I was the early CTO for Shipt who helped build their grocery delivery platform and engineering team. This is obviously HUGE news in the grocery delivery space. Both Instacart and Shipt will need to double down on customer service in order to continue to thrive. The Publix/Instacart partnership is BIG for them and Shipt's partnership with Meijer is helpful to them in the midwest. The biggest keys to success here going forward is extreme efficiency and laser customer focus.
1. It wasn't available in my city initially. I'm still not sure if it is. I checked fairly frequently and was never notified. That was at least a year and a half ago.
2. Applied for an iOS gig with them after they posted on HN. I've been building apps for clients for 5 years now. Never got a reply. I even followed up with their lead personally via email. Nada. Just seemed weird since they kept posting to HN asking for talent.
