Show HN: Beaconstac – iBeacon proximity platform for developers

Re:Show HN: Beaconstac – iBeacon proximity platform for deve... by ksaxena on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @02:25PM (#8852684)

Cool stuff guys. Quick question: how much of an adoption are you expecting for iBeacon compliant stuff in say, the next 2 years amongst small and medium retailers? Or is it more of a large retail play?

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Re:Show HN: Beaconstac – iBeacon proximity platform for deve... by ravipratapm on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @10:17PM (#8854834)

Glad you like it!

From what we're seeing, there's very clear interest in beacons across a wide variety of verticals - hotels, events, museums, etc. Retail is definitely one of the significant verticals but not the only one.

That's also one of the reasons Beaconstac is a developer-led platform with SDKs & REST APIs - we think it is best to let developers figure out how to add proximity-based applications to the verticals they work in.

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Re:Show HN: Beaconstac – iBeacon proximity platform for deve... by pothash on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @02:53PM (#8852849)

For starters, we expect this to be more geared towards larger players, since we the business needs to invest in an app. Having said that the use-cases for beacons definitely go beyond just retail across various industry verticals and we expect this to be driven by developers.

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