This Brooklyn Technologist Used iBeacons To Automatically Order Ubers And Starbucks

7/18/17

Are you ready to automate even your app use?

When Nick Lee reaches his apartment’s lobby, his phone automatically orders an Uber for him; minutes before he arrives at Starbucks, it’s already placed his order. Lee is, as he says, living in 3017.

How does it work? Lee is using iBeacons connected to the Uber and Starbucks APIs (actually he had to reverse engineer the Starbucks API) so that when he walks or drives past a certain location, his phone will work for him without him even having to take it out of his pocket.

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