)
13 points by kevingibbon 10y ago|1 comments
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Kanye's new album release on Tidal only = massive piracy(twitter.com)
2 points by kevingibbon 11y ago|0 comments
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USPS Is Changing Its Pricing on Sunday, Here’s What You Need to Know(blog.shyp.com)
5 points by kevingibbon 11y ago|0 comments
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How Changes in Shipping Rules Will Cost You in 2015(blog.shyp.com)
6 points by kevingibbon 12y ago|0 comments
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Just in time for the holidays, Shyp rolls out on-demand gift wrapping(venturebeat.com)
4 points by kevingibbon 12y ago|0 comments
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Reviewmatic - I send your iOS and OSX app store reviews to your inbox, every day(reviewmatic.co)
1 points by kevingibbon 12y ago|0 comments
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by kevingibbon 12y ago
it really depends on a number of things. Fedex and UPS proximity play a part but other things like availability of a suitable warehouse in a reasonable amount of time is more important.
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by kevingibbon 12y ago
We break into a city starting in a tight geography and expand outwards. We don't consider Berkeley or Oakland as new cities as we can provide service from one warehouse. We will be overing service to those areas very shortly.
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by kevingibbon 12y ago
You can select 'shipping options' and get a quote in there. We are continuously A/B testing every interaction and hiding the price in a sub-menu helped across the board.
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by kevingibbon 12y ago
yes
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by kevingibbon 12y ago
I used to be a very successful eBay power seller. I knew the pain-point myself very well. Wanted to solve it for others.
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by kevingibbon 12y ago
This is exactly the service we are offering to everyone (SF only now, NY in oct) who doesn't use Amazon fulfillment. The things we are doing behind the scenes to aim for cheapest/fastest service is unbelievable. We will continue t
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by kevingibbon 12y ago
We are launching NY in October. Then looking to stamp out cities as quickly as possible. We have the barrier of a warehouse in every city + packers but just like anything once you do something enough times you get really good at it. Looking
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by kevingibbon 12y ago
not true (disposable income SF dwellers). Using our service will be cheaper than doing it yourself. As we create custom boxes (reduces weight and size) and choose the best carrier for each shipment we are able to offer a very convenient ser
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by kevingibbon 12y ago
USPS priority. If it is <= 13 oz you could use first class. Their price point can't be beat for < 3 lb items domestically.
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by kevingibbon 12y ago
San Francisco and launching in NY early Oct. Signup for NY access on our site now. We do both. The benefit to not using a 3PL (Amazon logistics or other services) is that we don't ever store your items. We ship from your location on-de
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by kevingibbon 12y ago
No. Our service will pickup from your location at the point you need to ship.
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by kevingibbon 12y ago
yep.
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by kevingibbon 12y ago
Absolutely not true. As the article points out we actually make our money from the price arbitrage between retail and our discounted shipping price. The $5 covers the pickup of an item.
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by kevingibbon 12y ago
absolutely. The stuff we already do behind the scenes is quite incredible. Not ready to share anything yet but stay tuned. btw CEO of shyp here.
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by kevingibbon 12y ago
We do not have a public api yet ;) We used Easypost initially but have since moved off them.
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by kevingibbon 12y ago
They already pickup peoples items. However they are not setup logistically to handle 5-20min pickup times. They do something called a milk run which requires them to pre-schedule their routes before hand. They absolutely could offer this se
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by kevingibbon 12y ago
its really about demand and pickup density. This is why we will launch in major cities first. We spend less than 1min on average pickup up peoples items. So once we are able to get enough demand within a close proximity everything works out
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by kevingibbon 12y ago
USPS flat rate is actually only the cheapest USPS option if you are shipping > 11 lbs. I guarantee you that if you use us it will be cheaper (even including our $5 pickup fee) than for you to do it yourself with all free packaging materi

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