[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":458},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-4538949":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":29,"sentiment":30,"stance_mix":31,"scored_comments":36,"aspects":37,"strip":48,"post_text":50,"what":51,"said":76,"maker_in_thread":205,"shape":215,"grid":218,"attempts":421,"same_week":422,"maker_shows":41,"maker_hidden":450,"reader_version":451,"card":452},"4538949","EasyPost","the Stripe for postage","title","Show HN: EasyPost - the Stripe for postage","http:\u002F\u002Feasypost.co","easypost.co","jstreebin",1347985598,2012,157,83,120,1677,8,"notable","web_saas","shipping and postage api","api",[24,25,26,27,28],"postage api","shipping api","address verification","shipping labels","usps api","curious",0.191,{"positive":32,"neutral":33,"mixed":34,"critical":35},15,25,0,6,46,{"idea":38,"privacy":40,"pricing":42,"execution":44,"design":45,"docs":47},{"positive":39,"critical":34},9,{"positive":34,"critical":41},1,{"positive":43,"critical":34},2,{"positive":34,"critical":34},{"positive":34,"critical":46},3,{"positive":34,"critical":41},[46,46,49,46,49,34,46,41,46,49,46,49,49,46,49,46,34,49,46,41,46,49,49,49,46,41,46,46,49,46,46,46,49,34,41,41,34,34,46,49],5,null,{"problem":52,"audience":62,"pricing":50,"motivation":50,"time_to_build":50,"stack":73,"openness":74,"stage":75,"team_size":74},{"value":53,"source":54,"evidence":55},"Postage and shipping integration with carriers takes too much developer time","maker",[56,59],{"id":57,"by":11,"text":58},"4539158","Exactly, that's what I\"m hearing from a lot of potentials--too much dev time to get postage working",{"id":60,"by":11,"text":61},"4539166","Cool! Exactly what I've seen with my own integration. Huge pain points here",{"value":63,"source":64,"evidence":65},"Ecommerce and businesses that ship packages or mail","inferred",[66,69],{"id":67,"by":11,"text":68},"4539217","Excellent. Yes, I'm hearing from a lot of potential customers that they're having to pull in address verification from one source, labels from another, and all hacked together in…",{"id":70,"by":71,"text":72},"4539144","frankdenbow","Would love to use this for my ecommerce site (StartupThreads) as we move to a custom system. Most interested in the shipping price comparison: what providers are you supporting?",[],"unknown","prototype",{"praise":77,"objections":105,"requests":128,"questions":155,"alternatives":167},[78,94],{"value":79,"source":80,"evidence":81},"Address verification is wanted and would be paid for","commenter",[82,86,90],{"id":83,"by":84,"text":85},"4539198","avidal","This is exactly what I'm looking for. I'm really hoping I don't have to integrate with FedEx web services for address verification. If the price is right, my company will gladly…",{"id":87,"by":88,"text":89},"4539328","meritt","We're currently using Google's Geocoder and Yahoo's Placefinder, which work okay, but they both have numerous flaws and various TOS policies we're ignoring for the moment. Would…",{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},"4543048","nchuhoai","Would totally use this for address verification. Wonder what the pricing is.",{"value":95,"source":80,"evidence":96},"Would save integration dev time for USPS, UPS and FedEx",[97,101],{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"4539128","waterside81","For Canadian customers, Canada Post has finally added an API to create & print labels. My company uses Stamps.com's API to print USPS labels (I have Django code if anyone's…",{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},"4539100","chao-","As someone who is just now tackling USPS integration for the first time on behalf of a client, you certainly have my interest.",[106,117],{"value":107,"source":80,"evidence":108},"Bootstrap UI looks unpolished",[109,113],{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},"4539087","highace","Ugh, I'm starting to get sick of Bootstrap. You've got a great idea and you remove value from it with bootstrap... How integral can your product be if you can't even give it a…",{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},"4539612","oinksoft","Hm, my impression is more along the lines of, \"this probably was hacked together in a weekend and might be discarded in another.