HeroEx is here!
BOOM, here it is. The alpha version of HeroEx (short for Hero Express), just in time for Christmas.
HeroEx is crowdsourced local express delivery. Think: FedEx meets Amazon Mechanical Turk.
You can buy almost anything you like and we will deliver it in under 1 hour. Right now, delivery prices are $9-12. The first test market we are making this available in is San Francisco.
If you buy things online but hate waiting for days to receive them, you’re going to really like what we have in store. If you think FedEx, UPS, and USPS are way too slow, you’re right – and you shouldn’t have to put up with it.
At HeroEx, you buy items from our storefront at the price you would normally pay, plus a small fee for delivery. We’re able to keep delivery costs low because we source Delivery Heroes from the community, and we have no warehouses. Jack in the Box says, “We don’t make it til you order it,” but HeroEx says, “We don’t buy it til you order it.”
Here’s what some of our friends are saying about HeroEx:
“Weirdly neat idea!” -Philip Kaplan, Founder of Blippy, AdBrite, and Fuckedcompany
“We were just sitting in a meeting and the batteries for our wireless keyboard ran out. Who can save us? HeroEx!” -Lawrence Coburn, CEO of RateItAll
Where do you come in? Help us improve our service by making your first order – choose anything you’d like us to deliver, and tell all your friends about your new secret weapon.
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Marissa Louie, Founder and CEO of HeroEx
marissa@heroex.com
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