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inslee1 | 8 months ago

Just built a last-mile logistics management solution to replace a SaaS solution for a delivery company I used to be involved with.

Handles everything from real-time driver tracking, public order tracking links, finding suitable drivers for orders, batch push notifications for automatic order assignment, etc.

Backend: Feathers.JS, Postgres + TimescaleDB & PostGIS, BullMQ, Valhalla (for multi-stop route optimization although most of our deliveries are on-demand)

Frontend: SvelteKit

Mobile App (Android only for now): React Native/Expo, Zustand, Expo push notifications, and two custom native modules for secure token storage and efficient real-time GPS tracking. The tracking was probably the toughest to get right to find the best balance between battery/data efficiency and more frequent updates.

Been testing it for a couple weeks and as of last week, that company moved their operations over to it with 50+ drivers and thousands of orders processed through it so far (in a country with pretty unreliable connectivity/infrastructure).

I built it initially as a favor but open to other applications for it.

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zenger|8 months ago

Would you be interested in sharing the code? I'm working a similar project and wouldn't mind exploring your code base.

inslee1|8 months ago

Unfortunately its closed source at the moment but happy to discuss the problem space. E-mail in bio.

ascendantlogic|8 months ago

> I built it initially as a favor

That's a hell of a favor. Is this something you built by yourself or were you part of a larger team?

inslee1|8 months ago

I guess it's not ENTIRELY a favor since I founded that company but stepped away a few years back and always felt a bit guilty ever since. They certainly weren't expecting me to build it though.

I built it all myself (including the integration with our ordering platform) It was sort of my white whale project that I've always wanted to do but didn't have the chops/time.

The advancements in AI-assisted coding encouraged me to give it a shot though and the results turned out great. It was a heavily supervised vibe-coding project that turned into a production-ready system.

stripekit|8 months ago

Sounds very interesting. I'd love to take a look if open source?