Nice writeup. The whole "your docs site is just on a different branch" has always been weird to me though. I'm not sure what a better way to do it would be but I don't like these two options: switch branches inline or have a separate clone of the repo.
Yea, but theoretically you could set up a new remote repo just for the site, and use a specific branch for it. I think the convenience is well worth the change in process you have to deal with.
Do teams really meet with 3-5 mentors a day ? That seems way beyond the point of being useful. When do you have time to build anything or talk to users ?
It feels overwhelming at times, but it is very useful. It's at the heart of what makes TechStars an accelerator. You get instant feedback on your ideas from great mentors.
You're right that it's hard to build much during the first month. But when the first month is over, you feel very confident about what you need to do. That makes the next month and beyond incredibly productive on product and customer development.
The first 4 weeks is very intense on the business/market/sales plan side of things. It is hard to get work done, you have to squeeze it in whenever possible (night, weekends, etc). The idea is that you probably shouldn't do a ton of work before you have a solid plan in place. After that things slow down and you can focus on coding/traction.
The network is powerful. Alums are generally connected through the mentors and program directors if they aren't in the same class (the cloud class has it's own alumni weekend where the classes got to know each other well).
Thanks! We definitely plan on adding this stuff. I'd love to be able to help people easily get past the "default bootstrap" look and have some really great looking sites.
A1: Yes, you can reference them by the carrier tracking number (although you could not void/modify a shipment that wasn't created by your carrier account).
A2: Do those have a tracking number pre-printed? If so, yes. It will also work with a UPS InfoNotice or Waybill #.
A3: Yes! We have "best-effort" functionality, it will be expanded to add more complex statements, but we currently have "Send best price from X to Y within N days."
A4: Yes, if you rate is lower than ours and you are over a certain shipping threshold.
Hi all, I’m really excited to start talking about Postmaster. We are a small startup in Austin that is focused on shipping integration. With Postmaster you can be shipping packages in less than 5 minutes (from signup to your first curl against the RESTful API). You can ship/track/validate-addresses through multiple vendors, get callbacks on your shipment events, and we are working on much more. We are letting people into the beta slowly to make sure we keep response times and service levels high. Let us know if you have any shipping feature requests.
