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Ask HN: How to keep Fruits and Vegetable fresh (actual and perceived) until delivery

Hey All,When Fruits & Vegetables have to be shipped from warehouse to a customer's house (transport time - 5-10 hours). What kind of packaging can we use for fruits & vegetables to ensure the freshness - actual & perceived till it reaches customer's house?Constraint - we cannot have cold room in the transportation vehicle due to high cost per order.Thanks

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Ask HN: Ideal process to identify users, do research and design product

Hey All,We are a 2 years young B2C Grocery delivery startup ( Equivalent to Instacart ) and what to re-think everything to provide great consumer experience.What is/are the ideal process to: 1. Identify our users 2. Segment them 3. Find their jobs-to-be-done (http://bit.ly/2gDcBIR) 4. Build Information IA 5. Design process post step 4.All the article I found were around processes design studios...

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Ask HN: Does starting early have positive impact on a tech team's productivity?

Hey, I work at a fairly large startup and my management thinks tech team should start at 8.00 am in the morning. Every engineer in my team does not want to start at 8.00 am, although they have no problem working late.1) How do make them understand they should measure the output and not the number of hours. 2) What kind of metrics/framework can I provide them to show the productivity of my...

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016) on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @06:06PM (#11818611)
Grofers | Staff Engineer Backend, Mobile | G-town, India | $100,00 - $150,000 | Work at the biggest hyper-local marketplace in South-Asia | ONSITE

Why move to India!! - This is the time to be in India - you will be solving some of the most challenging problem on earth which can only be solved by technology. The problem set, sheer scale and market size ($600 Billion) is unique to India. Pirates wanted! You will greeted with amazing peers, tough and impactful problems to code on and beer!

Grofers engineering is a fast-paced environment that focuses on excellence and high productivity. We face unique organizational challenges everyday and if you look forward to join us, you have to be someone who is comfortable in uncharted territory and is ready to build consumer, logistics, catalogue, fulfillment, retail and marketing systems that can support operations of 100,000 and 10 million people alike. We're constantly taking on challenges like making efficient and fast hyper-local logistics, personalisation, search, payments, and growth - all the while shipping a beautiful user experience. We want to build solutions to these problems that are scalable, performant, and elegant, and we're looking for talented people to help us do just that.

The mission is to make buying groceries as simple as tap water availability. Confused? Two decades earlier, tap water was not readily available and the task of fetching water for the household was an unavoidable chore. With time, the establishment of a well-defined supply has now made lack of tap water availability a lore of the past. That is exactly what we want to do to the issue of grocery shopping. The challenge is to organise the entire retail market (sellers, supply and distribution), build hyper-local logistics that can scale fast economically, and provide a delightful experience to the consumers.

Some facts from the last year and a half:

- Hyper-Growth: 0 to 1.5 million active monthly users across 17 cities within 1.5 years

- We were the best app of 2015 - Android & iOS

- Backed by Sequoia, DST, Tiger and Softback ( We are the only Indian company to have all of them onboard)

Are you ready for a crazy, wild, roller-coaster ride - grofers.com/blog/first-days-grofers-abhinav-desor/?

=== Email me at [email protected] | https://grofers.com/careers/engineering ===

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2016) on Saturday April 02, 2016 @04:30PM (#11413268)
Grofers.com | Staff Engineer Backend, Mobile | G-town, India | $100,00 - $150,000 | Work at the biggest hyper-local marketplace in South-Asia | ONSITE

Are you ready for a crazy, wild, roller-coaster ride - grofers.com/blog/first-days-grofers-abhinav-desor/?

Why move to India!! - This is the time to be in India - you will be solving some of the most challenging problem on earth which can only be solved by technology. The problem set, sheer scale and market size ($600 Billion) is unique to India. Pirates wanted! You will greeted with amazing peers, tough and impactful problems to code on and beer!

Grofers engineering is a fast-paced environment that focuses on excellence and high productivity. We face unique organizational challenges everyday and if you look forward to join us, you have to be someone who is comfortable in uncharted territory and is ready to build consumer, logistics, catalogue, fulfillment, retail and marketing systems that can support operations of 100,000 and 10 million people alike.

We're constantly taking on challenges like making efficient and fast hyper-local logistics, personalisation, search, payments, and growth - all the while shipping a beautiful user experience. We want to build solutions to these problems that are scalable, performant, and elegant, and we're looking for talented people to help us do just that.

The mission is to make buying groceries as simple as tap water availability. Confused? Two decades earlier, tap water was not readily available and the task of fetching water for the household was an unavoidable chore. With time, the establishment of a well-defined supply has now made lack of tap water availability a lore of the past.

That is exactly what we want to do to the issue of grocery shopping. The challenge is to organise the entire retail market (sellers, supply and distribution), build hyper-local logistics that can scale fast economically, and provide a delightful experience to the consumers.

Some facts from the last year and a half:

- Hyper-Growth: 0 to 1.5 million active monthly users across 17 cities within 1.5 years

- We were the best app of 2015 - Android & iOS

- Backed by Sequoia, DST, Tiger and Softback ( We are the only Indian company to have all of them onboard)

===

Email me at [email protected] | https://grofers.com/careers/engineering

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Re:How can I spend $10,000 in 1 day on Facebook? on Saturday May 16, 2015 @03:01PM (#9557212)
Faisal, Thanks for replying. Will it help if I start multiple campaigns each targeting multiple set of target audience?

How can I spend $10,000 in 1 day on Facebook?

I work at startup which is growing very fast. Our team does not have digital marketing expert, hence I am looking after it - still learning.We have a big feature/campaign launch tomorrow. In order to reach a large audience, I have secured a budget of $10,000 for 1 day.I have noticed, it is difficult to spend a lot of money on first days of the campaign. Need to help in this regard.About the...

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Re:Ask HN: Please share your experience with branch.io on Saturday March 28, 2015 @05:59AM (#9280928)
My perspective on this is - To move fast, build product at a good speed, iterate and build new functionalities, to save time - we use 3rd party services after understanding their past record and kind of risk you go into if they stop - there is a silver lining to this.

I think Github is something you can be dependent on. Especially because they have been able to make it a profitable business. They charge for their service.

Whereas - branch.io is free for all. There is no clear business model as such. I would pay them a subscription fee and get a reliable service, rather than have a free unreliable service.

Ask HN: Please share your experience with branch.io

In a short span of my experience with branch.io, I have seen its service going down for a couple of times. I am using their deeplink feature for a very important functionality of my mobile app.Looking for your experience with respect to:- Availability- Scalability- Performance on slow internet connection - Edge.Also, I am open to discussing my exact use case, other services offering deeplink as...

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Re:Marg - A Simple Request Router written in PHP on Wednesday November 14, 2012 @01:44AM (#4782305)
Well I like it. Simple,Easy to pick up and integrate. Looking forward to use and contribute.