Uber is closing alcohol delivery service Drizly three years after acquistion
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Sucks for Bostonians though, another tech-ish company gone from the downtown roster
The important piece of that vendor contract however was the integration with the point-of-sale system of each liquor shop. That's how Drizly knew what was on the shelf, and was able to sell inventory.
Drizly was one of our customers at my earlier company where I learned about these integrations. The world of POS systems is highly fragmented and arcane - there's no one system.
One asset that Drizly had developed was an integration platform that connected to any possible POS any of the liquor stores were using. No one else had done that. They just kept chipping away at it. Literally every sprint, they'd add more integrations. I believe the goal was 2 integrations per sprint. That includes data model, etc. to create the analytics downstream.
That integration platform was almost something like a natural monopoly. Hard to replicate by another party.
It was nice ordering liquor to a hotel room on a road trip in an unfamiliar city after a long day's drive when I didn't want to go back out again. I think that's the only time I've ordered from Drizly in the past year.
"but never came did" Is this a grammar mistake or am I reading it incorrectly? Am I going out on a limb thinking that Techcrunch might be leaning into LLMs and reducing their editor's oversight.
It's really annoying when delivery comes up here or on reddit and 90% of the comments are from people who live in the suburbs, or obscenely frugal and that drive everywhere telling everyone else that they should "stop supporting delivery companies they're gouging you." Like, no kidding. It's convenience. And some people are disabled, no cars, disposable income, etc.
If they lived where I lived with no car they would be absolutely mind blown at how much of a pain in the ass and how long it actually takes to go to my pharmacy (3.5 miles away, 20 minutes one way via car, 45-60 bus, I'm in a food desert) and back without their cars. And a huge portion of the population has to deal with that to pick up prescriptions, groceries, etc. I WFH and I have to schedule 2 hours off work every 2 weeks to drive *4* miles to get my haircut (cuts about 35 mins, drives about 30 minutes one way) and I still come back 10-20 minutes late all the time.
I'll happily pay the $5-15 extra to not deal with any of it.
Probably both design teams ripped off the same stock artwork for a bear by tracing it.
Also if you take asmartbear at his word, that sort of implies he at least somewhat believes his designer :) If he didn't think his designer had any scruples about saying that they made that, I don't think he'd have said it so plainly, as "was made by a freelance designer"
It's just a traced vector of a bear. Again, as someone who is familiar with this process, if we were just going to steal something, we would have put a bit of effort into not looking stolen.
Even an amazing designer can't make a silhouette of a bear from memory and he probably didn't take the photo himself. So he surely stole from something else too.