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Nabeel Hyatt

Postmates API — Build on the largest on-demand ordering fleet

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Andrew Brackin
This is similar to where Postmates started. As a business courier service, they started the consumer offering after that product got little traction. This is better because it's all automated through the API? (No manual orders for merchants).
Bastian Lehmann
Maker
@brackin To a certain degree yes. But we're now at a scale where this makes a lot more sense. The API is interesting because it allows everyone to build on top of our fleet in many markets. It also helps us to shape demand and to increase the yield for our Postmates' during all times of the day, not only during food peak times.
Nabeel Hyatt
Hunter
@brackin The similarities feel relatively skin deep, kind of like the difference between trying to run Amazon via phone calls to fedex vs a direct order fulfillment. Take the Everlane example where it is integrated into purchase flow, it's creates an enabling opportunity that literally wasn't there before.
Jack Smith
@brackin @nabeel yeah; the original incarnation was prohibitively expensive for most use cases; now that postmates has economies of scale, they can probably make it more affordable for merchants. The API is also a very different use case to manually entering address details on a phone.
Sara Mauskopf, CEO of Winnie.com
Maker
Anyone have ideas for what you want to build on the Postmates API? We're giving away $100,000 in delivery credits for the best ideas -- some suggestions here https://postmates.com/developer/...
Micah Baldwin
the ability to own the last mile and provide the opportunity for businesses to be built on that platform is going to amazing. One day - Kozmo will live again! (just in thousands of smaller versions...)
Jeff Morris Jr.
@basti I'd love to see more examples of companies who are interested in your API. Trying to think of ideas and want to experiment with your API but need a little more inspiration :)
Bastian Lehmann
Maker
Hi, Bastian here from Postmates. We're super excited about the launch of our API and we hope many of you will find it useful. Let us know if we can answer any questions. We're here! ;)
Bastian Lehmann
Maker
Here are some more resources in regards to the API. From a business perspective, and from an engineering perspective: http://blog.postmates.com/post/1... http://blog.postmates.com/post/1...
Clark Wimberly
brb writing a Hipchat bot that brings us tacos
Clark Wimberly
@basti PS we're in Austin and we use Postmates and we host hackathons. This might actually happen, haha.
Bastian Lehmann
Maker
@clarklab We would love to power the next one! Let's connect at: bastian@postmates.com
Michael Sippey
Can't wait to see what people build with this. The Everlane integration is such a great example for others to follow.
Enrique Dubois
Love it! Now, how does it compare in pricing or convenience to Zipments or GoRickShaw?
oliver binkhorst
I like this move. Very smart.
Ariel Jalali
Put a ding button in your apps