HyperTrack Blog: Imagine. Build. Repeat.

“We just implemented it.” Our Q&A with TopServe

Canadian restaurant tech firm TopServe used HyperTrack’s open source app to launch a food delivery app in one week.

The new Nearby API: on-demand dispatch and routing just got easier

Now, it’s easier than ever to launch and run an on-demand commerce operation with the sophistication of the Bat Cave.

September update: Nearby API, SDKs for Cordova and Ionic, partnership opportunities...

New!: Locate app users on demand and figure out which ones are closet to a location of interest. It’s a powerful tool for building dispatch and route automation.

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“It’s made a big, big difference.” Our Q&A with Groundworks

Groundworks operates basement and crawlspace repair brands across the U.S. We checked in to learn how they use HyperTrack live location intelligence.

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Let’s move up-stack

Jonathan E Cowperthwait is HyperTrack’s new Vice President of Partnerships. Why partnerships? Why now?

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Impact of iOS13 and iOS14 permissions on background location access

Consumers expect apps to access location while the app is in use in the foreground. Users have different expectations from work apps. Workforce apps stay in the background most of the time. Business uses high-frequency location for routing orders and order tracking.

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5 ways to catch no-shows before they happen

No-shows are the worst nightmare for logistics fleets. No operations manager wants to spend hours in a day finding out about a no-show from the customer, and then scramble in the moment of anxiety to rescue the situation.

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Accurate distance computation using location and maps

Distance is money. For businesses on the move, distance covered by the fleet is used to reimburse fuel, pay out contractors, charge customers, and expense workers. Inaccuracies in either direction lead to friction between the payer and payee. And yet, accurate distance computations remain evasive.

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Supply chain transformation from distribution to fulfillment

The past decade witnessed a profound shift in consumer behavior for food, groceries and medicines from in-store to at-home experiences due to convenience. The global pandemic caused an overnight shift due to compulsion. Retail chains must accelerate their transformation now.

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Introducing Playground for developers to build their live location use case

Product development teams can now build live location use cases within minutes using Playground. It brings the power of live location tracking at your fingertips. You can control tracking of devices from the cloud and get inline code snippets to copy-paste into your application.

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Helping essential service fleets respond to COVID-19 worldwide

We are committed to the safety of the essential service workforces and the communities that they service. As the novel coronavirus sweeps the world, we wanted to see how the patterns of service workforces changed with government mandated social distancing.

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Live location tracking with Node.js and Python

Product development teams around the world are creating applications powered by real-time location tracking. Now these teams have the power at their fingertips to control tracking on mobile devices with Node.js and Python code running in the cloud.

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Location history of app users as a timeline

Mobile phones have powerful sensors to log detailed information about your app users' movements with their permission. Replaying the location time-series as a polyline on the map makes the journey come to life.

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Evolution of location access on Android

As more apps started using location in the background, and sending this data to servers for use by applications outside the device, Android started setting some rules of the game to manage battery drain and user privacy. The Android platform has evolved significantly with Android 8 and onward.

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Live location dashboards for large field operations teams

Operations managers for large fleets require the proper tools to map their tracked assets, identify anomalies, and foster an efficient workforce.

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Build your own location-aware logistics app in an hour

Mobile apps are driving the digital transformation of logistics. Modern workforce and fleet automation solutions must have a location-aware mobile app for drivers as they are out and about performing their deliveries and service visits.

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Free 100k events per month in your developer account

Building live location apps is harder than it needs to be. HyperTrack is the easiest way to build live location apps for businesses. Today, we are extending our free tier to 100k events per month. Let your imagination run wild and build away.

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Spin up your own ride-sharing app in an hour

We were encouraged when the developer community went nuts with the open-source Uber-for-X sample app built with HyperTrack in 2017. Since then, we’ve only seen more and more demand from ridesharing, gig economy and Uber-for-X apps using HyperTrack for live location.

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A&B Courier builds asset management application with location tracking

A&B Courier, the leading courier and trucking company of Ontario, Canada, has built an in-house asset management application with HyperTrack's live location tracking APIs. A&B Courier is a 39-year young logistics company with significant delivery volume on the move on any given day.

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Add live location tracking to any app in minutes — and my HyperTrack story

This is a guest blog by Gavin Sherry (Co-founder and CEO of Autonomic, now a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company) who recently joined the HyperTrack Board of Directors. Prior to Autonomic, he was

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Digital transformation of enterprise fleets

HyperTrack is the live location API for developers to build software eating the world that moves. Live location is the dot that connects this physical world with software.

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redBus launches ridesharing with live location tracking

redBus is the world’s largest online bus ticket booking service trusted by over 20 million users. In June 2019, we launched a ride-sharing service rPool (bike-pool and car-pool) for our users to commute smartly where they can reduce traffic and also save money on their daily commutes.

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Build live location dashboards for operations managers in 3 steps

Forward-thinking fleet and workforce managers are building apps for their teams to manage work while on the go. HyperTrack makes these apps location-aware. In-app telematics provides powerful insights on the fleet's key performance indicators.

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Build live location sharing for customers in 3 steps

Businesses delivering products and services to customers within time-critical windows have started using apps for their mobile workforce to manage their work. Now, these apps need to become location-aware like those ridesharing apps. It’s as easy as 1 - 2 - 3.

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Open source sample app to track the movement history of your workforce

We built an app to track our movement throughout the day and discovered that you could benefit from it. Today, we're releasing it as an open-source sample app.

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