https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834213
Article
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Founder building P2P package-carrying marketplace (travelers carry parcels between cities)
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Asking for cold start strategies to bootstrap supply and demand simultaneously
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Similar to Uship but peer-to-peer
Discussion
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Consensus: be one side yourself first; Uber founders drove their own cars
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Start hyperlocal — one route, one city pair, manual matching for first 20 deals
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Legal risk flagged hard: carriers could unknowingly transport drugs/fentanyl
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Andrew Chen’s Cold Start Problem book recommended repeatedly
Discuss on HN