Closeout AI for Staffing

May 5, 2026·Shift Work

Fast Pay for Light Industrial Workers: Why Accurate Timesheets Make Same-Day Pay Possible

Light industrial operators competing on retention need to fix two things at once: trustworthy timesheets and fast pay. Location-verified proof of work makes both possible.

Jan 21, 2026·Solutions

The Hidden Fintech Problem Killing Staffing Companies (And How AI Finally Solves It)

Every staffing company thinks they're in the people business. But the moment a worker clocks in, you become a fintech company—whether you realize it or not.

Dec 3, 2025

Building a High-Growth Business in Times of Extreme Uncertainty

At Shift Work Summit 2025, Nursa founder and CEO Curtis Anderson opened Shift Work Summit 2025 with a candid look at what it really takes to build a high‑growth healthcare startup in an era defined by constant shocks.

Sep 21, 2025·Solutions

The Importance of Location Intelligence in Field Service

Insight derived from the visualization and analysis of geospatial data is known as location intelligence. By superimposing data specific to a location—such as demographics, traffic, environmental conditions, economic factors, and…

Aug 28, 2025·Solutions

HyperTrack's Location AI Solution in Action - Closeout Agent Demo

How do leading staffing platforms and service companies use AI to finalize orders and process payouts the same-day? Our recent webinar answers this question. Led by HyperTrack Product Manager, Vibhas Jain, we discussed how AI improves…

Jun 3, 2025·Geofences

HyperTrack and Payment Dispute Resolution in Shift Work

HyperTrack provides a comprehensive location intelligence platform designed to automate and streamline shift work management. One of the primary workflows HyperTrack supports is resolving payment disputes—a common challenge in shift-based…

May 16, 2025

Adam Francis: Building Host Healthcare from Startup to Industry Leader

In March of this year, we had the chance to participate in the 2025 SIA Executive forum. The sessions highlighted the growth and transition that the staffing industry has experienced in the past several years. Within healthcare, these…

Apr 24, 2025

SIA Executive Forum NA 2025: Technology, Efficiency, and Growth in Light Industrial Staffing

We had the chance to participate in the 2025 SIA Executive forum. The session titled Achieving Excellence in Industrial Staffing brought together leading voices from the staffing industry to discuss the future of light industrial staffing…

Apr 16, 2025·Geofences

Where to Next for Healthcare Staffing: Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities

The healthcare staffing industry is undergoing significant transformation. As it adapts to evolving market dynamics, technological advancements, and workforce challenges, industry leaders are faced with the task of innovating to survive…

Mar 10, 2025

Groundworks leverages HyperTrack to Improve the Customer Experience

Groundworks provides home protection services like basement waterproofing, foundation repair, and concrete leveling. These are critical issues that, if left untreated, can significantly devalue a home. We had the chance to sit down with…

Jan 23, 2025

How Same-Day Pay Powers Shift Work

Same-day pay, also known as instant pay or on-demand pay, is revolutionizing the way workers receive their wages. This innovative payment model allows employees to access their earned wages before the traditional payday, providing greater…

Jan 15, 2025·Company

HyperTrack 2024 in Review

In 2024 we noticed a continued trend in hiring contingent workers with the help of shift work marketplaces. These marketplaces address a significant portion of the labor market, especially the healthcare, light industrial, and hospitality…

Jan 3, 2025·Solutions

HyperTrack Solution Showcase Replay: Backfill for Last-minute Cancellations

Last month, on December 13, we hosted a solution showcase to highlight the nuances of backfilling last minute cancellations in shift work. This 30-minute solution showcase was led by HyperTrack’s VP of Product, Ram Kakkad and VP of…

Dec 19, 2024

Powering the Future of Shift Work with AWS and HyperTrack

In this Shift Work Summit session Manish Govil, Industry Growth Manager at AWS discussed how AWS enables companies to streamline operations and enhance worker productivity. AWS’s powerful cloud infrastructure serves as the foundation for…

Dec 16, 2024

Fast Access to Earnings: A Strategy for Winning and Keeping Gig Workers

During Shift Work Summit, challenges associated with delivering high quality payments solutions were top of mind. Shift workers depend on reliable payments as a key component of their financial stability. Chris Hollindale, Head of Checkr…

Nov 26, 2024

Accelerating Field Sales Productivity with HubSpot-Connected Location Intelligence

Shift Work Summit featured Logan Sands, VP of Technology of Sunderstorm as he highlights how his team needed to innovate to meet the needs of their rapidly expanding cannabis gummy brand. The team needed to address common challenges faced…

Nov 18, 2024

HyperTrack Solution Showcase Replay: The Secret to No-Show Detection

HyperTrack validates over 1 million shifts per month, on November 14th we hosted a solution showcase to highlight the nuances of no-show detection in shift work. Watch the replay video below to learn how shift work marketplaces achieve the…

Nov 11, 2024·Logistics Intelligence

Shift Work Summit 2024

Shift Work Summit 2024 connected a diverse community of tech builders, product managers, CTOs, and ops leaders who focus on making shift work more efficient. Shift Work Summit is the premier event for product and ops teams who are building…

Oct 31, 2024·Shift Work

How Wonolo Facilitates Daily Pay for W-2 Workers with Zeal's Payroll Built for Shift Work

During last month’s Shift Work Summit Kirti Shenoy, co-founder and CEO of Zeal and Ivan Sathianathan, Product Manager at Wonolo discussed their partnership. Their session covered how Wonolo leverages Zeal's technology to streamline…

Oct 24, 2024·Customers

Revolutionizing Staffing—Job&Talent Leverages Technology to Shape the Future of Workforce

This insightful session during Shift Work Summit was a deep dive into how companies improve workforce quality and reliability with Job&Talent. Chief Sales Officer, Brian Neely shared how Job&Talent has expanded to be a global force in the…

Oct 21, 2024·Company

The Secret to No-show Detection in Healthcare

Shift Work Summit featured a session led by Saurabh Das, VP of Engineering at HyperTrack, as he discussed the nuances of no-show detection in shift work. With a focus on healthcare marketplaces, Saurabh was able to break down the…

Oct 15, 2024·Solutions

Disrupting the Shift Work Staffing Industry with Indeed Flex

In this enlightening session of the Shift Work Summit, James Terry, Chief of Staff at Indeed Flex, discusses how the company is revolutionizing the staffing industry. As an offshoot of the renowned job search platform Indeed, Indeed Flex…

