Dropper was an API layer for e-commerce logistics, focused on aggregating independent last-mile delivery providers in frontier markets.
Logistics is hard. It is one of those invisible systems that determines what kinds of businesses can exist. In markets with fragmented delivery networks, small merchants often have to stitch together unreliable providers manually. We wanted to make that coordination programmable.
The problem was real, but our model was not good enough. We underestimated the operational complexity, liability, and trust required to unify independent providers. I also learned how important founder-market fit is. Being interested in a problem is not the same thing as being the right person to build the company.