Ask HN: Best way to make a service like Uber, but for logistics?

1 points by itsashis4u 10 years ago | 2 comments

Hi HN, I'm planning of making a platform which connects customers with transporters. What is the best approach to design the architecture? What should I keep in mind?

anilgulecha 10 years ago |

Start with an excel sheet.. manually connect customers and transporters. Once that does not work anymore, you'll have learned how the workflow goes, and can build the app accordingly.

steviee 10 years ago |

Hi,

just take the platform you're most comfortable with (Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Node/Express, ASP.NET, whatever...) and implement your smallest possible product/service use cases (MVP-like) and ask your peers or future-customers to start working with it.

Then iterate though all the issues and suggestions to improve it.

First rule would be to get SOMETHING WORKING online asap.

You can go from there. When you're making money, start improving the product and the technology.

To address your needs you need to know what you need first. :)

Best regards, Steviee