Oct 9, 2024·Shift Work Automation

The Flex Work Revolution: 2024 and Beyond

Shift Work Summit 2024 was full of inspiring and thought-provoking sessions with industry leaders who shared key insights on the trends and innovations that are guiding the future shift work. We were thrilled to have Jarah Euston…

Jun 20, 2024·Solutions

The No-Call, No-Show Epidemic: A CFO's Guide to Minimizing Financial Losses in the Gig Economy

As the Chief Financial Officer of a gig work marketplace, you're keenly aware of the challenges posed by the no-call, no-show (NCNS) phenomenon, where a nurse or a clinician signs up for a shift but does not show up and doesn't call to…

Jan 24, 2024·Solutions

Effective Strategies for Reducing No-Shows in Healthcare: Enhancing Gig Worker Reliability

Imagine a healthcare clinic that heavily relies on gig workers, such as freelance nurses or part-time medical assistants, to manage fluctuating patient loads. One morning, a reliable gig worker, John, is scheduled for an important shift.…

Jan 17, 2024·Gig Work Automation

On-Demand Dispatch: Powering Modern Workforce Logistics

The gig economy is booming! Growth in the gig economy is accelerated by technology that enables companies to automate the planning and assignment of jobs and shifts, culminating in a global market size of $3.8 trillion in 2022 with…

Dec 21, 2023·Gig Work Automation

Understanding Gig Economy Payroll: Outsourcing, Compliance, and On-Demand Workforce Payment Solutions with Zeal

Zeal's Guide to Navigating the Complexities of Contractor Payments and Compliance in the Gig Economy The modern workforce thrives on on-demand services, and with this shift comes the need for streamlined gig economy payroll solutions. As…

Dec 15, 2023·Customers

Past Present and Future of Gig Work: Perspectives from Healthcare, Hospitality, Light Industrial and Safety Industries

Insights from Liquid Mobile, Gigable, Traba, and YellowBird Leaders on Recruitment, Job Assignment, and Managing No-Shows In the gig economy, understanding the nuances of recruitment, job assignment, and the handling of unexpected…

Dec 12, 2023·Company

Scale your Workforce & Logistics Operations with AWS and HyperTrack: Webinar Featuring PartRunner

In response to the requirements of the on-demand economy, teams must include location intelligence in their digital transformation initiatives. We recently hosted a webinar with AWS and our customer, PartRunner, who is an example of how…

Nov 30, 2023·Customers

Revolutionizing Freelance Workforce Management with Real-Time Tracking at Gigable

Gigable's Journey with HyperTrack for Enhanced Transparency and Client Satisfaction The gig economy requires businesses to do a delicate balancing act of prioritizing efficient workforce management and operational excellence while…

Oct 27, 2023·Gig Work Automation

The Gig Economy Evolves: How On-Demand Staffing Solves Labor Gaps in Real Time

The gig economy is growing in triple digits, going from 2% of the total economy in 2020 to 20% in 2030 and traditional solutions for recruiting, planning, assignment, tracking and verification of work need an update to match these new…

Oct 24, 2023·Gig Work Automation

Last Mile Logistics for Big & Bulky Deliveries: A Deep Dive into PartRunner's Approach to On-Demand Workforce

In the complex domain of product delivery, 56 million tons of goods are moved daily in the U.S., with a substantial share being large, cumbersome items that demand specialized attention. Items like building materials, home appliances, and…

Oct 19, 2023·Company

Embracing the Gig Economy: How Staffing Platforms Are Revolutionizing the Workplace

Value of focus: How we built Zenjob from a niche player to a leading staffing platform The modern work landscape is evolving rapidly. As the global economy shifts towards more dynamic employment models, the gig economy will only become a…

Oct 17, 2023·Gig Work

How Traba is Redefining Staffing Technology for the On-demand Economy

On October 5 we hosted Gig Work Summit, were the featured keynote was given by Traba co-founder and CTO, Akshay Buddiga. Traba’s journey is a testament to builders centering the customer experience to create solutions that change the…

Oct 12, 2023·Company

Gig Work Revolution: The Rise of Tech-Driven Labor and the Future of On-Demand Workforce

In a riveting keynote at the Gig Work Summit, Kashyap Deorah CEO at HyperTrack delves deep into the transformation of the labor market, emphasizing the role of technology in reshaping blue-collar and shift labor. Drawing from real-time…

Sep 13, 2023·Gig Work Automation

Strategies to Improve Gig Worker Attendance and Fill Rate: Insights and Tech Solutions

On-demand labor is becoming more prevalent in a range of sectors, including transportation, hospitality, home services and short-term project-based assignments. By the end of 2023 there will be 78 million gig workers in the US alone. Both…

Aug 30, 2023·Customers

Gigable Scales with AWS and HyperTrack by Automating Workflows for On-demand Workforce

Many organizations with highly mobile field service teams, with supply chain and logistics requirements, and on-demand labor build their own workflow applications to help automate their mobile worker order planning, assignment, dispatch…

Aug 30, 2023·Customers

How AWS and HyperTrack Bring Efficiency to On-demand Service and Gig Work Platforms

The on-demand economy has grown beyond delivery services and ride sharing. By the end of 2023, the number of gig workers is expected to reach 78 million in the US alone. This gig workforce includes those who provide a variety of services…

Aug 29, 2023·Live Order Tracking

AWS and HyperTrack Delivering Scale, Reliability and Flexibility for On-demand Businesses

Everyone expects everything right away. That is the nature of today's on-demand economy. So technology leaders need to adjust. They are now required to give operations teams, drivers, and customers the tech they need to manage, fulfill and…

Aug 10, 2023·Solutions

Optimize Gig Workforce Scheduling with HyperTrack APIs: An Essential Guide

In today's fast-paced business environment the gig workforce has emerged as a permanent fixture. From delivery drivers to hospitality workers - gig work's agility and flexibility offer an innovative win-win solution for businesses and…

Aug 2, 2023·Geofences

Why Location History is Important for On-demand Business Models

Location History is the Pulse of the Business To compete in the on-demand economy, it is critical for companies to continuously improve and optimize field operations. Collecting the history of fulfillment locations, parking spots, routes…

Jun 29, 2023·Order Tracking

Streamlining Deliveries with The Orders App: A New Era of Route Planning & Workforce Automation

Imagine having complete control over your service orders, on-demand tasks, and delivery operations with just a few screen taps. The Orders App makes this vision a reality with the combination of workforce automation and intelligent route…

Jun 26, 2023·Geotags

Top 5 Issues with On-demand Hourly and Shift Work

On-demand workers, often referred to as 'gig workers', are a critical component in many industries as companies frequently require temporary staff to meet seasonal and growth demands. Roles such as light industrial, event security, and…

Jun 1, 2023·Live Location Tracking

If You Click, Will They Come?

