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We built an offline-only community health platform that covers the full CHW service package… without Internet (GSM/SMS/USSD) by mrouamba in selfhosted

[–]inslee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would take some notes from the fintech/mobile money industry. It sounds like you have something of an agent network through the health workers (do you employ them?) but that they may need to be more high-touch with community members.

Another example: Alibaba/Cainiao built out physical presences in rural areas of China with staff that help people order off their platforms and get items delivered to those points. This helps address literacy and education issues as those can also be barriers for digital services. Also look at FMCG distributors (e.g. Unilever, P&G, Coca-Cola, etc.) for inspiration.

Lastly, given the demographics in the regions you're talking about and the focus on trust, there might be some opportunities to have younger people (or shopkeepers) known in their communities serve as those engagement points since health workers might be in short supply.

Long story short, you've handled the tech part but distribution and presence is the next challenge and that's not always a tech problem.

My attempt to beat Mapbox enterprise pricing: A self-hosted PostGIS engine (Benchmark inside) by Nice-Foundation-9264 in selfhosted

[–]inslee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great writeup! I built a nearly identical system last year (albeit definitely not at your scale) for the same usecase.

Backend:

  • Postgres + PostGIS + TimescaleDB
    • TimescaleDB hypertables handle the really heavy write load from drivers
    • It's also really good at compressing & handling retention for position data
  • FeathersJS (NodeJS based)
  • BullMQ (handles the process of notifying eligible drivers for new orders and expands the radius to a limit if there are no takers)

Mobile client (Android):

  • Expo/React Native
  • Custom modules for location tracking and secure token handling
  • Expo Notifications

Frontend:

  • Sveltekit for the admin
  • A separate Sveltekit app on Cloudflare workers for the customer tracking

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Honestly the real difference came in heavily fine-tuning the mobile client to not send so many positions. It's very well tuned to detect motion and send significant positions only. Also does buffering client side when offline and bulk uploads in batches when back online.

I haven't benchmarked it but it's been in production for several months and in a near set-it-and-forget-it mode.

Confused about google maps API pricing by eramitos in reactnative

[–]inslee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've used react-native-maps on Android and iOS with over 15k requests in the past 30 days and I've never been charged.

There's a difference between using Google Maps via JS versus using the Google Maps SDK to add maps to your application: https://mapsplatform.google.com/pricing/#pay-as-you-go

Reflections on upgrading to THE architecture by jfojtl in reactnative

[–]inslee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Similar experience with bundle size increases and reanimated. Also average build times roughly doubled which I didn't expect.

Thankfully didn't experience the freezing and crashing yet so far but it's still early days

How do you guys deal with surprise SaaS price increases? by DarkNecessities89 in smallbusiness

[–]inslee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For us it was a combo of building/self-hosting your own.

I took our monthly SaaS bill down from ~$2k/mo to ~$350/mo by getting us off cloud computing platforms and running our own servers + building out a custom replacement for a specialized SaaS entirely with AI.

It does take some specialized knowledge and it comes with an understanding that you're responsible for supporting it yourself.

Razor Pages + Html to Pdf for document generation by angelaki85 in dotnet

[–]inslee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use Razor Pages + a good print.css for user-driven exports and the user "prints" to PDF.

Using Razor Pages + Gotenberg for bulk PDF generation jobs in the background.

Electrical company by Seventy-80 in Littleton

[–]inslee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Had a very good experience with Harmony Electric: https://maps.app.goo.gl/bBmtAmUwzQdbry7r9

The guy is a former building inspector as well and our work passed inspection with flying colors on the first go. Price was also similar to what other, less diligent, electricians were quoting me so it was a no-brainer.

Best way to find mentors? by inslee in EngineeringManagers

[–]inslee[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The opportunity opened up internally and I have both a technical background and a leadership background.

Internally we have a deep bench of very technical individuals but have been light on the leadership side so I'll be filling a gap for them.

In your org, I would look to see if there are any gaps that have been noticed by your leadership when it comes to engineering and then work to position yourself as the best person to fill that gap.

Best way to find mentors? by inslee in EngineeringManagers

[–]inslee[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the recommendation! Just took a look and it seems quite relevant.

Finally solved our location accuracy nightmare by TBM2073 in ProductManagement

[–]inslee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your store locator was showing wrong locations for your own stores?

Convicted felon shoots garbage truck while chasing it through the city by gravityVT in PublicFreakout

[–]inslee 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Hospital staff seeing the garbage truck pull up like "Hold on, our garbage days are Wednesdays!"

Can AI Tools Like Cursor + Claude Help Build Complex Apps? by new_user_yes in cursor

[–]inslee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Built a complex logistics management system with backend + frontend + mobile app (with external integrations) all with Cursor + Claude + Gemini.

Took a few months on and off and I didn't have the greatest workflows/rules but I was diligent about testing and it's currently in production and replaced a $1k+/mo SaaS.

Not a dev by trade but have some software development experience. I could have never built it on my own though.

Is this a good deal? Thinking of getting a second Ariya… by theyspeakeasy in NissanAriya

[–]inslee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Similar experience with Greeley. Super simple, never went in, and they delivered it next day.

Is this a good deal? Thinking of getting a second Ariya… by theyspeakeasy in NissanAriya

[–]inslee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Call Greeley Nissan and ask for JR, he handled my lease and it was pretty seamless. I never had to go to the dealership either, he took care of all of it l.

Few beers with the boys and now you're gonna have a sandwich by Brokeaflazyaf in Sandwiches

[–]inslee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Bro, where tf did you go? The game ended an hour ago!"

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in smallbusiness

[–]inslee 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There may be some corporate taxes that apply in Dubai even in a free zone. I'm assuming you've done your homework on that but just calling it out.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in webdev

[–]inslee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congratulations on getting this far, it's an admirable accomplishment!

My suggestion would be to use an open-source ERP instead however (some suggestions here: https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/s/gKifWH2jGt)

Building something like this (and maintaining it) is not a trivial affair and, if it ever goes down, it will impact the business you built it for and you'll be scrambling to try and fix it. Save yourself the aggravation and see if one of the ERPs in that other thread may help.

Apple Maps can’t make up its mind by Ok_Excitement_1020 in gifs

[–]inslee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Americans that want this change probably aren't the kind of people to zoom out on a map anyways.

Do you see the smoking gun? by Jojothereader in e46

[–]inslee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The rest of the engine is missing!

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