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Shippo
Company blog · goshippo.com/blogprogrammingbusiness
Shippo is the company blog at goshippo.com, writing about programming and business. Since 2013, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “Shippo (goshippo.com 500S 2014) is hiring senior engineers”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN comments link goshippo.com mostly as a shipping API company, in hiring posts, product launches and bug reports. Linked posts cover its UberRUSH integration, a PagerDuty alerting playbook, and API docs and pricing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Shippo is the best multi-carrier shipping software for e-commerce businesses. Find the best shipping rates, integrate with e-commerce platforms, print shipping labels, track package delivery, and verify addresses with either our shipping API or web app.
Most-linked posts?
- Shippo (goshippo.com 500S 2014) is hiring senior engineers4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2014-10-01
- Evolution of Our PagerDuty Playbook: Fewer Alerts, More Uptime3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-08-22
- Shippo - Find the cheapest shipping rates for express shipments3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-12-15
What Hacker News says?
Shippo | San Francisco/SOMA | Onsite, Visa | Full-time http://www.goshippo.com Shippo is a shipping API company that connects e-commerce businesses and marketplaces to multiple shipping carriers from one place. Our API powers shipping for companies like Shyp and Weebly, and we recently partnered with Stripe to offer shipping directly through their API. With Shippo, businesses of all sizes can easily access Amazon-qu…
Comment linking /jobs/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)”Submitted Shippos USPS Time in Transit Data as a story · 123 points
HN discussionShippo | San Francisco/SOMA | Onsite, Visa | Full-time | http://www.goshippo.com Shippo is a shipping API company that connects e-commerce businesses and marketplaces to multiple shipping carriers from one place. Our API powers shipping for companies like Shyp and Weebly, and we recently partnered with Stripe to offer shipping directly through their API. With Shippo, businesses of all sizes can easily access Amazon-…
Comment linking /jobs/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)”Submitted Show HN: Built a 'Kayak for courier services' as a story · 95 points
HN discussionShippo is hiring | https://goshippo.com Shippo is an API that simplifies shipping for e-commerce stores. Our API streamlines the shipping process by connecting to all different shipping providers at the same time via one unified platform. We are an API first company and our tech team is the backbone of the company. We are focused on the scalability of the API to smoothly onboard some of our larger customers as well…
Comment linking /jobs/ux-engineer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)”Submitted Multi-Piece Shipment Support Available in the Shippo API as a story · 39 points
HN discussionShippo - San Francisco, CA - Fulltime or Intern. Visa welcome. - https://goshippo.com/jobs/ WHAT WE ARE WORKING ON We at Shippo are working on an API that simplifies shipping for e-commerce stores. Our API streamlines the shipping process by connecting to all different shipping providers at the same time via one unified platform. At the moment we are a team of eight and growing fast. Since we are an API first compan…
Comment linking /jobs/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2014)”Submitted Shippo's learnings from integrating the UberRUSH API as a story · 28 points
HN discussion- 47 · 2016-06-09
Why does your API is making such a big assumption that there is only one parcel/package per shipment[0]. I have looked at your competitors as well. Except for one all of them make this assumption. I guess customers with multi package shipments are not your target clients. [0] https://goshippo.com/docs/#shipments
Comment linking /docs/
on “UberRUSH API – Add on-demand delivery to your app or service” Submitted How we accidentally over-engineered seeding Memcached in Python, Redis and Celery as a story · 26 points
HN discussionWe integrated the UberRush API as part of our multi-carrier shipping API https://goshippo.com/shipping-blog/introducing-uberrush-ship... It's interesting to see Uber entering the space of same day delivery. Happy to chat about the integration experience if anyone is interested!
Comment linking /shipping-blog/introducing-uberrush-shippo-demand-delivery-network-powered-uber/
on “UberRUSH API – Add on-demand delivery to your app or service”Submitted Evolution of Our PagerDuty Playbook: Fewer Alerts, More Uptime as a story · 18 points
HN discussionThe assumption in this statement is staggering. If public Company A has costs greater than revenue and is therefore losing money, private Company B will therefore (?) be able to provide a better service at lower cost? On what basis? There is no private company today that does what the USPS does. It's easy to forget while living in the metro areas most of us live in, but Fedex, UPS, and DHL often contract out to deli…
Comment linking /blog/which-is-cheaper-usps-vs-ups-vs-fedex/
on “USPS Begins Postal Banking Pilot Program”Submitted Shippo Package Tracking API: Get statuses for all your shipments in one place as a story · 15 points
HN discussion> But I bought this Polono label printer off Amazon for ~$140, which was a steal compared to the Zebra models that start around $500. Secret: Go to Alibaba and find suppliers that will sell you a Zebra ZP888 for around ~$125/unit. They're a Chinese-market version of the venerable LP2844, a workhorse in the shipping industry for over two decades now, and they're brand new . Edit: Also forgot: If you use a service lik…
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on “Writing a printer driver in JavaScript”Submitted Measure the Real Size of Any Python Object as a story · 10 points
HN discussionMost of your sitemap links go back to homepage (Investors for eg): https://goshippo.com/sitemap/
Comment linking /sitemap/
on “Show HN: Built a 'Kayak for courier services'”Submitted Shippo (goshippo.com 500S 2014) is hiring senior engineers as a story · 7 points
HN discussionDon't understand your negotiated prices apply to my shipments? I noticed that user is requested to create account at respective carrier. Could not use it since the server ajax is not responding. PS - Request URL: https://goshippo.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?from-dd=Orange%... Request Method:GET Status Code:500 Internal Server Error
on “Show HN: Built a 'Kayak for courier services'”Submitted Shippo - Find the cheapest shipping rates for express shipments as a story · 2 points
HN discussion- ye · 2013-11-07
Your website is all broken. I get a "503 Service Unavailable: Back-end server is at capacity" for this: https://goshippo.com/wp-content/themes/wpbootstrap/images/lo...
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on “Show HN: Built a 'Kayak for courier services'” Submitted Are Your PagerDuty Alerts Misleading You? 3 Metrics to Track Today as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLooks like they offer free tracking api even if you don't buy shipping through them, which is interesting: https://goshippo.com/pricing/
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on “Apps that send packages with the Shippo API”Submitted Show HN: API for cheaper (international) shipping as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSo how does Shippo fit into all this? https://goshippo.com/
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on “Shyp Goes Nationwide By Letting You Comparison-Shop Shipping Services”Thanks for the sources, I'll have to check them out. We've recently spent a considerable amount of time tracking, analyzing and evolving our PagerDuty alerting[0], learnings of which we've shared in a blog post. [0] https://goshippo.com/blog/evolution-our-pagerduty-playbook-f...
Comment linking /blog/evolution-our-pagerduty-playbook-fewer-alerts-more-uptime/
on “So You've Been Paged: A Guide to Incident Response”Glad that you're addressing the whole shipping industry in your question here! Shippo customers vary pretty widely. Many inventory and warehouse management systems actually use our API to get the address validation, shipping integration, label creation functionalities you mentioned [0]. We're just white-labeled. These customers want to focus on what they're good at instead of having to maintain the shipping side of…
Comment linking /case-studies/mercari/
on “Multi-Piece Shipment Support Available in the Shippo API”