We want to share a story with you and tell us if it sounds familiar. A restaurant owner opens an on-demand labor marketplace app and places an order for three bartenders for an exclusive event in two weeks with 300 guests. The ordering…

May 25, 2023·Live Location Tracking

Managing Tracking for On-demand Labor and Hourly and Shift Workers

Across industries, the world is moving towards on-demand work powered by gig-workers and on-demand labor. While this is clearly visible in areas like ride sharing and grocery delivery which we all interact with as consumers in our daily…

May 24, 2023·On-demand Dispatch

He Said, She Said…. But What Did the Data Say?

Back in February, this Forbes article hit the nail on the head summarizing the state of the economy: “There is a white-collar Richcession while the blue-collar and frontline workers see wage growth and more job opportunities”. At…

Mar 10, 2023·Product

HyperTrack's Orders API - one API for the entire order lifecycle

The importance of last mile As a logistics tech builder there are many ways to build technology for last mile use cases. On the demand side, end consumers expect their orders to be fulfilled on time and with constantly increasing…

Dec 13, 2022·Logistics APIs

Buyer's Guide For Last Mile Logistics Technology

Even the most experienced climbers use a guide. They need help not only navigating the terrain but designing and implementing a plan to reach the summit. As ability and skill increase, the most challenging peaks become reachable but the…

Sep 21, 2022·Technology

Engaging with the Next Generation of Tech Innovators

Last weekend HyperTrack had the amazing opportunity to sponsor and mentor HackTheNorth 2022 at the University of Waterloo and work with an amazing organizing team, and work alongside some of the biggest names in tech like Bloomberg…

Aug 17, 2022·Company

Investing in Logistics Automation with HyperTrack

This post is written by guest author, Sumir Chadha, Managing Partner of WestBridge Capital, who led the series A investment in HyperTrack. Be it the food order placed for immediate delivery, a furniture delivery scheduled days in advance…

Aug 17, 2022·Company

Announcing Series A Funding and Introduction of BuilderX

I am delighted to share that HyperTrack has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by WestBridge Capital and existing investor Nexus Venture Partners to support company growth and expand global engineering teams to deliver…

Jul 27, 2022·Order Tracking

How HyperTrack Helps Alfred Build Trust With Customers

Alfred is a Colombia-based provider of consumer vehicle maintenance services who uses HyperTrack to provides customers with peace of mind as their cars are being serviced. We had the opportunity to speak with Alfred founder, Santiago Cala…

Jul 27, 2022·Logistics APIs

How MagaLoop Uses HyperTrack to Improve User Retention

Germany-based digital B2B marketplace, MagaLoop, is leading digital transformation for wholesalers and independent retailers across Europe – connecting them directly with suppliers through their order and delivery platform, built with…

Jul 27, 2022·Order Tracking

MagaLoop Gives Customers Transparency With HyperTrack

Germany-based digital B2B marketplace, MagaLoop, leads digital transformation for wholesalers and independent retailers across Europe – connecting them directly with suppliers through their order and delivery platform, built with…

Jul 21, 2022·Company

Order Assignment and Tracking to Improve Fulfillment Efficiency

We are excited to share our product updates from Q2 '22. This quarter we released a more powerful Nearby Search to help you with on-demand order assignment, improved your ability to manage drivers who are available for work and release a…

Jul 13, 2022·Order Tracking

How Zeloce Uses HyperTrack to Provide Visibility for Customers

France-based technology provider, Zeloce leads digital transformation for last mile delivery and logistics companies across Europe – providing them with a platform to manage their delivery operations from the warehouse to the doorstep. We…

May 27, 2022·ETA Tracking

HyperTrack Powers Your Favorite Brands

Connie is like you. While her days are structured around work, home and social commitments, many of her consumer experiences take place online and with on-demand apps. She discovers these apps through referrals from friends or through…

May 18, 2022·Technology

Building Resilience with HyperTrack SDKs

Outages are painful. No one wants to see a blank screen while attempting to access critical services and applications. Unfortunately, that’s what happened last month when thousands of people attempted to reach their favorite streaming…

Apr 12, 2022·Product

Simplify Your Operations with On-demand Dispatch

Last month we added updates that focused on combining the power of validated route optimization with on-demand dispatch to give ops managers the ability to quickly assign orders to the closest drivers. We've noticed that our customers are…

Feb 25, 2022·Logistics APIs

Dive Into Last Mile KPIs and Improve Tracking for Customers

The past few months have been really exciting for us at HyperTrack. We have received a ton of love from customers and our business has grown substantially. Customers are at the center of our company so we are happy to share this update…

Feb 14, 2022·Logistics Cloud

5 Tips for Logistics Tech TCO

When thinking about total cost of ownership (TCO) and logistics technology, technical teams need to think holistically. Talent, capacity, flexibility, and reliability are just a few areas of investment required to build logistics apps that…

Jan 13, 2022·Customers

Get2Go improves customer retention with accurate real-time tracking; Reduces cost by 90%

Get2Go is an app-powered, on-demand taxi service provider in Qatar, connecting the drivers with customers via a cutting-edge mobile application. They use HyperTrack to find and assign trips to nearby drivers. This is an interview with CEO…

Dec 27, 2021·Customers

Home services marketplace Jobox improves job completion rate

Jobox is the largest managed marketplace for home services in the US. They use HyperTrack to find nearby pros to assign and track jobs, and improve job completion rates. This is an interview with their Co-founder & CTO, Kaushik Pendurthi.…

