Thanks for the great feedback and the compliment! You're right, the sorting feature is still not functioning well. It's on the to do list (the to dos are pilling up with all the great feedback we're getting here:)). Thanks for letting me know!
Hi kd5bja, valid question. The statement you quoted is our vision for the future. We just launched with our MVP and we're working on the courier side to get as many courier services into our database as possible. At the moment we don't cover all courier services globally. We've got the courier services from Germany, UK, Sweden, Finland and Norway in our database. That's why it's only 11 couriers. I hope for your understanding and I really hope that we can reach our vision soon.
Hey caublestone, thanks for the compliment. Which country are you in? Is it in our database already? If not I'll include it for you.
Also, I'm really happy to offer everybody from HN the service without taking commission for a test phase in exchange for occasional feedback. Let me know if interested. You can reach me on laura(at)goshippo.com
I'm sorry, Ye. I really am super sorry about the server problems and I apologise to everybody who can't access the site. We simply did not expect such an overwhelming response from the HN community and we weren't prepared for it. Again, I apologise for the inconvenience and hope for your patience and understanding
Hey canistr, thanks for the feedback? Where are you based? I'd love to offer everybody here on HN the service without taking commission for a trial period in exchange for occasional feedback. Why don't you message me at laura(at)goshippo.com and we can talk
Hey arush, thanks for the positive feedback! I'm sorry about the server problem. We weren't expecting that many clicks when I posted it on HN... ;) We'll be based in SF starting from next week Tuesday. Want to move this conversation to email? I'm laura(at)goshippo.com
PPS.: If you want to send something and your country is not in our database, please let me know asap and we'll insert the country into our database for you.
I saw that somebody tweeted that India would be interesting - we've already negotiated the prices and will have them in the database soon. Email me at laura (at) goshippo.com
Awesome, agnuku. Please let me know which country you need as an outbound country and I'll add the country into our database asap in case it's not already in there! And please do send me a msg on laura (at) goshippo.com. I'm happy to give everybody here from HN the service without taking commission.
Hey adyus, valid question. FedEx and UPS have similar points in their T&Cs that talk about comparison. Feel free to get in touch personally to talk about possible solutions!
Thanks for the feedback. Yes, this is exactly what we're trying to do. Looking for beta customers at the moment that offer platforms to connect buyers and sellers. For them the price and convenience counts. If anybody here wants to beta test, ping me!
Hey geekyguy, thanks for clicking on the link and I'll have to apologize about the server problem. I'm really really sorry. I didn't expect the HN community would be that interested about Shippo... The server should normally adjust automatically to the traffic but somehow it's trashed right now. Sorry again for the inconvenience!
Thanks for the suggestion, ozh! I'm sorry about the server problem. I didn't expect such an overwhelming response rate on HN and all we can do now is stare at GA in disbelieve ;)
hahaha, yes that's the HN effect. I didn't expect that that many people would click on it and we're now staring at GA overwhelmed by the response... Can't even work on the bugs now because the server got so slow.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Hey 67726e, you're right. We're currently showing the best rates for these countries, meaning that we have more than one courier provider for them in our database to allow comparison. All the other countries should work nevertheless simply without "good" (cheap) rates. So it's our bad, apologies!
Which country are you in? I'm taking suggestions which ones to include next ;) Just finished negotiating with some Indian courier services and will insert them into the database soon! Will then have a look at China next... Please do let me know which countries you want to see next.