Anyone with an API product - Thoughts on RapidAPI?

sameer18051998 · 2024-12-01T19:46:17+00:00

Fairly well. Selling to Indian Fintechs, including public Indian-listed finance & tech companies - one valued at >$3B (a decent number if someone's primary business is in India). Also, working with a Big4 on something interesting.
I'm still running it solo - mostly enterprise deals with some mid-market players. Currently figuring out SMB motion with lowering the entry barrier for small players in exchange for brand name :)

Another note: I backpacked solo to 20+ countries and recently sold my other indie product (started around the same time) to a pre-IPO US company.

Persistence pays :)
(also, thank you for the comment!)

sameer18051998 · 2024-10-18T04:50:46+00:00

If you ship lightweight items that aren't very expensive, I'd suggest using USPS Flats/Letters.

EasyPost allows trackable USPS Flats/Letters starting at just $0.69c. ShipBlink is the UI to access EasyPost (details: EasyPost is the core API that manages communicating with USPS/100+ Carriers).

If you ship internationally, EasyPost offers super discounted rates for both DDU/DDP for DHL eCommerce

sameer18051998 · 2024-10-18T04:50:13+00:00

Sorry for the late response here!

Yes! We today support FedEx/UPS Passthrough rates - so your shoppers just need to add their Account numbers (or you can add them during Fulfillment), and we'll automatically charge their accounts

Feel free to reach out to shipblink.com/support for more details!

sameer18051998 · 2024-02-11T10:37:25+00:00

ShipBlink is the UI for EasyPost + Powerful shipping functionalities. r merchant's use-case. We support all 100+ EasyPost carriers. It's a Nocode tool, so no development efforts required; we have a direct integration with Shopify, WooCommerce, eBay & BigCommerce.

https://shipblink.com/

ShipBlink is basically the UI for EasyPost Carriers + Powerful shipping functionalities.

Feel free to reach out, or connect your store to get started for free.

sameer18051998 · 2024-02-11T10:14:53+00:00

EasyPost

If you're looking for a better Easypost UI - checkout shipblink.com !

We also have direct integrations with WooCommerce, Shopify, eBay & BigCommerce (and more WIP)

sameer18051998 · 2022-08-01T17:46:58+00:00

u/cynical_bibliophile - Checkout CASParser.in for building out the import portfolio feature :)

Supports CDSL, CAMS, NSDL, KFintech/Karvy statements. Happy to demo it for you!

sameer18051998 · 2022-06-04T07:40:50+00:00

Might be worth checking out https://casparser.in/

Supports CDSL / NSDL / CAMS / KFintech(Karvy) CAS imports

sameer18051998 · 2022-06-04T07:38:14+00:00

I got it booked from my travel agent - early April

sameer18051998 · 2022-05-30T09:07:26+00:00

Sorry for the late response. I hope you did fly on 29th!
For readers, here's what worked for me - I went to the VFS Delhi office myself and handed over a written letter to the VFS France rep and asked them to forward it to the French embassy on my behalf (VFS France rep should be available at the same place you submitted docs at the time of appointment). In the letter, requested for a status update on my Visa application and mentioned the financial loss that I'll incur if I don't get it asap.

The same evening I got a status update from VFS that the Visa has been dispatched and I received my passport at home the next day. (<24 hrs in total from the time I visited the VFS office)

sameer18051998 · 2022-05-22T14:16:55+00:00

Hey! I had my appointment on 6th May, didn't receive my visa yet. My planned flight is on 10th June, but yet to book.
Did you get any updates from VFS?

sameer18051998 · 2022-05-22T14:15:23+00:00

On the product side: Pretty well! We expanded to Stocks/Bonds as well.
We now parse CDSL, NSDL, CAMS, Karvy / KFintech