Dec 20, 2021·Customers

Ride-hailing startup Get2go builds a faster way to dispatch nearest cabs

Get2Go is an app-powered, on-demand taxi service provider in Qatar, connecting the drivers with customers via a cutting-edge mobile application. They use HyperTrack to find and assign trips to nearby drivers. This is an interview with CTO…

Nov 30, 2021·Customers

Supr Daily builds trust with transparent and reliable payouts to delivery drivers

Swiggy company Supr Daily is a micro delivery service for milk, eggs, bread, fruits, veggies, and other groceries at customer's doorstep by 7am. They use HyperTrack to track delivery drivers and payout based on distance driven. This is an…

Nov 22, 2021·Customers

Supr Daily improves customer experience and delivery driver payouts with accurate tracking

Swiggy company Supr Daily is a daily delivery service for milk, eggs, bread, fruits, veggies, and other groceries at customer's doorstep by 7am. They use HyperTrack to track delivery drivers and payout based on distance driven. This is an…

Nov 11, 2021·Customers

Liquor delivery startup Spiritzone builds better live order tracking within a sprint

Spiritzone is an online multi-outlet liquor store chain in India and the first one to go digital for home deliveries of liquor in the State of Maharashtra. They use HyperTrack to give live order tracking experience to their customers. This…

Nov 2, 2021·Customers

LEAD uses HubSpot-integrated location app to improve sales productivity

LEAD School is an integrated system for affordable private schools in India to provide excellent education outcomes for every child. They use HyperTrack to automatically log customer appointment visits and routes in their CRM. This is an…

Oct 4, 2021·Company

Logistics tech builders of the world—join the movement

When building out an ecommerce business, fulfilling the orders is often seen as a necessary evil. On-demand commerce has flipped that on its head—"what if you could press a button and it shows up the same day, even the same hour?" The…

Aug 13, 2021·Solutions

Tech Alert! How far can you go to improve your fleet management app?

Take a minute to answer these questions before reading on. Can you list down your top challenges in managing your fleet? Read on when you are done. Here are a few that might resonate. Go through them and let us know if you have anything…

Jul 23, 2021·Solutions

5 Ways last-mile delivery automation can boost operational efficiency

Forward-thinking businesses are transforming to embrace the right technology for their logistics operations. While every logistics company is looking to upscale its delivery processes to service rising demand, few pain points continue to…

May 25, 2021·Solutions

How to support your delivery superheroes in India’s second wave

India has entered the calm after the chaos of the pandemic’s second wave. The nation is in the grips of a medical health emergency. Health care infrastructure has been torn by the scarcity of doctors, nurses, vaccinations, medicines, and…

May 19, 2021·Solutions

Proof of Delivery—Why and How it can help your business grow

Home deliveries: The trend born out of the need has a long way to go. The concept of on-demand delivery has reached new heights in recent years. The graph of delivery businesses is up and to the right. Delivery business thrives on making…

May 18, 2021·Solutions

5 Mistakes every on-demand startup should avoid

To err is human. Entrepreneurs are no different. There are inevitable mistakes that any entrepreneur can make—a newbie or a pro. However, some errors can be costly for many startups and result in significant failures. Once small scale…

May 14, 2021·Solutions

4 Myths about delayed deliveries and the realities of dealing with them

Meeting customer expectations with on-time delivery is a priority for every on-demand delivery business. ETA mismatches & delivery delays can irreparably damage the customer relationship and overall retention rates. A high rate of delayed…

May 6, 2021·Solutions

5-step plan to enhance the productivity of your field agents

As on-demand services and gig work takes center stage, customers look for excellence in every aspect. Businesses are no longer competing on price. Acquiring and retaining customers through delightful experiences is the new battleground. If…

May 5, 2021·Solutions

Everything you need to know about delivery management technology

In the age of Amazon, are you still struggling to compress your delivery time and delight your customers? Is the process to arrange and manage deliveries turning out to be a herculean task? So what’s next. You need to find the right…

May 4, 2021·Solutions

Are your delivery drivers reaching customers on time?

Happy Customers. Revenue Growth. Quick Expansion. Do these words resonate with your delivery business goal? Let’s see how fast and far you can achieve them in the existing on-demand space. Competitive options make it easy for customers to…

Feb 4, 2021·Product

Introducing Insights—location intelligence for your business

An aggregate view of your fleet’s operations powered by location intelligence Ask any fleet owner about his biggest nightmare while managing the fleet and he will admittedly discuss the exhausting task of keeping track of the fleet's in…

Dec 11, 2020·Customers

Gig workers use location-powered Beans app for improved delivery efficiency

Palo Alto-based Beans uses proprietary data and machine learning to map the exact location of destinations like building entrances, emergency exits, and elevators in apartment complexes, hospitals, and dorms. This data is useful for public…

Dec 3, 2020·Customers

How Xpheno built trustworthy field force automation

Xpheno is a three-year-old recruitment and staffing solutions company that began using HyperTrack earlier this year. We had questions for Xpheno’s Prasadh M S about changing a slow-moving industry, building with the HyperTrack platform…

Oct 15, 2020·Product

Introducing the logistics performance Scoreboard

A single view of what’s happening today, historical averages, and key trends Beginning today, every HyperTrack user has access to the Scoreboard, an aggregate view of your location tracking app's operations. Now, at a glance, you can…

Oct 9, 2020·Customers

“We can implement the flow that we want”. Our Q&A with Goodbox

Totally customizing the delivery workflow and saving supermarkets from nightmares with 2.5 engineers. Goodbox is a Bangalore-based platform that connects supermarkets with their customers and facilitates local deliveries; they use…

Sep 21, 2020·Customers

“We just implemented it.” Our Q&A with TopServe

How to launch a food delivery app in a week, thrive as a startup founder, and pronounce the CEO’s name TopServe is a Prince Edward Island, Canada, firm that operates contactless dine-in, takeout, and restaurant delivery services. We…

Sep 17, 2020·Product

The new Nearby API: on-demand dispatch and routing just got easier

A superhero movie starring you INT. A SUPERHERO LAIR — NIGHT YOU: We’ve received the signal, Alex. Sam needs green curry. Quick, where are the deliverers? ALEX: Johnny is 4 minutes away from here, and right now, he’s on foot. Thomas and…

Sep 10, 2020·Product

September update: Nearby API, SDKs for Cordova and Ionic, partnership opportunities...

