Ben Alderfer

.@zipline is getting ready to overhaul our app to feel as futuristic as summoning a flying robot to your doorstep. I'm looking for an engineer to help make this a reality. Hit me up w/ the apps you've built, and I'll extend an invite to our HQ manufacturing facility in South SF.

I’ve been quiet on here because @zipline has been busy. Here’s an update:

@thecpe Try to keep up 😛

only in sf would i stop what i’m doing to do a scavenger hunt with friends if you know about this lemme know so we can join troops just unlocked one of the badges

who's a goood boy

@ryanzip no way this is how I find out

We dropped the "fly": zipline.com finally acquired

Zipline Patient Stories — Delivery #1,459,819 On the evening of March 28th at 17:00 GMT, a 4-year-old girl was playing outside her home in Gbintiri, a farming village in the north east region of Ghana, when she was bitten by a venomous snake hiding under a pile of firewood. Her parents, realizing the severity of the bite, rushed her to Gbintiri Health Center, the closest facility in the area.

❤️❤️❤️

My favorite part of a @zipline delivery is watching people’s reactions and the sheer excitement on their faces.

Zip it, don’t ship it

We quietly announced a new product today that will dramatically accelerate the rollout of autonomous delivery. A Zipping Point is like a collection mailbox. Now any business can enable autonomous delivery with no infrastructure required. You just need one of these

@ryanzip do you think the zipping point will be our tipping point?

It's time... Zipline's next big breakthrough is enabling anyone to send packages through the Zipline Network. Introducing, the Zipping Point... 1/n

Welcome to the future, Pea Ridge.

@rauchg @vercel Come hang at @zipline

Our engineering leadership team is having an offsite in San Francisco. We want to spend time with customers on-site on Sep 26. If you're using or considering @vercel and you'd like us to stop by your office to share feedback, demo to us, or simply roast us, DM or reply.

@ryanzip @KellerRinaudo brb — I think I might need to take on a side gig so I can talk with whales

Project CETI is maybe the closest thing I've seen to science fiction happening in real time on earth. They think we might be able to talk to another species (whales) with the help of ML/AI. Overview: youtube.com/watch?v=hph9Oe… MIT update yesterday: youtube.com/watch?v=VvM5QE…

@usmannk @MatthewStanciu @purduehackers @usmannk @MatthewStanciu reminds me of when we used to end BM/PH/Anvil/USB/LaunchPad meetings with this quote. Tbh our decision to fragment those organizations was probably the original sin. Thanks for the great leadership @MatthewStanciu!

@MatthewStanciu @purduehackers “at the time, the Purdue Hackers and BoilerMake folks were all the same friend group” there are now amateur historians uncovering our lore

🪐 I wrote about the long-term future of @purduehackers, why I think collegiate hackathons today are bad, and how hackathon & hacker club organizers can keep them magical after they're gone ✨ Super proud of this one. Give it a read! Link below

@_kirbyk @purduehackers @paulg @jackchammons @nworbrecneps @retttx @MatthewStanciu is the goat x.com/MatthewStanciu…

@purduehackers @paulg This is super cool CC @ben_ald @jackchammons @nworbrecneps @retttx

Thanks for the support, @paulg!

Whoa, @zipline just made the first beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) flight using onboard perception in US history. We were told a few days ago by a respected reporter they thought this wouldn’t happen for ten years and it happened two days later 😅

@steventey @zipline Vercel empowers all of our magical customer experience! Oh and we’re hiring at @zipline, full stack web dev, nextjs experience is a huge plus :) DMs are open!

1. @Zipline – building instant delivery drones flyzipline.com

We're seeing some companies on @vercel that are literally making science fiction a reality. Here are some of my favorite ones:

@PixelJanitor 👋 please reach out if you’d be interested in @zipline!

Career announcement: This is my last week at Campsite. Had a fantastic time with the team while building a bunch of amazing stuff together. After a little personal time off, I'm interested in chatting with teams about opportunities. DM's are open if you’d like to chat.