Logistics community
Moving goods where the map runs out.
Addresses are landmarks, borders add days, and the driver’s phone is the system of record. Fuel is the biggest cost line, and a truck idling at a weighbridge is money lost by the hour.
Open to every member. Join now and help shape what it builds next.
What we work on
Four problems define this community’s work right now. Every sprint, review and essay here comes back to one of them.
Route optimisation
Planning around real road conditions, border queues and delivery windows, not straight lines.
Fleet telemetry
Tracking vehicles, fuel and driver behaviour from cheap devices on unreliable networks.
Cross-border freight
Documents, customs and handovers digitised so cargo stops waiting on paper.
Driver-first apps
Mobile tools that a driver can use one-handed, offline, at the end of a long shift.
Questions we are working through
No one has settled these yet. They come up in every sprint, and members argue them out in essays and reviews.
- How do you route deliveries where addresses are landmarks and roads change with the weather?
- What is the cheapest reliable way to know where a truck is?
- How do you design for a driver who is paid by the trip, not by the hour?
Our impact
- System in Logistics we have built and shipped
- 1
Shipped in Logistics
- SafiriLogistics & Fleet · Kenya · 2023
Route optimisation and live fleet telemetry for cross-border freight, with a driver mobile app.
22% fuel cost saved1.2k vehicles tracked
From the field
No essays here yet. Members write about what actually happens on the ground, and every essay is edited before it is published. Apply to write
Your first build
New members pick one of these for their first month. Each is small enough to finish and real enough to show an employer or an investor.
A landmark geocoder
Turn descriptions like 'behind the blue church' into points on a map, learning from completed deliveries.
- Geospatial
- Search
- Data cleaning
A border-wait tracker
Estimate queue times at a border crossing from vehicle pings, and share them with dispatchers.
- Telemetry
- Time series
- Dashboards
A one-handed driver app
Proof of delivery, offline, with large targets and a photo, built for the end of a long shift.
- React Native
- Offline
- UX research
Words you will hear
New here? These come up in your first week. Plain meanings, no jargon.
- Last mile
- The final leg of a delivery, to the customer's door. Usually the most expensive part.
- Telematics
- Data sent from devices in a vehicle: location, speed, fuel and engine health.
- Proof of delivery
- Evidence that goods arrived: a signature, a photo or a code.
- Backhaul
- A load carried on the return trip, so the truck does not drive back empty.
Who you will meet
- Engineers on routing and geospatial problems
- Fleet and operations managers
- Founders in freight, last-mile and warehousing
- Mobile developers
How the community runs
- Every week
Build sprint
Bring a real problem from your work in the sector. Leave with progress, reviewed by people who have shipped the same thing.
- Every week
Office hours
Drop in with a model that will not converge, a regulator question or a hiring decision. Practitioners answer.
- Every month
Demo day
Members show working systems to the community, mentors and invited investors. Demos, not decks.
The team behind it
Lead the Logistics community
We are looking for experienced practitioners to lead this community: host one session a month, review members’ work and shape what it builds next.
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