Introducing the Nearby API Supercharge on-demand routing by finding every device near a point of interest The new Nearby API locates app users on demand, figures out which ones are near a location of interest, and returns them as an…

Sep 9, 2020·Customers

“It’s made a big, big difference.” Our Q&A with Groundworks

We synced up with Partha Sarkar, Director of Software Development, to talk customer notifications, Net Promoter Score surveys, and a questionable stereotype about software developers. Groundworks, Inc. is a Virgina Beach, Virginia-based…

Aug 31, 2020·Company

Let’s move up-stack

Why HyperTrack is investing in partnerships I’ve just joined the HyperTrack team to form relationships with software developers and build integrations with platform vendors. Even though my first day was earlier this month, though, my…

Jun 24, 2020·Technology

Impact of iOS13 and iOS14 permissions on background location access

Consumers expect apps to access location while the app is in use in the foreground, be it turn-by-turn navigation, blue dot on the map, or location-based content. Users have different expectations from work apps. Field service management…

Jun 11, 2020·Solutions

5 ways to catch no-shows before they happen

No-shows are the worst nightmare for logistics fleets. No operations manager wants to spend hours in a day finding out about a no-show from the customer, and then scramble in the moment of anxiety to rescue the situation. HyperTrack has…

May 15, 2020·Solutions

Accurate distance computation using location and maps

Distance is money. For businesses on the move, distance covered by the fleet is used to reimburse fuel, pay out contractors, charge customers, and expense workers. Inaccuracies in either direction lead to friction between the payer and…

May 8, 2020·Solutions

Supply chain transformation from distribution to fulfillment

The past decade (2010-2020) witnessed a profound shift in consumer behavior for food, groceries and medicines from in-store to at-home experiences due to convenience. The global pandemic (2019-2020) caused an overnight shift from in-store…

Apr 22, 2020·Product

Introducing Playground for developers to build their live location use case

Product development teams can now build live location use cases within minutes using Playground. It brings the power of live location tracking at your fingertips. You can now control tracking of your devices from the cloud and get inline…

Apr 6, 2020·Solutions

Helping essential service fleets respond to COVID-19 worldwide

We are committed to the safety of the essential service workforces and the communities that they service. As the novel coronavirus sweeps the world, we wanted to see how the patterns of service workforces changed with government mandated…

Mar 24, 2020·Product

Live location tracking with Node.js and Python

Product development teams around the world are creating applications powered by real-time location tracking. Now these teams have the power at their fingertips, to control tracking of mobile devices from the cloud, with Node.js and Python.…

Mar 23, 2020·Product

Location history of app users as a timeline

Mobile phones have powerful sensors to log detailed information through location tracking app and know about users' movements with their permission. Replaying the location timeline as a polyline on the map makes the journey come to life.…

Mar 16, 2020·Technology

Evolution of location access on Android

In Sep 2008, Android provided developers with the ability to use GPS location with app users' permission as part of the first Android 1 (API 1). Millions of apps have been built using location-based services in creative ways since then. As…

Mar 12, 2020·Product

Live location dashboards for large field operations teams

Operations managers for large fleets require the proper tools to map their tracked assets, identify anomalies, and foster an efficient workforce. Listening to dozens of ops managers, and watching them analyze their team's location data, we…

Feb 20, 2020·Product

Build your own location tracking app in an hour

Mobile apps are driving the digital transformation of logistics. The small-sized workforce with clipboards and large-sized logistics fleets with custom handheld devices, have both moved to mobile apps alike. A modern workforce automation…

Feb 18, 2020·Product

Free 100k events per month in your developer account

Building live location apps is harder than it needs to be. From location-based services to live location API Building apps that use device location to create experiences on the same device is well solved by OS and maps. This power has been…

Dec 20, 2019·Product

Spin up your own ride-sharing app in an hour

We were encouraged when the developer community went nuts with the open-source Uber-for-X sample app built with HyperTrack in 2017. Since then, we've only seen more and more demand from ride-sharing, gig-economy, and Uber-for-X apps using…

Dec 2, 2019·Customers

A&B Courier builds asset management application with location tracking

A&B Courier, the leading courier and trucking company of Ontario, Canada, has built an in-house asset management application with HyperTrack’s live location tracking APIs. A&B Courier is a 39-year young logistics company with a significant…

Nov 27, 2019·Company

Add live location tracking to any app in minutes — and my HyperTrack story

This is a guest blog by Gavin Sherry (Co-founder and CEO of Autonomic, now a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company) who recently joined the HyperTrack Board of Directors. Prior to Autonomic, he was VP Engineering at Pivotal. Here, Gavin is seen…

Nov 25, 2019·Solutions

Digital transformation of enterprise fleets

In August 2011, Marc Andreessen wrote a guest article for the Wall Street Journal explaining Why Software Is Eating the World. At the time, I was running the digital commerce subsidiary of a leading retail conglomerate with 30,000…

Nov 18, 2019

redBus launches ridesharing with live location tracking

This is a guest blog by Phaneesh Gururaj, Vice President–B2C Engineering at redBus redBus is the world’s largest online bus ticket booking service trusted by over 20 million users. In June 2019, we launched a ridesharing service rPool…

Nov 4, 2019

Trip replay asset

Sep 30, 2019·Product

Build live location dashboards for operations managers in 3 steps

Here’s a good question to write on a Post-it Note and put on your desk: “What assets do we have right now that we’re not taking advantage of?” - Bill Walsh You can only improve what you can measure. Asset tracking opens the road to better…

Sep 27, 2019·Product

Build live location sharing for customers in 3 steps

If you can live track your $5 ride turn-by-turn, why should it be hard to track other things of value? Where’s my Ethiopian food order, or my kid’s school bus, or my prescription meds, or the 2:30 pm plumber appointment, or the same day…

Sep 9, 2019·Product

Open source sample app to track the movement history of your workforce

One of the first questions we grow up answering and then grow up to ask–“How was your day?” We built an app just for that! This sample app–built by and with HyperTrack–helps the team track our movement throughout the day. Places visited…

Aug 19, 2019·Product

Integrating with our APIs just got easier

Improved capabilities and better integration experiences are coming your way! This week, we rolled out the following updates to our APIs: 📲 Review device status Understanding the state of tracked devices is now simpler than ever. When the…