\" It's not a fair impression, but my snap judgment…",{"value":118,"source":80,"evidence":119},"Carrier API terms may forbid rate comparison",[120,124],{"id":121,"by":122,"text":123},"4539177","Aqua_Geek","Out of curiosity, how are you doing this? IIRC a few years ago when I was playing around with the FedEx API it explicitly forbade using it for price comparison with other…",{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"4539675","marcrosoft","It is still the same, you can't even have other carrier rates near UPS rates.",[129,140,148],{"value":130,"source":80,"evidence":131},"Support for international shipping",[132,136],{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"4539201","shreep","Very nice. Would you plan to offer international shipping options ? Just out of curiosity, what mapping engine are you using to geocode?",{"id":137,"by":138,"text":139},"4539752","nulluk","International is where this could really shine, print out at the location closest to where the letter needs delivering & avoid international prices",{"value":141,"source":80,"evidence":142},"Syntax highlighting and clearer API docs",[143,147],{"id":144,"by":145,"text":146},"4539099","kmfrk","Could you add syntax-highlighting to the examples? Using httpie as an alternative to curl would also make that easier. :)",{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},{"value":149,"source":80,"evidence":150},"Return labels as PNG or PDF via Accept header",[151],{"id":152,"by":153,"text":154},"4539493","biot","You could bake this into the REST API via the \"Accept:\" header. The default when not specified is whatever you set, but the caller can specify \"Accept: image\u002Fpng\" to get a PNG…",[156,160],{"value":157,"source":80,"evidence":158},"Which shipping carriers are supported",[159],{"id":70,"by":71,"text":72},{"value":161,"source":80,"evidence":162},"Whether first class stamps can be printed",[163],{"id":164,"by":165,"text":166},"4539188","mindslight","Somewhat related question - are these types of services capable of printing first class letter postage ie something to use in place of a \"forever\" stamp?",[168,175,186,194],{"value":169,"source":80,"evidence":170},"RocketShipIt desktop software",[171],{"id":172,"by":173,"text":174},"4539209","jontas","I've been using this for years now and love it: https:\u002F\u002Frocketship.it\u002F It is a slightly different concept, you pay once and get code that gives you a uniform interface for…",{"value":176,"source":80,"evidence":177},"PostalMethods",[178,182],{"id":179,"by":180,"text":181},"4540001","toomuchtodo","http:\u002F\u002Fwww.postalmethods.com\u002F",{"id":183,"by":184,"text":185},"4539398","johns","http:\u002F\u002Fwww.postalmethods.com\u002Flp\u002Fpostcard-api http:\u002F\u002Fwww.viapost.com\u002F I know there are others too but I can't find them at the moment.",{"value":187,"source":80,"evidence":188},"Stamps.com API",[189,193],{"id":190,"by":191,"text":192},"4539955","kenrikm","Stamps.com uses SOAP and is terrible. I would love a nice Json\u002FREST based shipping API.",{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},{"value":195,"source":80,"evidence":196},"Sincerely API and Click2Mail",[197,201],{"id":198,"by":199,"text":200},"4539696","scottmotte","http:\u002F\u002Fdev.sincerely.com\u002F is another.",{"id":202,"by":203,"text":204},"4540331","lost-theory","I looked for a service like that a year or so ago and found this: https:\u002F\u002Fclick2mail.com\u002Femail-to-mail At the time their signup process was broken so I couldn't test it out, but…",{"comments":206,"answered":39,"key":207},23,[208,211,212],{"id":209,"text":210},"4539308","I thought of this one, too. It'd be great for a higher touch marketing message.",{"id":67,"text":68},{"id":213,"text":214},"4539161","API not up