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bavidar

1,382 karma · joined July 7, 2012

CEO & Co-Founder of Lob.com

Former Amazon Web Services, wall street trader/quant. www.leoreavidar.com

Email: leore@lob.com

YC Badge: 0xdcd600891d34f19c44ba6f847b003c352c4be300

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bavidar··on Lowering Postcard Pricing
We can do other sizes. We are currently redoing our site but will publicize the new sizes soon.
bavidar··on Building Lob's API
you can paginate however you want. The default is the return 10. You can return an amount 1-100 and use the offset parameter to get the next X results.
bavidar··on Building Lob's API
Founder here. Returning total count is a very expensive action and most users don't use the result. Therefore, by returning paginated results you can allow the users that need that data, to loop through all the paginated pages and get the total count. It may add an extra step but for 98% of users the API will run faster.
bavidar··on Lob (YC S13) Debuts a Cloud Printing and Shipping Service for Developers
Postage is .46 for letter, .33 cents for postcard, everything that is shipped varies on destination. We ship worldwide.
bavidar··on Show HN: REST API for Global Address Verification
Would happy to give you some test credits to validate our data source. Also we do offer tiered pricing, please feel free to contact me directly for more details.
bavidar··on Show HN: REST API for Global Address Verification
We have the ability and might open the api more but right now we wanted to make it simple. PM and we can talk about your specific use case.
bavidar··on Show HN: REST API for Global Address Verification
We use data provided by local post offices from the country you specify. It was really hard to build, aggregate the data, and than standardize the input and output. Would appreciate any feedback you have on it.
bavidar··on Show HN: REST API for Global Address Verification
You can. Email me...leore@lob.com and ill give you some credits. Happy to talk about pricing too.
bavidar··on Show HN: REST API for Global Address Verification
Yes
bavidar··on Show HN: REST API for Global Address Verification
Only way to judge is to test it out. Our data comes from the local post office of every country. We have street level address verification. Happy to give you some free credits to try it yourself just email me.
bavidar··on Show HN: Stripe for Printing
These are printed on high quality printers. Yes you can choose between stock and finishing.
bavidar··on Show HN: Stripe for Printing
Yes we can do this. However, currently they would have to pay you and you would have to pay us.
bavidar··on Show HN: Stripe for Printing
Would love to talk and understand how you imagine this would work. DM me.
bavidar··on Show HN: Stripe for Printing
Soon. We can work with you to get this started!
bavidar··on Show HN: Stripe for Printing
We offer it to a few customers who use it. Still trying to figure out the best way to offer it publicly. Happy to work with you if this is something you are looking to do. We definitely need more feedback on this one.
bavidar··on Show HN: Stripe for Printing
We just started doing poster printing for some customers. Let me know what you are looking to print and we can have it integrated into the API
bavidar··on Show HN: Stripe for Printing
Thanks and good to hear. Keep the feedback coming! Its all about iterating based on what users say.
bavidar··on Show HN: Stripe for Printing
Everywhere. contact me directly if you want international we are piloting this with a few select customers right now.
bavidar··on Show HN: Send snail mail from the web
still working out on the best method to do international postage. Its in the works.
bavidar··on Show HN: Send snail mail from the web
This has been added now.
bavidar··on Show HN: Send snail mail from the web
not that specific yet. We only have a few edge locations. You can however specify the return address.
bavidar··on Show HN: Send snail mail from the web
Nice catch. I'll fix the link. Currently only alpha users can see all that info. We are adding more users each day.
bavidar··on Show HN: Send snail mail from the web
our current goal is to create a platform and allow other developers to create consumer applications. We want to be the AWS of printing services. There are so many ways to use this API and we want to provide the tools to developers.
bavidar··on Show HN: Send snail mail from the web
This is an example app that can be created via our Printing API. Thanks you all for the feedback. Any type of input is helpful.
bavidar··on Show HN: Send snail mail from the web
We have commercial printers in edge locations fulfilling our backend.

Infraprint is a Printing API not a client application. The direct mail application was built to demonstrate the power of the API and what you can build with it. With the API you can integrate printing into any application. You can print documents, photos, books, flyers, postcards, etc without owning the actual infrastructure. All printing is done through REST

bavidar··on Show HN: Send snail mail from the web
We offer a full variety of print services via an API. Think of us an an AWS for printing not just sending letters. Postal Methods also require you to prepay usage while we require you only to pay for what you consume.
bavidar··on Show HN: Send snail mail from the web
All in the works. Would love your input send me a DM.
bavidar··on Show HN: Send snail mail from the web
You can choose the address from which it is sent from. Time to recipient (TTR) is actually faster as we print the collateral closest to the destination city. Think edge print centers very similar to how CDN works.
bavidar··on Show HN: Send snail mail from the web
Huge commercial machines. They print, pack documents in envelopes, pre-stamp, and then put in a container which USPS picks up. All automated.
bavidar··on Show HN: Send snail mail from the web
It is fully automated. Sign up for the alpha if you are interested. You can print: letter, postcards, etc on various paper types, colors, and sizes.
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