Aug 15, 2019·Product

Build live location dashboards for asset tracking with ReactJS

You can now build your own live location tracking dashboard with ReactJS. Before this, HyperTrack dashboard views were available to embed as iframes and that will continue to work. To customize your dashboard experience–swap out the map…

Jul 19, 2019·Product

Build live location sharing in your app with these open-source samples

The order is on its way. The clock is ticking. There is a diversion due to the roadblock. OMW is about to become OMG. The customer is waiting. The supervisor will make a call if it's not marked done by the scheduled time. Answering the…

Jul 11, 2019·Technology

How we built a serverless architecture with AWS

Our customers go serverless for live locations with HyperTrack. They use us as a managed service for live locations. They do not need to build and manage the servers to ingest, process, store, provision and manage anything related to the…

Jul 8, 2019·Product

New Trips API, short URLs for shared views, and dashboard live support

Today, more HyperTrack features are coming your way! Check out the details below and don’t forget to tell us what we should build to make your life easier. 💼 APIs: Create, manage, and track Trips The new Trips API is now live! You can…

Jun 13, 2019·Company

HyperTrack Culture

Culture eats strategy for breakfast - Peter Drucker We are now 15 people, between San Francisco and Ukraine, with some in transit from Bangalore to San Francisco. All team members have joined in the last 9 months, 10 joined in 2019. When…

Jun 10, 2019·Product

V3 Updates: React Native quickstarts, improved webhooks, and embeddable views

We have a lot of exciting news for you! Many asked for a React Native quickstart, improved webhooks, and embeddable views. Today, we’re delivering! 📦 React Native: Quickstarts now available You can now jumpstart your React Native…

May 28, 2019·Company

Painting the town green with HyperTrack

We use two tools as we build HyperTrack. 1. A home-grown server-less JS tool called Atlas. It chomps up a stream of location, activity and health events as JSON and spits out a map. After initial load, the JS module updates the stream in…

May 3, 2019·Product

HyperTrack V3 makes live location tracking easy for app developers

Building apps with live location tracking is harder than it needs to be. HyperTrack V3 just fixed that. “At first we thought: OS gives you GPS location, and maps give you everything else. Why do we need HyperTrack?! And now after 8 months…

Oct 4, 2018·Solutions

Reducing on-demand delivery time with activity data

On-demand delivery networks connect a three sided marketplace made of merchants, customers and delivery riders. Performance of an on-demand delivery is measured as delivery time–time taken from placing the order to delivery to the…

Aug 29, 2018·Solutions

Heartbee–a family safety app built with HyperTrack

This is a guest post written by the winners of the HyperTrack hackathon at Angelhack's San Francisco Global Hackathon in July 2018 For their Global Hackathon series, Angelhack's San Francisco hackathon focused on the theme of seamless…

Mar 22, 2018·Technology

Movement part 3 — Real-time

This is part three of a ten part series about building movement-aware applications. In the previous parts, we talked about the challenges in generating movement data from the OS and then ensuring accuracy. In this part, we will talk about…

Mar 20, 2018·Product

HyperTrack supports the new Transition API for Android Activity Recognition

Today, Android announced Activity Recognition's new Transition API. HyperTrack was amongst the few pre-release evaluation partners for the Transition API (hat tip to our friends at Life360 for making the connection). We have been testing…

Mar 12, 2018·Customers

How Trucke is moving the needle

This is a guest post by Josh Amaku, co-founder and CTO at Trucke. About Trucke Trucke is a startup reinventing the moving experience. We are disrupting the industry by applying the core principles from the on-demand economy. The company…

Feb 26, 2018·Technology

Movement part 1 — OS

This is part one of a ten part series about building movement-aware applications. Introduction This article is focused on Android and iOS when talking about the evolution from location to movement because they represent 99.7% market share…

Feb 15, 2018·Technology

Movement — Introduction

This is the introduction to a ten part series about building movement-aware applications. Mobility The mobile phone was invented so users could stay connected while on the move. And then mobile phones got smarter and staying connected…

Feb 9, 2018·Product

Uber vs HyperTrack location tracking experience

I was in an Uber the other day. I used their Share ETA feature in the app so my friend could track my ride. In parallel, I shared my live location using HyperTrack Live (iOS, Android). This is how the two experiences stacked up for my…

Jan 15, 2018·Customers

How A/C equipment provider P&T Ltd refreshed its delivery experience with HyperTrack

This is a guest post by András Takács, Development and Marketing Manager at Planning & Trading Ltd. First, some background P&T Ltd imports and distributes A/C units in Hungary (where it is the exclusive importer of the Midea brand) and…

Dec 19, 2017·Technology

HyperLog: Android Remote Logger Library for Debugging

HyperLog, a utility logger library for Android on top of standard Android Log class for debugging purpose. It is not easy to debug live mobile apps or libraries, or create every possible environment in which your end users use your app…

Dec 1, 2017·Customers

Augmento–a social path time machine built with HyperTrack

This is a guest post by Ed Arenberg. Ed built one of the top entries at the HyperTrack hackathon at API World 2017 in San Jose. Here is the demo video. Introduction Augmento is a platform for realizing a social path time machine. This…

Nov 15, 2017·Company

HyperTrack got PyConned

PyCon is the largest annual gathering for the community using and developing the open-source Python programming language. HyperTrack decided to be a part of PyCon India 17 as a Platinum sponsor. We were very excited to be a part of PyCon.…

Nov 4, 2017·Company

HyperTrack at Code-off 2017 Hackathon

Last week Hypertrack team was at IIIT Delhi as one of the main sponsors for Women Who Code’s Code-off hackathon. Around 150 students from all corners of Delhi region participated, and needless to say we had a great time mentoring the teams…

Oct 12, 2017·Solutions

Build Order Tracking with HyperTrack and Firebase

This is a guest post by Veeresh Charantimath, Android Developer at Grow Fit, and Arpit Goyal, Head of Consumer Engineering at Grow Fit. Veeresh and Arpit were the first to use HyperTrack with their Firebase app, and we felt it would be…

Sep 27, 2017·Solutions

API World 2017 Hackathon: and the winner is...

