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HyperTrack — Building blocks for your location features
HyperTrack helps developers build anything they can imagine with location. We offer accurate locations with near-zero battery, through building blocks that make them useful and beautiful.
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Definitely lots of potential for this -- curious if there's an integration with Uber's API?
@chrismessina thanks for hunting us. We thought of ourselves as bringing the power of Uber-like location features to the rest of the world. It's an interesting question how we might be useful in tandem with Uber APIs. Thinking... Suggestions?
@righthalf yeah, I mean this is what the Trip Experiences API was intended for... So with the right partner, you could combine trip context with destination insights to create new kinds of guided destination experiences.
@chrismessina yea was looking up exactly that. A popular use case for HyperTrack is live location sharing - friends meeting up some place can share live location when on the way. When some of them are in an Uber (as they often are), Trip Experiences API can help unify that experience for all. And that is just one possibility. Thanks for the tip...
@chrismessina @righthalf - This is such a cool idea! I was fascinated with how Hypertrack enables commerce, esp in the online-to-offline world. Applications in trips/experiences open up a whole lot of new opportunities!
One of my favorite apps is Roadtrippers which shows you points of interest along your road trip, but doesn't quite do live location tracking. Would be an interesting addition!
Pretty awesome - nicely laid out use cases. Looking forward to meatier python client library docs.
@vdurai Sure Vivek. Given the amount of love we are getting from python devs, we are going to do this soon!
It's great to see HyperTrack building infrastructure for location-based services. At Stripe, we started building payments infrastructure with a similar goal--enabling more commerce online. Looking forward to seeing more businesses in the logistics, travel and delivery space thanks to HyperTrack.
@cjc thanks Cristina. We had this use case by a leading payments company that accepts cards through a little hardware device at the door. They had been geotagging those receipts, just as you have timestamps, these were placestamps. Now just as they have timelines, we've created placelines. If a delivery or visit has a payment at the end, we can generate the placeline for it (placestamp too, of course). Would this be useful in your world or am I smoking dope? :-)
Worked with the team. The battery efficiency of SDK - which was super critical to us - was great. Good luck guys. Excited to see what companies build with HyperTrack
Thanks for everything, @nikhilvij03. Wouldn't have been able to get a key customer live without your support.
@nikhilvij03 Thanks Nikhil! What else would you like to see in the platform?
At Coachella this year, my house all set their location sharing permissions using iOS's feature. I got nervous bc I worried I would forget to turn it off so I set it to 8 hours only. Then, a couple hours later I turned it off to minimize battery drain bc I've always heard location sharing drains your battery. And I just checked the Find Friends app and I see some of those folks never turned it off. Ha! Could I use hypertracks API to build a simpler, more precise version of location sharing for ad hoc groups that would minimize battery drain? Never mind that idea, I just looked through your docs and I want to make city wide scavenger hunts with custom actions for discovering the locations hinted at by clues. Each group of friends can define up to 10 teams that app start at the same time. Haha this type of trivial game would be taxing to the point of not fun to build from scratch, but your API could make it a fun hackathon project. Perhaps replace the http://jaredmorgenstern.com/quotes project! Good stuff, team. That degree of freedom, to unlock a cool social game, while it sounds trivial,- begs the question what other things will now come into the world. What have you guys come up with as a team hypertrack? What are your dream integrations?
@jjflex Battery usage for location tracking has turned a corner recently, with overlaying activity data with location data. Check out this post we wrote: https://blog.hypertrack.com/2017...
Now don't get me started on whacky use cases. An escort service in SE Asia became a paying customer in our self-serve. It was the app that the workers use. I was a bit creeped out at first but then saw that it was not for customers tracking the visit. It was for internal use. I hope it's for monitoring the safety of the workers, perhaps an SOS button in the app?
Back to gaming, if you think about it, Pokemon Go was built by the Keyhole/Google Maps guy for a reason. Tracking activity and location needs to work well for the game to work. I've seen a bunch of social and messaging apps build live location sharing between users with HyperTrack. Am waiting for that social gaming use case in the big bad world that is built on our platform.
A health insurance company just started using us to reward customers with cashbacks for a certain number of active fitness days and sessions.
@nickhung Thanks Nick. We have seen a few use cases till date ( order tracking, workforce monitoring, mileage tracking, location-based assignments, live location sharing, and profiling users & places). Are there other use cases that you see? Would love to get your thoughts!
@rakeshlobster that's a common misperception. We wrote a blog about it: https://blog.hypertrack.com/2017...
You take a bunch of pins to the map and it does things with it. But you are on your own to generate those pins in the first place. And now to think you need to track a moving pin (more like a line) rather than a bunch of pins, you don't know where to start. Without HyperTrack that is.
Do you see use cases where it's about tracking and not about mapping?
I have been interacting with the team for the past 2-3 months and the product is amazing. It's a given to use them for real-time tracking. Well done!
Thanks for the kind words @mrjain_. Want to understand how you came to that conclusion. Did you consider building in-house?
@arjunattam As with any engineering team, resources were limited so building it in-house was an option for about 5 seconds and then decided to get started with HyperTrack.
Have been following the HyperTrack team since the very early days. Not just product design & tech but documentation and support is also top notch. Very nimble and strong team. Hope to see more companies building great products on top of HyperTrack. All the best guys !
