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An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding

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Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding

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Post by losteverything »

pmalynin wrote: post #17
t0mbstone wrote: post #10

Startup ideas inspired by Always Sunny in Philadelphia? http://itsalwayssunny.wikia.com/wiki/The_Gang_Recycles_Their... What's next? An Uber-like service that will deliver gasoline directly to your car that is parked in your driveway? Hmm... Come to think of it, that would actually be pretty sweet. I would never have to stop and fill up my gas tank! It would just always be full! A gas delivery truck would come in the…

http://www.filld.com/

This would be a hit in NJ where you can't pump your own gas

Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding

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Post by pbourke »

kornish wrote: post #122
dyim wrote: post #53

I'm rooting for these guys - it looks like their COO has been in waste management since 1999 (and, from the article, his family's been in it for decades). As a casual observer of "non-sexy" startups, I've noticed that these kinds of founding teams do well.

What are some of your favorite "non-sexy" startups that you've casually observed?

FarmLogs and Flexport are two that seem neat from the outside (farming and logistics, respectively)

Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding

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Post by _e »

pmalynin wrote: post #17
t0mbstone wrote: post #10

Startup ideas inspired by Always Sunny in Philadelphia? http://itsalwayssunny.wikia.com/wiki/The_Gang_Recycles_Their... What's next? An Uber-like service that will deliver gasoline directly to your car that is parked in your driveway? Hmm... Come to think of it, that would actually be pretty sweet. I would never have to stop and fill up my gas tank! It would just always be full! A gas delivery truck would come in the…

http://www.filld.com/

Did anyone else read this as fill daemon?

Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding

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Post by twothamendment »

gfosco wrote: post #101
t0mbstone wrote: post #10

Startup ideas inspired by Always Sunny in Philadelphia? http://itsalwayssunny.wikia.com/wiki/The_Gang_Recycles_Their... What's next? An Uber-like service that will deliver gasoline directly to your car that is parked in your driveway? Hmm... Come to think of it, that would actually be pretty sweet. I would never have to stop and fill up my gas tank! It would just always be full! A gas delivery truck would come in the…

This isn't very uber-like, since it's only for businesses. I'd love to be able to easily get someone to pick up cardboard and other trash at my house. We're big users of Amazon Prime and also starting a business that involves a lot of large deliveries, so we're completely buried in cardboard and the expensive local garbage/recycling service cannot support us. We're ordering our second dumpster in less than a year to…

They should consider residential too. Out where I am you have to haul your own trash to a few spots around the county. I don't mind, but I'm sure there are plenty of people who'd rather have access to a service like this.

Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding

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Post by komali2 »

pmalynin wrote: post #17
t0mbstone wrote: post #10

Startup ideas inspired by Always Sunny in Philadelphia? http://itsalwayssunny.wikia.com/wiki/The_Gang_Recycles_Their... What's next? An Uber-like service that will deliver gasoline directly to your car that is parked in your driveway? Hmm... Come to think of it, that would actually be pretty sweet. I would never have to stop and fill up my gas tank! It would just always be full! A gas delivery truck would come in the…

http://www.filld.com/

These guys are going to war with mountain view city council as soon as it wakes up. Seems like once a week someone on the council is saying they're gonna "do something" about the private drivers with loads of fuel in the back of their truck, or the fact that airbnb isn't getting taxed. What "something" means and why "something" needs to be done has yet to be clarified.

Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding

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Post by dsfyu404ed »

nbclark wrote: post #41
sillysaurus3 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Filld customers pay the lowest price of the three gas stations closest to their location plus a small delivery fee. For example, if the three gas stations closest to you charge $2.62, $2.55 and $2.67 per gallon, you will pay $2.55. We purchase this pricing data from the Oil Price Indexing Service (OPIS), and we update it regularly. How do they make money? I wonder how high the delivery fee is.

It says the delivery fee is typically $3. Not sure how they make money...

lots of small deliveries

Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding

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Post by duncan_bayne »

dwaltrip wrote: post #109
duncan_bayne wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wouldn't it be better if we were allowed to interact voluntarily? Pay for what we wanted and used, and support people and causes through charity instead of under duress?

Governments are a default state produced by groups of humans. They are inevitable. Making them better is incredibly hard work, but that is the only option. Often times, they are improved by working outside the system itself, it seems. So there are some interesting options for tackling this hard problem. The company mentioned in the article may turn out to be a great example of this. Governments do come in many forms,…

I agree with you re. anarcho-capitalism. I think that a state is a prerequisite for capitalism.

But that doesn't mean you couldn't a) pare back the state to the bare minimum functionality (which doesn't include garbage collection, IMO) and fund it voluntarily.

Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding

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Post by dyim »

kornish wrote: post #122
dyim wrote: post #53

I'm rooting for these guys - it looks like their COO has been in waste management since 1999 (and, from the article, his family's been in it for decades). As a casual observer of "non-sexy" startups, I've noticed that these kinds of founding teams do well.

What are some of your favorite "non-sexy" startups that you've casually observed?

Returnbase (reverse logistics), CropMetrics (agtech), Weather Analytics (ag. insurance), and Loop Support (customer support, shameless plug) come to mind.

It's tough to "casually observe" startups because you can't flip through their 10-Ks, but you can think of individual startups metonymously - learn more about their industries, and then try to figure out why these startups are trying to use technology to make better products.

Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding

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Post by tomjakubowski »

discombobulate wrote: post #52
jelder wrote: post #5

This is great but what if, hold on, we paid taxes.

It's a shame government services are normally junk (pun unintended). That's my experience. Off the top of my head: I would pay twice for x. Given how bad gov services are. Edit: Cool downvotes Marxist bros. Our national health service can't be super inefficient (I'm just about to go on a waiting list for a year) & my rubbish collection can't have just halved the amount of trash they take every two weeks . You're righ…

Marxism is entirely orthogonal to the idea of "government-provided services."

Re: An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding

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Post by twothamendment »

foobaw wrote: post #66
t0mbstone wrote: post #10

Startup ideas inspired by Always Sunny in Philadelphia? http://itsalwayssunny.wikia.com/wiki/The_Gang_Recycles_Their... What's next? An Uber-like service that will deliver gasoline directly to your car that is parked in your driveway? Hmm... Come to think of it, that would actually be pretty sweet. I would never have to stop and fill up my gas tank! It would just always be full! A gas delivery truck would come in the…

It's not a bad idea if the quality of the gas is verifiable.

How do you verify the gas from the stations you stop at now?

The most thought I've put into it when I had a VW TDI was to fill up at a stations that were busy and more likely to have fresh fuel. A brand name station isn't a guarantee that the fuel is fresh if it is on the road less traveled.

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