API World 2017’s Hackathon is a wrap. Jeez it was fun. 65 teams formed during the week-end. 21 teams started working on HyperTrack's challenge. 10 managed to pitch with a complete demo. Here’s a review of our top 3, starting with our…

Sep 23, 2017·Company

Come join us at API World 2017 Hackathon

We’re super excited to be sponsoring API World 2017’s hackathon. The event will take place on 23 & 24 September in Palo Alto, California. It is considered to be the largest API hackathon in the world. Why are we sponsoring it? HyperTrack…

Sep 7, 2017·Product

Releasing Ionic Native wrapper for HyperTrack

This is a guest post by Daniel Olivares At my company, we develop custom software solutions for customers, whether they need a mobile or web app for their business, or basically anything that involves technology. A large amount of the…

Aug 25, 2017·Product

Build Uber-for-X within a day using HyperTrack

Uber’s business model has given rise to a large number of Uber-for-X services. Among other things, X equals moving, parking, courier, groceries, flowers, alcohol, dog walks, massages, dry cleaning, vets, medicines, car washes, roadside…

Aug 22, 2017·Company

Drawing inspiration from LEGO

“Cogito ergo sum” (I think therefore I am) – René Descartes Humans are superior if not unique compared to other animals in our ability to imagine. We use our imagination to survive as a species and derive primal pleasure from building on…

Jul 31, 2017·Product

Build live location features in a day

What is common between a home delivery service for retailers in Paris, an address service for logistics companies in Nairobi, and a bike sharing service for commuters in Chennai? Firstly, location features are a core part of their product…

Jul 24, 2017·Technology

Creating a binding for Swift frameworks in Xamarin

Xamarin is one of the more popular platforms for developers to build apps across platforms. In our goal to make it easy for developers to integrate the HyperTrack SDK into their apps, we were looking to support the Xamarin developer…

Jul 23, 2017·Technology

Practical guide to deploying applications with AWS ECS, ALB, and ASG

If you are new to hosting applications on AWS or considering switching to AWS then this article is for you. An array of AWS services are at play to deploy your production application for the world to use. It gets difficult for a beginner…

Jul 21, 2017·Product

Mock user movement to test your location feature

App developers want to thoroughly test the happy path and exceptions in the product experience before shipping to customers. Developers need a way to mock user movement to test their live location features before releasing the app. This…

Jul 19, 2017·Product

How to detect fraudulent mock locations on Android

Ever struggled with users mocking locations in your Android apps? Mock location apps have gained popularity amongst app users on the back of Pokemon GO and an increasing number of location tracking apps. A large number of users have…

Jul 13, 2017·Customers

Using HyperTrack to simplify logistics ops at Grow Fit

This is a guest post by Jyotsna (Jo) Pattabiraman, Founder/CEO of Grow Fit, and Arpit Goyal, Head of Engineering at Grow Fit Grow Fit prevents lifestyle disease through a combination of data science, medical science, and behavioral…

Jun 12, 2017·Customers

Goibibo testing HyperTrack to power live tracking for its intercity cars platform

This is a guest post by Raj Gupta Product Manager Goibibo Goibibo offers goCars, a safe & reliable way to book intercity cars & airport transfers. As an all-encompassing platform, goCars enables users to cover their city-to-city journeys…

Jun 12, 2017·Company

Standing on the shoulders of giants

“We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more and things that are more distant than they did not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they but because they raise us up and by their great stature…

Jun 10, 2017·Technology

Real-time location tracking with near-zero battery impact

The HyperTrack SDK is active on thousands of devices through 100+ apps across the globe. Users represent all 6 inhabited continents, 2 major smartphone Operating Systems, several tracking use cases and markets, and a variety of network and…

Jun 8, 2017·Customers

Delighting the customer delight team at Zomato

This is a guest post by Pradyot Ghate, Product Lead at Zomato We are committed to delivering a simple and hassle-free online food ordering experience to our customers. The customer delight associates at Zomato are the rockstars who make…

Jun 6, 2017·Customers

Live order tracking on Golang, open sourced by RoseRocket

This is a guest post by Alex Luksidadi CTO and co-founder of RoseRocket a Y Combinator backed transportation management system for trucking. At RoseRocket we are building a modern transportation management system for trucking companies.…

May 29, 2017·Product

HyperTrack now supports the EU Galileo Navigation System via raw location values

Expanding the ways in which developers can interact with our APIs is important for us and something we take seriously. When we began discussing with the EU’s GSA about our inclusion in the Galileo Hackathon we knew that a new feature…

May 26, 2017·Company

HyperTrack and GSA Hackathon 2017 In Review

According to Wikipedia a hackathon (pronounced “hakəˌTHän”) is “a design sprint-like event in which computer programmers and others involved in software development including graphic designers interface designers project managers and…

Apr 25, 2017·Customers

Care24: Providing delightful caregiver tracking and ETA experience with HyperTrack

This is a guest post by Siddharth Sharma, CTO at Care24— India’s leading provider of home healthcare services. Care24 is a leading provider of home healthcare services in India and as we scaled our operations we found accurate tracking of…

Apr 24, 2017·Product

Build location tracking of at-home service visits in Android

Location tracking is driving forward thinking services businesses around the world to build mobile marketplaces that connect freelance and in-house service professionals with local consumers. Services like home healthcare beauty auto…

Apr 23, 2017·Solutions

Why building live location features requires more than maps APIs

The next generation of location-based services uses live location to make assignments, track orders, track miles, personalize experiences, and power great product experiences. A fleeting glimpse by product managers and developers might…

Apr 18, 2017·Technology

The pitfalls of using location streams as an interface for building live location features

Developers build live location features in their product because it is core to their business. In the process they end up having to build infrastructure. Developers who have built and operated this underlying infrastructure on their own…

Apr 5, 2017·Company

HyperTrack Participating in 2nd Annual Galileo Hackathon

Hackathons are a great opportunity for creative juices to run wild and for the next innovation to be born. Over a short period of time usually 24-28 hours participants are tasked with using a variety of technology and services and fueled…

Mar 28, 2017·Company

Live Location Sharing by Google Maps and Facebook Messenger

On Mar 22, Google announced that users of Google Maps can share their trips and real-time location with friends when on the way. Then on Mar 27, Facebook announced that users of Facebook Messenger can share their live location with friends…

