Glocally

sustainable | same day | lokal

Inspiration

We are inspired by a green future with bustling, liveable inner cities where it is possible to get your goods delivered straight to your home in no time.

What it does

Our goal is to help urban retailers compete against e-commerce giants by leveraging their key competitive advantage: the proximity to their customers. By connecting urban retailers with a network of bike couriers, we offer a sustainable same day delivery service to customers who shopped online on the retailer's website and chose Glocally as their delivery option.

How we built it

E-Commerce API (for Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce,...); Automation via Integromat

Challenges we ran into

Negotiation with local bike courier services; chicken-and-egg problem of platforms; making sure our operations from delivery request to successful delivery to customer run smoothly

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Very positive feedback received during pilot project (retailer and shoppers); Participation in Start&Spread Pitch Competition; "fail fast and early"-mentality; willingness to learn from mistakes; diverse, flexible and hard-working team

What we learned

Simply doing it and testing your solution in the real world is key; there are many supportive people in this country willing to help with connections, advice etc.; a team you can rely on is very important

What's next for Glocally

Onboarding of additional retailers in Munich to our platform. Refining our software + route optimization. Then, we want to expand to various other (big) cities in Germany and scale our solution.