Nice writeup. The whole "your docs site is just on a different branch" has always been weird to me though. I'm not sure what a better way to do it would be but I don't like these two options: switch branches inline or have a separate clone of the repo.
The network is powerful. Alums are generally connected through the mentors and program directors if they aren't in the same class (the cloud class has it's own alumni weekend where the classes got to know each other well).
The first 4 weeks is very intense on the business/market/sales plan side of things. It is hard to get work done, you have to squeeze it in whenever possible (night, weekends, etc). The idea is that you probably shouldn't do a ton of work before you have a solid plan in place. After that things slow down and you can focus on coding/traction.
A1: Yes, you can reference them by the carrier tracking number (although you could not void/modify a shipment that wasn't created by your carrier account).
A2: Do those have a tracking number pre-printed? If so, yes. It will also work with a UPS InfoNotice or Waybill #.
A3: Yes! We have "best-effort" functionality, it will be expanded to add more complex statements, but we currently have "Send best price from X to Y within N days."
A4: Yes, if you rate is lower than ours and you are over a certain shipping threshold.
Hi all, I’m really excited to start talking about Postmaster. We are a small startup in Austin that is focused on shipping integration. With Postmaster you can be shipping packages in less than 5 minutes (from signup to your first curl against the RESTful API). You can ship/track/validate-addresses through multiple vendors, get callbacks on your shipment events, and we are working on much more. We are letting people into the beta slowly to make sure we keep response times and service levels high. Let us know if you have any shipping feature requests.
Maybe, but this is the case for any dead man's switch (even a bank/lawyer). It's always a balance between what the mob boss thinks he can get you to do vs the power of the dirt you have on him. Literature/TV have beaten to death the permutations/twists on this theme.
Agreed, trust is key for a service like this. Ideally the contents need to be secure, but not so secure that you are the only one who can read them--otherwise what's the point since you're probably abducted or dead?
Yeah that's kind of tongue-in-cheek. It's most likely not either of those at this point. I just threw some stuff up there that a service "might" say if it was for realz.
I totally agree. This isn't a "hey this is a service you should pay for" post, this is more of a "hey I built this in 17 hours at a hackathon, check it out".
If it ever does become a service for real I'll need to do some work to secure it, add features, etc.
Well. If you happen to be going into a high-profile meeting with a mob boss and you happen to have incriminating documents about him, upload them to Deadman and hopefully you will get out alive. :)
More seriously, I think the core technology would be useful for elderly, people going on hikes into remote areas, etc.