yet, sry",{"commenters":216,"max_depth":39,"maker_replies":206,"first_comment_mins":35,"lifespan_hours":217},50,24,[219,221,224,227,231,232,236,239,243,244,245,249,251,252,255,259,262,263,264,265,268,271,274,277,279,281,282,284,289,290,293,296,299,302,304,307,309,310,314,317,320,322,324,327,328,329,331,335,337,339,341,342,344,347,349,351,353,356,358,362,364,366,368,369,371,373,375,379,381,385,387,391,395,397,399,403,405,407,410,412,414,416,418],[172,34,46,220,173,34],"project\u002Fneutral\u002Fnone",[222,34,34,223,126,34],"4539618","commenter\u002Fneutral\u002Fnone",[225,34,34,223,226,34],"4541423","erikpukinskis",[228,41,46,229,230,34],"4539729","project\u002Fneutral\u002Fidea","kaolinite",[137,41,46,229,138,34],[233,41,49,234,235,34],"4539772","project\u002Fpositive\u002Fidea","gsibble",[237,41,46,229,238,34],"4542392","bobbles",[240,41,34,241,242,34],"4542752","commenter\u002Fneutral\u002Fpricing","dagw",[190,41,49,234,191,34],[179,41,46,229,180,34],[246,41,34,247,248,34],"4540449","other\u002Fneutral\u002Fnone","jtheory",[250,41,34,247,180,34],"4544324",[202,41,34,247,203,34],[253,41,46,229,254,34],"4540731","ryanw",[256,41,41,257,258,34],"4541962","project\u002Fcritical\u002Fprivacy","salman89",[260,43,46,229,261,34],"4539295","philip1209",[209,43,34,234,11,41],[183,43,46,220,184,34],[198,43,46,220,199,34],[266,43,49,234,267,34],"4539399","mikle",[269,43,46,220,270,34],"4539406","vyrotek",[272,43,34,247,273,34],"4539908","russnewcomer",[275,46,49,276,88,34],"4539162","project\u002Fpositive\u002Fnone",[83,46,49,278,84,34],"project\u002Fpositive\u002Fpricing",[67,46,34,280,11,41],"maker\u002Fneutral\u002Fnone",[87,46,49,278,88,34],[283,46,46,220,126,34],"4539635",[285,286,46,287,288,34],"4539106",4,"project\u002Fneutral\u002Fexecution","patrickod",[213,286,34,280,11,41],[291,49,49,234,292,34],"4542552","thibaultj",[294,35,46,229,295,34],"4539949","robomartin",[297,35,46,229,298,34],"4540017","ajryan",[300,35,34,223,301,34],"4540191","jplewicke",[303,35,34,223,295,34],"4540288",[305,35,34,223,306,34],"4541577","NSAID",[102,308,49,234,103,34],7,[60,308,34,280,11,41],[311,18,46,312,313,34],"4539315","project\u002Fneutral\u002Fdesign","fuzzythinker",[315,18,34,316,11,41],"4539377","maker\u002Fneutral\u002Fdesign",[318,18,41,319,313,34],"4539472","project\u002Fcritical\u002Fdesign",[321,18,34,316,11,41],"4539490",[323,18,34,316,11,41],"4539502",[325,18,46,326,313,34],"4539516","project\u002Fneutral\u002Fdocs",[98,39,49,234,99,34],[57,39,34,280,11,41],[91,330,49,276,92,34],10,[332,333,46,312,334,34],"4539028",11,"striglia",[336,333,34,280,11,41],"4539040",[70,338,49,234,71,34],12,[340,338,34,220,11,41],"4539153",[121,338,46,220,122,34],[125,338,41,343,126,34],"project\u002Fcritical\u002Fnone",[164,345,46,346,165,34],13,"project\u002Fneutral\u002Fpricing",[348,345,34,280,11,41],"4539463",[133,350,46,220,134,34],14,[352,350,34,280,11,41],"4539469",[354,32,46,312,355,34],"4540862","lbotos",[357,32,34,316,11,41],"4540893",[359,360,49,276,361,34],"4538982",16,"shiftb",[363,360,34,280,11,41],"4539002",[365,360,46,287,99,34],"4539145",[367,360,34,287,11,41],"4539184",[152,360,46,287,153,34],[370,360,34,223,11,41],"4539915",[144,372,46,326,145,34],17,[374,372,34,223,11,41],"4539113",[376,377,49,234,378,34],"4539127",18,"zachwill",[380,377,34,223,11,41],"4539208",[382,383,34,247,384,34],"4540729",19,"benlower",[386,383,34,247,11,41],"4540745",[388,389,46,229,390,34],"4540536",20,"jjohn",[392,393,41,319,394,34],"4539055",21,"stefanobernardi",[396,393,34,312,11,41],"4539092",[110,398,41,319,111,34],22,[400,398,34,401,402,34],"4539164","commenter\u002Fneutral\u002Fdesign","crcsmnky",[404,398,34,401,11,41],"4539193",[406,398,34,401,111,34],"4539451",[408,398,34,401,409,34],"4539506","girasquid",[114,398,41,411,115,34],"project\u002Fcritical\u002Fdocs",[413,398,49,234,180,34],"4540029",[415,398,34,223,11,41],"4540465",[417,398,49,276,180,34],"4542002",[419,398,34,420,11,41],"4539510","commenter\u002Fneutral\u002Fidea",[],[423,427,432,437,442,446],{"id":424,"name":425,"points":426,"category":20},"4517611","ScrollKit",131,{"id":428,"name":429,"points":430,"category":431},"4516576","Matches.js",96,"languages",{"id":433,"name":434,"points":435,"category":436},"4532754","Roll20",74,"games",{"id":438,"name":439,"points":440,"category":441},"4545078","Screenleap",59,"dev_tools",{"id":443,"name":444,"points":445,"category":20},"4540076","HN Tees",53,{"id":447,"name":448,"points":449,"category":441},"4539910","instafilter.io",47,false,"v2",{"id":453,"name":5,"line":6,"ai":450,"cat":20,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rec":29,"s":454,"top":18,"kw":455,"maker":11,"domain":10,"tier":19,"attempts":34,"strip":456,"url":9,"mix":457,"praise":79,"objection":107,"sub":21},4538949,0.19,[24,25,26,27,28],"3353503135355353053135553133533350110035",[32,33,34,35],1794036499589]