@thebitmonk Thanks for sharing your feedback, Varun. Do you have any companies in mind that you think can build their product on top of HyperTrack?
We at Freshdesk, provide customer support software to some of the leading companies across the world like Honda, Cisco, 3M etc. We're also used by some of the more popular on-demand consumer apps in Asia for providing support in real-time using chat. When we noticed some of our customers already using Hypertrack's plug-and-play location stack, doing an integration with them was a no-brainer for us -> this allows our customers to provide a seamless support experience to the end users.
This is a fantastic product, built by an experienced team: Really excited by all the possibilities Hypertrack opens up! Go team!
@abhishekmadhavn thanks Abhishek. Love the quick integration you guys did for our mutual customers. The next level might be a chatbot integration where customers asking for their orders can automatically get the tracking link and ETA with no human intervention? :-)
@righthalf @abhishekmadhavn That would be super cool. Something like this? https://hellotars.com/convBot/de... (just a demo)
@jindalish @righthalf @abhishekmadhavn That's a lovely prototype @jindalish. Fabulous work. Wondering if can we offer a order-tracking chatbot (pre-integrated with HyperTrack) to someone who may be interested?
@abhishekpoddar @righthalf @abhishekmadhavn Definitely! Should be pretty easy to integrate your API with our bots.
@abhishekmadhavn Congratulations. Great product demo video. May I know if you took help from any external parties to make your video?
This opens a lot of possibilities, congrats on the launch guys :) Will give this a spin.
@findabhilash Would love to get your feedback once you give it a try. Also - wondering what kind of possibilities are you imagining?
How many times in a day do you ask someone - 'Where are you?'. With HyperTrack you won't have to do that any more!
HyperTrack is lowering the barriers for the industry to create new location based services by solving a trifecta of problems:
1. Making it easier for developers to build via its plug-n-play sdk & awesome onboarding
2. Making it convenient for field users to use its technology via minimal battery usage and background sync
3. Making it super fun for business owners to consume location data through beautiful visualizations...
Super excited to think of the possibilities with this!
@ram_kakkad if you were to build a live location-based app, what would it be?
@righthalf Some kind of a task aggregator for families could be useful. So if I needed to visit a store or do some work somewhere - and someone from my family was in the area - they could get a ping saying 'A family task is available in the area'.
Love it. Apps like Swiggy have made it a habit to track the delivery. Hope to see more consumer/delivery apps support location tracking. Good luck team.
@rishikulkarni Don't you think Swiggy's tracking experience needs an upgrade though?
@righthalf As I am regular user of Swiggy almost every day (Order food for team) I must say they need to upgrade
Thanks @chrismessina for hunting us.
Hey ProductHunt - Abhishek here from HyperTrack.
HyperTrack helps developers build better location-based services in their apps, just as Twilio does for communication and Stripe does for payments.
HyperTrack has been testing for a year with forward thinking companies of all sizes to build and operate live location features in delivery (Zomato), service (HouseJoy), travel (goIbibo), transport (Redbus), logistics (Delhivery), sales (Toppr) and more. Our users are tracking over 1 million hours per month and building for a variety of use cases such as order tracking, workforce monitoring, mileage tracking, location-based assignments, live location sharing, and profiling users & places.
We'd love to hear your feedback and answer your questions!
Oh wow, would have been so handy when I was building eBay Now and fulfilling hyperlocal orders! Will give this a try soon...
@vivek_goyal sounds great. This will get you live in 10 mins https://www.hypertrack.com/useca...
@vivek_goyal Thanks Vivek. Wonder if there is a use case for Shifu as well?
@abhishekpoddar @vivek_goyal whatever use case you decide, I know what it's going to be called - Shifu Go
@jerdogxda Thanks Jeremy. Are there other things you think HyperTrack could opensource for the best of the developer community?
@abhishekpoddar the iOS version of the Live Tracking would be a good next step which I am sure you're working on. Continuing to make sure new technologies are represented and able to be accessed will be important, and I would suggest that IoT not be ignored. I know personally a few interested parties which would make use of this with IoT.
@jerdogxda That's right. We are soon going to open source iOS version of HyperTrack Live app (our live location sharing app). Should happen in a few weeks.
Re: your thought on IoT, we too have received interest on supporting IoT. Wondering what use cases you have seen?
@kostyarypta yes small businesses are cost conscious and tracking saves money. tech platforms for small businesses integrate with HyperTrack usually, and SMBs are end users. what use case did you have in mind?
@ashish_aggarwal Glad you liked the UI. Credit goes to @vibhasjain. Looking forward to see you go live.
We've engaged with the HyperTrack team since the early days. Their quick effort to support tracking 'multiple users in the same map view' allowed us to ship and iterate over a use case critical to our app.
In what can only be a sign of immense faith in the product and team, we are also integrating HyperTrack into some of our white-labeled products and projects for end-clients. Three cheers for HT!
@singhal_shobhit Shobhit, your use case for friends being able to share live location with each other when on the way to meet up, opened a potent use case for us. Have seen messaging apps and marketplaces seek out that feature. Would not have packaged it if it wasn't for you guys. Muchas gracias.
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