Show HN: Paccurate – An API to put things in other things
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Re: Show HN: Paccurate – An API to put things in other things
#2Hi folks. Paccurate is our first product after working freelance in the logistics tech space for 5 years. The business has been off to a great start, but we've had the most fun seeing the API used in hackathons and other creative venues. Eager to see what applications HN can come up with.
Quickstart: Just paste this in your terminal.
curl -X POST -d '{ "itemSets": [{ "refId": 0, "dimensions": {"x": 5.5, "y": 6, "z": 6}, "quantity": 3 }], "boxTypeSets":["fedex"] }' api.paccurate.io/
Re: Show HN: Paccurate – An API to put things in other things
#3What is this that I'm looking at in the response?
Re: Show HN: Paccurate – An API to put things in other things
#4What is this that I'm looking at in the response?
There's some deprecated gubbins in there mostly having to do with styling the box images. You can set "includeScripts" to "false" to omit them. What's left is a list of items and what boxes they go in, as well as the SVGs that show how to pack them. Thanks for trying it out!
Re: Show HN: Paccurate – An API to put things in other things
#5This looks nice!
~3 years ago I was still working in SMB/SME ecommerce IT and made an aborted attempt at building automatic small-parcel rate shopping and optimization on top of https://www.teapplix.com.
Even today it seems the big* SMB/SME players don't offer proper rate optimization tools, likely due to contractual relationships with the carriers which restrict that functionality.
*Stamps.com owns most of the major SMB/SME shipping tools: Stamps.com, Endicia, ShipStation, ShippingEasy, ShipWorks (+ upmarket tools like ShipEngine and Metapack and maybe more)
Re: Show HN: Paccurate – An API to put things in other things
#6What is this that I'm looking at in the response?
There's some deprecated gubbins in there mostly having to do with styling the box images. You can set "includeScripts" to "false" to omit them. What's left is a list of items and what boxes they go in, as well as the SVGs that show how to pack them. Thanks for trying it out!
For the lazy:
curl -X POST -d '{ "includeScripts": false, "itemSets": [{ "refId": 0, "dimensions": {"x": 5.5, "y": 6, "z": 6}, "quantity": 3 }], "boxTypeSets":["fedex"] }' api.paccurate.io/
Re: Show HN: Paccurate – An API to put things in other things
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's some deprecated gubbins in there mostly having to do with styling the box images. You can set "includeScripts" to "false" to omit them. What's left is a list of items and what boxes they go in, as well as the SVGs that show how to pack them. Thanks for trying it out!
For the lazy: curl -X POST -d '{ "includeScripts": false, "itemSets": [{ "refId": 0, "dimensions": {"x": 5.5, "y": 6, "z": 6}, "quantity": 3 }], "boxTypeSets":["fedex"] }' api.paccurate.io/
What's the minimal .html file required to turn the contents of the "svgs" key into something I can look at?
Re: Show HN: Paccurate – An API to put things in other things
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
For the lazy: curl -X POST -d '{ "includeScripts": false, "itemSets": [{ "refId": 0, "dimensions": {"x": 5.5, "y": 6, "z": 6}, "quantity": 3 }], "boxTypeSets":["fedex"] }' api.paccurate.io/
What's the minimal .html file required to turn the contents of the "svgs" key into something I can look at?
The element should just work inside a body tag. To pretty it up though you will need some css targeting some of the child elements. For example, to make the container have a dashed border like we have, you would do:
line.volume-line { stroke: #666; stroke-dasharray: 2,1; stroke-width: 1; }
Re: Show HN: Paccurate – An API to put things in other things
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the minimal .html file required to turn the contents of the "svgs" key into something I can look at?
The element should just work inside a body tag. To pretty it up though you will need some css targeting some of the child elements. For example, to make the container have a dashed border like we have, you would do: line.volume-line { stroke: #666; stroke-dasharray: 2,1; stroke-width: 1; }
Thanks. I was also having trouble figuring out how to decode the svg figure element into plaintext I can throw into a text editor and open in the browser. (I don't have any svg experience).
I checked the docs and switched the imageFormat to png and was able to see the render.
It's awesome that with svg I could style elements of the provided image however I want!
Re: Show HN: Paccurate – An API to put things in other things
#10This looks nice! ~3 years ago I was still working in SMB/SME ecommerce IT and made an aborted attempt at building automatic small-parcel rate shopping and optimization on top of https://www.teapplix.com . Even today it seems the big* SMB/SME players don't offer proper rate optimization tools, likely due to contractual relationships with the carriers which restrict that functionality. *Stamps.com owns most of the majo…
That's very interesting. We haven't had too much pushback along those lines at least as we make our way upmarket. It might be because we aren't doing rating, just predictive packing.