Building apps with location tracking is harder than it needs to be. Focus on building features that are core to your business, and leave location tracking infrastructure on the mobile and cloud to HyperTrack.
We at Freshdesk, provide customer support software to some of the leading companies across the world like Honda, Cisco, 3M etc. We're also used by some of the more popular on-demand consumer apps in Asia for providing support in real-time using chat. When we noticed some of our customers already using Hypertrack's plug-and-play location stack, doing an integration with them was a no-brainer for us -> this allows our customers to provide a seamless support experience to the end users.
This is a fantastic product, built by an experienced team: Really excited by all the possibilities Hypertrack opens up! Go team!
@abhishekmadhavn thanks Abhishek. Love the quick integration you guys did for our mutual customers. The next level might be a chatbot integration where customers asking for their orders can automatically get the tracking link and ETA with no human intervention? :-)
@jindalish@righthalf@abhishekmadhavn That's a lovely prototype @jindalish. Fabulous work. Wondering if can we offer a order-tracking chatbot (pre-integrated with HyperTrack) to someone who may be interested?
At Coachella this year, my house all set their location sharing permissions using iOS's feature. I got nervous bc I worried I would forget to turn it off so I set it to 8 hours only. Then, a couple hours later I turned it off to minimize battery drain bc I've always heard location sharing drains your battery. And I just checked the Find Friends app and I see some of those folks never turned it off. Ha! Could I use hypertracks API to build a simpler, more precise version of location sharing for ad hoc groups that would minimize battery drain? Never mind that idea, I just looked through your docs and I want to make city wide scavenger hunts with custom actions for discovering the locations hinted at by clues. Each group of friends can define up to 10 teams that app start at the same time. Haha this type of trivial game would be taxing to the point of not fun to build from scratch, but your API could make it a fun hackathon project. Perhaps replace the http://jaredmorgenstern.com/quotes project! Good stuff, team. That degree of freedom, to unlock a cool social game, while it sounds trivial,- begs the question what other things will now come into the world. What have you guys come up with as a team hypertrack? What are your dream integrations?
@jjflex Battery usage for location tracking has turned a corner recently, with overlaying activity data with location data. Check out this post we wrote: https://blog.hypertrack.com/2017...
Now don't get me started on whacky use cases. An escort service in SE Asia became a paying customer in our self-serve. It was the app that the workers use. I was a bit creeped out at first but then saw that it was not for customers tracking the visit. It was for internal use. I hope it's for monitoring the safety of the workers, perhaps an SOS button in the app?
Back to gaming, if you think about it, Pokemon Go was built by the Keyhole/Google Maps guy for a reason. Tracking activity and location needs to work well for the game to work. I've seen a bunch of social and messaging apps build live location sharing between users with HyperTrack. Am waiting for that social gaming use case in the big bad world that is built on our platform.
A health insurance company just started using us to reward customers with cashbacks for a certain number of active fitness days and sessions.
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How many times in a day do you ask someone - 'Where are you?'. With HyperTrack you won't have to do that any more!
HyperTrack is lowering the barriers for the industry to create new location based services by solving a trifecta of problems:
1. Making it easier for developers to build via its plug-n-play sdk & awesome onboarding
2. Making it convenient for field users to use its technology via minimal battery usage and background sync
3. Making it super fun for business owners to consume location data through beautiful visualizations...
Super excited to think of the possibilities with this!
@ram_kakkad if you were to build a live location-based app, what would it be?
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@righthalf Some kind of a task aggregator for families could be useful. So if I needed to visit a store or do some work somewhere - and someone from my family was in the area - they could get a ping saying 'A family task is available in the area'.
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A fantastic product with almost unlimited potential. Open sourcing the Play Store live location sharing application was a great move and one which shows their commitment to open source and willingness to make it as easy as possible to integrate into your workflow. Great job guys!
@jerdogxda Thanks Jeremy. Are there other things you think HyperTrack could opensource for the best of the developer community?
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@abhishekpoddar the iOS version of the Live Tracking would be a good next step which I am sure you're working on. Continuing to make sure new technologies are represented and able to be accessed will be important, and I would suggest that IoT not be ignored. I know personally a few interested parties which would make use of this with IoT.
@jerdogxda That's right. We are soon going to open source iOS version of HyperTrack Live app (our live location sharing app). Should happen in a few weeks.
Re: your thought on IoT, we too have received interest on supporting IoT. Wondering what use cases you have seen?
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Love it. Apps like Swiggy have made it a habit to track the delivery. Hope to see more consumer/delivery apps support location tracking. Good luck team.
Have been following the HyperTrack team since the very early days. Not just product design & tech but documentation and support is also top notch. Very nimble and strong team. Hope to see more companies building great products on top of HyperTrack. All the best guys !
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