https://www.shoffr.in/blog Writing from the team running Shoffr — service standards, our all-electric fleet, our chauffeurs, and the engineering behind it. en-IN Sat, 15 Jul 2023 03:30:00 GMT https://www.shoffr.in/blog/launch-shoffr-android-app https://www.shoffr.in/blog/launch-shoffr-android-app Sat, 15 Jul 2023 03:30:00 GMT Why we shipped Android first, why the app is a webview wrapper, and why the package name says com.shoffrDriverApp. Kislay Verma https://www.shoffr.in/blog/launch-live-car-tracking https://www.shoffr.in/blog/launch-live-car-tracking Tue, 11 Jul 2023 03:30:00 GMT How we built live vehicle tracking on OpenStreetMap and Leaflet without burning a hole in our pocket — plus the telematics push pipeline and caching layer behind it. Kislay Verma https://www.shoffr.in/blog/guest-profile-at-shoffr https://www.shoffr.in/blog/guest-profile-at-shoffr Sat, 20 May 2023 03:30:00 GMT Your Use Toll checkbox now remembers your preference. The story of how a small personalisation feature became a general-purpose profile platform by applying the Golden Rule of Platforms. Kislay Verma https://www.shoffr.in/blog/the-life-of-a-shoffr-trip https://www.shoffr.in/blog/the-life-of-a-shoffr-trip Tue, 09 May 2023 03:30:00 GMT The trip is the fundamental construct at Shoffr. Here is its full state machine — from PAYMENT_PENDING through the confirmation engine, the allocation engine, and out to COMPLETED. Kislay Verma https://www.shoffr.in/blog/shoffr-system-architecture https://www.shoffr.in/blog/shoffr-system-architecture Thu, 09 Mar 2023 03:30:00 GMT Behold the Shoffr monolith. Why one well-modularised service beat distributed systems, what we build versus buy, and how workflows keep domain services decoupled. Kislay Verma https://www.shoffr.in/blog/state-of-shoffr-tech-feb-23 https://www.shoffr.in/blog/state-of-shoffr-tech-feb-23 Wed, 15 Feb 2023 03:30:00 GMT Seven insane days: a full website redesign, trip edit, downloadable invoices, fixed pricing for cusp locations, and payment-method capture in the driver app. Kislay Verma https://www.shoffr.in/blog/launch-upcoming-ride-widget https://www.shoffr.in/blog/launch-upcoming-ride-widget Wed, 01 Feb 2023 03:30:00 GMT Logged-in guests now see their upcoming ride first thing on the home page. A small step towards a website that knows who you are and where you are in your journey. Kislay Verma https://www.shoffr.in/blog/launch-book-return-trip-along-with-onward-trip https://www.shoffr.in/blog/launch-book-return-trip-along-with-onward-trip Wed, 25 Jan 2023 03:30:00 GMT Guests can now book onward and return trips in one go. The hard parts weren't the checkbox — they were taming the booking form and rewriting order management to allow multiple trips per order. Kislay Verma https://www.shoffr.in/blog/tech-at-shoffr https://www.shoffr.in/blog/tech-at-shoffr Tue, 17 Jan 2023 03:30:00 GMT The principles we set down at Bob's Bar for how we would build the technology that powers Shoffr — buy over build, boring stacks, and hiring extremely reluctantly. Kislay Verma