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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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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 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 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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…