Didn't Google Maps do this already for free ? Why should I abandon those and use this ?
Show HN: Build live location sharing in your app with HyperTrack
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Re: Show HN: Build live location sharing in your app with HyperTrack
#22Pricing looks way too expensive to me even for small to medium scale usage. And if my business cross the medium scale , then why wouldn't i really build it inhouse. Seem like a classic case of product looking for problem.
We have several large scale businesses that are paid customers and find it cheaper to use us, than build it in-house. It's about the cost of an engineer, and that's a fraction of what they will incur, ongoing operating costs notwithstanding
Still too expensive. Instead of biasing your user studies with big companies that already use your product, you should listen to the greater population of potential users. But hey, that's startup 101 and I don't expect you to know that.
Re: Show HN: Build live location sharing in your app with HyperTrack
#23Didn't Google Maps do this already for free ? Why should I abandon those and use this ?
Google Maps and other map APIs are great for visuals, routes and ETAs. Where they lack is generating a battery efficient accurate location stream and mapping that to your app's workflow. Plus, map APIs are priced on the basis of number of API calls or views, both of which can lead to unpredictable cost for such a feature. For a more detailed analysis, check out our blog post: https://blog.hypertrack.com/2017/04/23/building-live-locatio...
Re: Show HN: Build live location sharing in your app with HyperTrack
#24Pricing looks way too expensive to me even for small to medium scale usage. And if my business cross the medium scale , then why wouldn't i really build it inhouse. Seem like a classic case of product looking for problem.
Its 4 cents per action. An action here is one trip which would involve multiple updates. Doesn't seem that expensive.
Re: Show HN: Build live location sharing in your app with HyperTrack
#25Pricing looks way too expensive to me even for small to medium scale usage. And if my business cross the medium scale , then why wouldn't i really build it inhouse. Seem like a classic case of product looking for problem.
We have several large scale businesses that are paid customers and find it cheaper to use us, than build it in-house. It's about the cost of an engineer, and that's a fraction of what they will incur, ongoing operating costs notwithstanding
Businesses for whom location tracking is critical process component and not a good to have such as logistic companies or lets say food/medicine delivery companies who also already have an app deployed with their end agents, the additional cost for them to get location tracking and reporting integrated in their mobile apps is trivial and also there is no technical moat as is there in lets say messaging or SMS APIs ( like Twilio). Either I don't understand your customer set, or problem you are solving is simply not big enough. You are trying to do to location tracking what twilio did to messaging, but reality is location tracking as a service doesn't make a very solid business case here. But best of luck :)
Re: Show HN: Build live location sharing in your app with HyperTrack
#26Pricing looks way too expensive to me even for small to medium scale usage. And if my business cross the medium scale , then why wouldn't i really build it inhouse. Seem like a classic case of product looking for problem.
Its 4 cents per action. An action here is one trip which would involve multiple updates. Doesn't seem that expensive.
The question is why should I even pay you $1 cent for a service for which existing underlying APIs are already extremely good( android or iOS location API and Google Maps API )
Re: Show HN: Build live location sharing in your app with HyperTrack
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
We have several large scale businesses that are paid customers and find it cheaper to use us, than build it in-house. It's about the cost of an engineer, and that's a fraction of what they will incur, ongoing operating costs notwithstanding
Businesses for whom location tracking is critical process component and not a good to have such as logistic companies or lets say food/medicine delivery companies who also already have an app deployed with their end agents, the additional cost for them to get location tracking and reporting integrated in their mobile apps is trivial and also there is no technical moat as is there in lets say messaging or SMS APIs ( l…
We've been amazed at how developers across logistics and delivery companies, messaging products, SaaS platforms, and marketplaces have used our SDKs and APIs to build live location features in their apps, and we're very excited to enable all of them. Thanks for your wishes!
Re: Show HN: Build live location sharing in your app with HyperTrack
#28Didn't Google Maps do this already for free ? Why should I abandon those and use this ?
Google Maps and other map APIs are great for visuals, routes and ETAs. Where they lack is generating a battery efficient accurate location stream and mapping that to your app's workflow. Plus, map APIs are priced on the basis of number of API calls or views, both of which can lead to unpredictable cost for such a feature. For a more detailed analysis, check out our blog post: https://blog.hypertrack.com/2017/04/23/bu…
This is pretty cool - https://blog.hypertrack.com/2017/04/18/pitfalls-using-locati...
Is there something in the protocol that makes it more efficient?
Re: Show HN: Build live location sharing in your app with HyperTrack
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Its 4 cents per action. An action here is one trip which would involve multiple updates. Doesn't seem that expensive.
The question is why should I even pay you $1 cent for a service for which existing underlying APIs are already extremely good( android or iOS location API and Google Maps API )
because when your employees learn to spoof their location to steal from you, you can sue hypertrack.
Re: Show HN: Build live location sharing in your app with HyperTrack
#30Pricing looks way too expensive to me even for small to medium scale usage. And if my business cross the medium scale , then why wouldn't i really build it inhouse. Seem like a classic case of product looking for problem.
Its 4 cents per action. An action here is one trip which would involve multiple updates. Doesn't seem that expensive.
Right. I use doordash all the time, and pay $5 - $10 for delivery. It gives me occasional status updates on my delivery, but no real time tracking. I'd love to see this in doordash, and if it costs them $0.04 from the $5 fee it seems like a no brainer. Same for so many other similar services.