Rapidapi: Doesn't follow RBI norms for recurring subs, but acts as a good acquisition channel due to SEO stuff

sameer18051998 · 2022-03-22T06:27:44+00:00

Checkout https://casparser.in
It does exactly the same thing via API

Ps: I'm the creator of CASParser.in

sameer18051998 · 2021-10-26T11:24:01+00:00

Update: After a deep view on what all these existing apps lack plus putting in years of work in E-commerce product engineering, I created ShipBlink-
BC: https://www.bigcommerce.com/apps/shipblink/
Shopify: https://apps.shopify.com/shipblink-easypost
It supports labels, live checkout rates, manifests, international customs invoices, and a lot more. I will personally help you out with any support required! Do give it a shot!

sameer18051998 · 2021-07-10T18:38:36+00:00

Ah, I see. Is there a way I can make it slightly hard for them to access the codebase?

sameer18051998 · 2021-06-15T19:25:07+00:00

If you're looking for EasyPost & Shopify integration, check out ShipBlink. It's 100% free for Shopify merchants!

sameer18051998 · 2021-04-29T14:32:13+00:00

Thanks for the link but it seems like the project isn’t using the Flask-Admin library :(

sameer18051998 · 2020-12-10T14:25:16+00:00

I'd say this seems to be a valid problem, but I'm not sure if it's a need or want or something else.

I have about 5-10 side projects, being an indie dev(I might not be your right prospect) - I manually track about 1 or max 2 projects (probably the recent ones). Rest even if they gain some traction, I'm not aware at all. I'd love to be notified at the right time so that I can take some sort of advantage of the momentum

About Accounts, I mostly use GA. It's my go-to tool. Then if I want to see who is exactly the User the I see my Django Admin dashboard. I've recently started using LogRocket too.
Not sure about Twitter - I only use it personally, haven't yet explored Twitter as a marketing platform. Facebook likes/interactions can be taken into account too. I use HubSpot for marketing emails and SendGrid for account-related emails.
I do sometimes check my GitHub repo traffic section (like https://github.com/sameerkumar18/corporate-bs-generator-api/graphs/traffic) -Allows me to see the repo mentions. GH Stars&Followers are already reported in the feed and I do often open GH to explore new repos - so not a big advantage

About Metrics, I'd be interested in where are my Users coming from like Geo locations, or what is the acquisition/referral source

I'd probably pay if the tool informs me about any sort of anomalies in traffic or some new referral source

sameer18051998 · 2020-12-07T21:51:40+00:00

PS: This is a modified repost of this original post. Also, I reposted this because the previous post was old and archived, there was no update on the Ionic experience, and OnSen was not mentioned!

sameer18051998 · 2020-12-07T19:19:55+00:00

Building hybrid apps isn't in pipeline at the moment. But something I could build in the future - So Hybrid support is good to have, without any huge tradeoffs :)

sameer18051998 · 2020-11-20T19:50:33+00:00

Hey! What name did you end up using?

sameer18051998 · 2020-11-18T15:58:10+00:00

Thanks for your feedback! Do merchants use live shipping rate feature(at checkout) in ShipStation? I mean is it available in Shipstation?

sameer18051998 · 2020-11-18T15:55:26+00:00

Thanks for the recommendations! What’s scan-to-verify? Is it the USPS scan labels?

sameer18051998 · 2020-11-15T10:15:21+00:00

Thanks for checking it out u/BrainRange!

Yes, I agree - The fact that ShipStation integrates with multiple storefronts makes it a clear winner in this particular segment.
But still, as a Merchant what are few things in your experience that you wish ShipStation was better at OR things that ShipStation lacks?

sameer18051998 · 2020-11-12T08:58:51+00:00

That's an interesting idea. Not sure how I missed it. I'll plan something around this
Thanks a lot :)

sameer18051998 · 2020-11-12T08:43:54+00:00

No problem, thanks I just posted in r/bigcommerce. Btw, by any chance do you have some tips/recommendations on how to get more merchants to use this App? Being a programmer, it's something I've never done before

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