Jst2Go
Small business courier service we developed in our college town.
Sometime summer of 2013. I met a friend that wanted to ride his bike and deliver to people. A simple idea: deliver for the places that don’t deliver. Get paid to ride your bike. A lot of people talked about it, and we did it.
I offered my help to build a website that could take an order and send a text-message to the courier because email wasn’t fast enough. I knew it was possible and it looked something like this. A form submit would activate the php like so.
This method wasn’t reliable enough due to texts not coming through in a reasonable amout of time. Eventually I learned about Twilio, and changed our system to work with their API.
This code worked for us, until it didn’t. We ran into problems with couriers going in and out of dead zones and not receiving texts in a timely manner. Something had to be improved for all our sanity.
Here enters NodeJS..
From this simple implementation of a server we built an app that gave the couriers a direct connection to the orders. At first I thought we may run into the same problems, but the only way to be sure was to build it. The app eventually found a home with React Native.
I pushed for SVG from the beginning because it gave us access to cross platforms with easy control of images.
It took a lot of hard work and tireless days to create something novel. Thank you to all the loyal customers and vendors that support Jst2Go.
I enjoyed making these vectors. The heart of the menus. Carousel created with CSS.