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Eddress — An address system for the digital age
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Thanks Jason for your support! I myself moved 11 times in the past 5 years, and even my credit cards addresses are all mixed up! This being said, we are heavy users of Etsy in the region and we would love to discuss potential integration and partnership.
Interesting... We work with what3words which offers a similar service. Do you have or thinking of creating an api?
@thornhillmatt I'm already a fan of W3W -- curious to hear how the developer of Eddress thinks the two services differ, and why one might be more beneficial than the other. One thing I already notice is that determining an Eddress requires the app, where with W3W, you can look up an address entirely via the web.
@thornhillmatt Thanks Matt, we are currently testing our public API, I'll make sure to let you know once available.
@zefareu w3w points to coordinates while eddress points to a full address including coord, pc, bldg, floor, voice note, directions and hopefully soon w3w. The eddress code follows you, meaning when you relocate to a new home, your eddress code stays the same, and we make sure all relevant parties are notified. Think of it more like Address as a service! You can also lookup an eddress on map.eddress.co
Kind of a novel idea but not exactly sure the problem they are solving. Is it that I want some privacy around my address... but these services and providers will still discover my real address for delivery. Is it simplicity in updating shipping addresses? This I kind of understand after moving and having a couple amazon packages shipped to our old address before fixing our address.
Yet do we need a service that simply places a step between supplying an address to a service? How would a service know what to do with ABC-123 as my address. This seems like a huge biz-dev hurdle to overcome. Any thoughts on how they are doing with adaption?
@paulprins Paul, the biggest problem we're trying to solve is addresses in developing countries suffering from poor infrastructure. Privacy is just to protect against your contacts finding out were you live. eddress is not just an app to store and share your address, it's a platform connecting businesses with their customers to augment the online delivery process, currently non existent in third world countries. In terms of adoption, we're still working on our api and business platform.
@ronnyshibley now that sounds really interesting. All the major urban imagery had me confused (along with the uber integration). Best of luck!
@diniska_ thanks for your feedback. Sms verification through third parties has been a nightmare. Will look into it and will get back to you.
I've been waiting for something like this for a while. Moving address and updating all the different companies on the change is such a tedious process that makes no sense. Have them point to a service that handles the change, and update it once. Makes total sense.
The question that has always come to my mind is, how do you get adoption? What's your plan to get eddress used by companies @ronnyshibley? What progress have you made so far here?
@fredrivett @muzzytree Our biggest strength lies in the platform we're providing our partners to manage their customers and orders. Linking them directly to postal services and engaging with customers through eddress. Basically, we get the partners, they get the users, we follow up and verify their eddresses.
Cool idea. So what would be the Dream Partner for you guys (besides Uber, which you already work with)?
Neat idea. Short URL for sharing locations should really be www.edrs.co/ABC-123. Current URLs are way too long and hard to remember. Might as well leverage on eddress 6-digit code.
@ronnyshibley here is what is copied in when I share it on iOS => http://edrs.co/8vkV2ZdwduvG45TzBFGX
@rfreling ahhh true this was done to protect your code when its private its an expiring url. We removed it in the new version coming out end of month. Anyway when u put it to public and u share the code it will be the short url.
I really love the idea of this! I've thought about doing this before and wondered why this hasn't happened already. I would love to integrate this in my own app, Greetale, when the public API is ready.
I think the most important factor to Eddress' success is substantial growth. Once everyone is using it and people see that everyone has an Eddress, then they'd get one too.
Partnerships will be essential for growth. If I start seeing "enter your Eddress" on all the online merchants I shop at, then I'd be curious and get one too. Integrating Eddress and Stripe on a e-commerce website would allow one to check out within a matter of seconds. Imagine if you were available to be deployed on every Shopify website out there.
Patenting this is not a bad idea either! Have you guys considered that?
@rustinrassoli Thanks Rustin, encouraging words! In fact eddress is relying heavily on partnerships to converge users. We are currently working on verifying addresses and developing a set of tools and order fulfillment platform to make our service attractive to third parties. One cool feature is tracking your shipments through eddress and connecting with delivery services.
Very interesting play. Have you identified early segments where address owners and address users would want to adopt this quickly?
@jshah1998 Thanks, insurance companies and banks are currently showing the most interest in verified up to date addresses. Ecommerce and shipping apps are next in line for delivery and customer engagement.
User adoption seems to be a big problem for eddress. I will be interested to know whats the incentive for other services/products to start using eddress. Here, in India a company named Zippr(https://play.google.com/store/ap...) is also doing same work. To the best of my knowledge, they are quite far from showing some traction. I wonder how such products will fight back if google maps decides to create a unique code for users to share their lat-long and solve the same problem. In any case, If i am not wrong such apps use some map service- google, apple or Bing maps. May be, I am underestimating the value being created here. On a separate note, It's very difficult to remember 10 digit mobile numbers also no one is trying to solve that. (e.g. IP -> URL)
@muzzytree not sure how zipper is performing, although they do provide a similar service for the enduser. On the other hand, we are focusing on providing a good set of logistics services along with validated addresses to our partners.
@ronnyshibley thanks for response. Pls check out lookup.to . IMHO, marriage between their concept n that of eddress sounds like too good to ignore.
@muzzytree I know lookup :) love the idea! unfortunately its not available in my app store.
Uber is cool because, in developing countries, you cannot send uber to a specific location unless you pin it on the map. Using eddress you can send uber from your friends house to your office. This being said, Uber will not bring us users. The dream partner would be Amazon or Alibaba. 😊
Something I had pondered on a while back. Adress' are static but the true adress' of people are ever so dynamic. Tech has not caught up with this yet. This may change all that. Like say you are in office and you don't really mind your delivery being handed over in office as long as you are there but want it to be delivered once you are at home. This in the future can automatically help the delivery person identify this based on other preferences and could help do wonders ( that is one use case, there can be 100s more)
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