Mar 23, 2017·Customers

OkHi moves their location stack to HyperTrack

Here at HyperTrack we value working with our customers to implement our plug-and-play location stack into their existing applications and workflows. It is also very fulfilling when we can come alongside them to experience firsthand their…

Feb 10, 2017·Technology

For designers who want to take over the world

This is one of the first websites I ever designed — cookfresh.in. It’s now defunct but in its glory days it was a food delivery business. Back then I wasn’t even a good enough designer to mock up pretty web pages let alone build great…

Feb 6, 2017·Company

HyperTrack — making sense of location

This is a guest post by Ashish Gupta, the newest member of our Board of Directors. Ashish is the only person we know who has been angel investor in four Indian startups that went on to become billion-dollar companies – MuSigma, MakeMyTrip…

Feb 6, 2017·Company

Why we invested in HyperTrack

This is a guest post by Arjun Malhotra, founding partner at Investopad and an early investor in HyperTrack. There are really no aspects of the business that we do not lean on Rohan and Arjun for. In this post, they share their thought…

Nov 28, 2016·Technology

Battery Efficient Real-Time GPS Tracking

One question we frequently get asked is “How real time is your tracking experience?” When we respond saying it’s near real time (~4 second latency) the follow up is “You must be collecting GPS locations very frequently; what’s the impact…

Nov 10, 2016·Technology

How we ditched HTTP and transitioned to MQTT!

In the field of location tracking, there needs to be lot of back-and-forth communication between devices and the backend. Device transmits location, activity and health data. Then the backend processes this information, applies business…

Oct 12, 2016·Product

Solution: The HyperTrack API framework

Over the past year we have interacted with thousands of developers from over 30 countries and as many industries. These conversations have helped us understand the use cases that compel developers to build location tracking features into…

Oct 12, 2016·Product

Problem: location/maps APIs are inadequate for developers to build location tracking features

Over the past year we have interacted with thousands of developers from over 30 countries and as many industries. These conversations have helped us understand the use cases that compel developers to build location tracking features into…

Sep 28, 2016·Company

How APIs make build v buy irrelevant

A traditional distinction that often comes up for users considering HyperTrack (especially business users) is–should I build location tracking in-house or outsource? The thought process then moves on to whether this is a core feature in…

Sep 25, 2016·Technology

Solving true time at HyperTrack

One of the major problems that affects the operation of real-time location tracking is patchy mobile network connectivity. Our users trust our SDKs by plugging them into their apps that are out in the big bad world. We guarantee…

Sep 19, 2016·Customers

echo tech team geeks out with location tracking

As engineers we want life to be easier than breathing. We want apps to replace unnecessary (random) human interactions bots to replace assistants even swiping left or right over the awkward effort of initiating contact the 90’s way.…

Sep 11, 2016·Technology

Our framework for real-time filtering of location streams

One of the biggest challenges with movement tracking is dealing with volatile quality of smartphone location. Numerous factors affect location accuracy such as: * Quality of GPS receiver * Source of signal (GPS, WiFi, cell tower…

Jul 15, 2016·Customers

How Scootsy uses HyperTrack while delivering the best in Mumbai

This is a guest post by Rishi Khiani, CEO and Managing Director of Antfarm— the business incubator that is home to Scootsy, a popular intra-city service that delivers from the best restaurants and stores in Mumbai. If you are in Mumbai and…

Jun 28, 2016·Customers

BIRA 91 Draft Beer – Freshly Poured with BookMyStorage and HyperTrack

This is a guest post by Anuj Krishan, Chief Operations Officer at B9 Beverages, creators of BIRA 91 draft beer. At BIRA 91 we are firm believers in using cutting edge technology to enhance consumer experience as well as make our back-end…

Jun 28, 2016·Customers

Holachef goes HyperTrack

This is a guest post by Krupa Sonecha, VP of Product at Holachef, a leading food delivery service in Mumbai and Pune. Holachef delivers food prepared from its own kitchens. “With great order numbers comes great responsibility!” – Saurabh…

Jun 28, 2016·Product

Announcing HyperTrack Beta release

GPS chips have been in leading smartphone models from the time when Apple released the App Store and Google released Android OS in 2008. Turn-by-turn navigation and the pale blue dot on the map have been a part of our lives since we…

Jun 28, 2016·Customers

How pharmacy delivery service PharmEasy is using HyperTrack

This is a guest post by Mikhil Innani co-founder of Pharmeasy a leading pharmacy delivery service for India When customers pick up prescription medicines from a pharmacy store the pharmacist verifies the prescription and hands over the…

Jun 28, 2016·Customers

How Skiwee is using HyperTrack to track service visits

This is a guest post by Surya Yalamanchi co-founder of on-demand services startup Skiwee that is about to launch in Chennai and Hyderabad in July. Find this post on the Skiwee blog too. Skiwee provides on-demand home services like…

Jun 28, 2016·Customers

Using HyperTrack to improve productivity of Toppr’s sales team

This is a guest post by Zishaan Hayath, co-founder and CEO of Toppr— an education company on a mission to personalize learning using technology. Find this post on the Toppr blog too. When you are a startup and resources are scarce your…

Jun 27, 2016·Product

Live location tracking is the other side of navigation apps

Ever wondered how many people are out and about this moment trying to get from one place to the other? How would you guesstimate the number of times they would go from one place to the other today? How many of these trips happen with a…

Jun 27, 2016·Company

Why startups are early adopters of cloud software

What factors do product teams consider when making decisions about building or buying software? I have found it to be some combination of the following. How can they launch the product and get to market quickly (time-to-market)? How can…

Jun 24, 2016·Company

Why enterprise SaaS is more like a consumer Internet business

In my past life I used to sell big software. I sold verification software to semiconductor companies for hundreds of thousands of dollars per license. It took several months of pre-sales involving navigating the customer’s organization…

Apr 28, 2016·Solutions

Using activity recognition for better ETAs and status events

In one of our previous posts we showed you the consumer experience for a task that is tracked with HyperTrack. Accurate status events are an important piece for a good user experience. In this post we take a deeper look into the data model…

Apr 14, 2016·Company

The problem with tracking

You can track your Uber until it gets to you. Once you get in the Uber your friends can track your ride until you get to them. The simple ability to track a ride seems useful. Sounds like something I should be able to do for everyone…