Airpals

Our first customer came from my personal network. A colleague shared our website with his network. I personally fulfilled the request. I pick up a hard-drive in Manhattan and Delivered in Brooklyn. The client was a photographer sending raw images to his retoucherr

Used Shopify with a bunch of integrations to provide flat rates for same-day shipping services in New York. It took me a couple of hours to put it together. When I finished I started to promote among colleagues. I also got credits at Yelp and Google Adwords to promote the services

I always wanted to build something, I was never lucky looking for jobs and really enjoyed building products from scratch. I was working at an agency for around two years, as a side hustle, I was testing startup ideas but wanted to build something unique and innovative. What I did not know is that I already built something.

I created a community of people (friends and people from the Ecuadorian community in New York) who were willing to do deliveries for the projects I managed at the agency.
I built this community a couple of months after I joined the agency, so we've been doing logistics for a while.

When COVID hit, I realized I already started something, to solve the logistics issues at my job. I did not realize the potential before COVID because like many other people I thought that a shipping company is hard to grow.

The motivation to pick this idea and further develop it came from the happened of the delivery workers for having a decent job and the happiness of the clients with the service.